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German Autonomous Driving Act
The German Autonomous Driving Act (Gesetz zum autonomen Fahren) is a 2021 federal law permitting driverless Level 4 vehicles in regular public road transport across Germany.
German Autumn
The German Autumn (Deutscher Herbst) was the 1977 crisis in West Germany when the Red Army Faction kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer and Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa airliner.
German battleship Bismarck
The German battleship Bismarck was a Kriegsmarine battleship that sank HMS Hood at the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941, then was sunk by the Royal Navy on 27 May.
German battleship Gneisenau
The German battleship Gneisenau was a Scharnhorst-class Kriegsmarine capital ship, commissioned in 1938, that sank HMS Glorious in 1940 and operated with her sister Scharnhorst.
German battleship Scharnhorst
Scharnhorst was a German battleship, lead ship of her class, commissioned in 1939 and sunk at the Battle of North Cape with only 36 survivors of 1,968 aboard.
German Coal Commission
The German Coal Commission, formally the Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment (Kommission "Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung"), advised the German government on phasing out coal power.
German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee
The German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, called a pocket battleship, sank nine Allied merchant ships in 1939 before being scuttled off Montevideo after the Battle of the River Plate.
German cruiser Admiral Hipper
The German cruiser Admiral Hipper, lead ship of her class, served in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and sank seven ships of convoy SLS.64.
German cruiser Admiral Scheer
The German cruiser Admiral Scheer, a Deutschland-class pocket battleship commissioned in 1934, is best known for her 1940–41 Atlantic raiding cruise, which sank 113,223 tons of shipping.
German cruiser Blücher
The German cruiser Blücher, also known as DKM Blücher, was a heavy cruiser sunk by Norwegian guns and torpedoes in the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940 while leading the force to capture Oslo.
German cruiser Deutschland
The German cruiser Deutschland, a German pocket battleship renamed Lützow in 1939, was commissioned in 1933, raided Atlantic commerce, and was sunk as a Soviet target in 1947.
German cruiser Prinz Eugen
Prinz Eugen, a German heavy cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, was built in 1938 and survived the war, later serving in US atomic bomb tests.
German Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation
The German Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (Bundesstelle für Seeunfalluntersuchung, BSU) is Germany's independent federal authority, based in Hamburg, that investigates marine casualties for safety without apportioning blame.
German identity card
The German identity card (Personalausweis) is the official national identity document issued to German citizens, in credit-card format since 2010 with a contactless chip enabling online identification.
German keyboard layout
The German keyboard layout is a QWERTZ layout standard in Germany and Austria, defined by DIN 2137, with dedicated keys for ä, ö, ü, and ß.
German locomotive numbering and classification
German locomotive numbering and classification, also known as the DRG renumbering plan, is the system German state railways use to assign class and running numbers to locomotives.
German military rifles
German military rifles are the standard shoulder weapons of Germany's armed forces from 1898 to today, from the Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k to the G3, G36, and G95.
German nuclear phase-out
The German nuclear phase-out was Germany's legally mandated exit from nuclear power, agreed in 2000 and completed on 15 April 2023 with the last three plants' shutdown.
German passport
The German passport (deutscher Reisepass) is the travel document issued to German citizens, a biometric electronic passport produced by the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin since 2005.
German Road Traffic Regulations
The German Road Traffic Regulations (Straßenverkehrs-Ordnung, StVO) is the German federal ordinance setting rules of behavior for all public road users, including speed limits, right of way, and traffic signs.
German Space Operations Center
The German Space Operations Center (GSOC), Germany's national spacecraft control center at DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen site near Munich, has operated satellites and crewed missions, including the ISS Columbus laboratory, since 1969.
German submarine U-110 (1940)
German submarine U-110 was a Type IXB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine, captured by the Royal Navy on 9 May 1941 while attacking convoy OB 318, with her Enigma machine and codebooks aboard.
German submarine U-234
German submarine U-234 was a large Type XB minelayer of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, rebuilt as a long-range cargo submarine bound for Japan.
German submarine U-47 (1938)
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, commanded by Günther Prien, best known for sinking HMS Royal Oak inside Scapa Flow in October 1939.
German submarine U-534
German submarine U-534 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine, sunk by British aircraft in the Kattegat on 5 May 1945 and raised in 1993.
German submarine U-571
German submarine U-571 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, sunk with all 52 hands in the North Atlantic on 28 January 1944.
German submarine U-96 (1940)
U-96 was a German Type VIIC submarine of the Second World War, built in Kiel and commissioned in 1940, which sank 27 ships and became famous as the setting of Das Boot.
German tanks in World War II
German tanks in World War II were the Wehrmacht's armored fighting vehicles, from the Panzer I and II through the Panzer III and IV to the Tiger and Panther.
German Train Drivers' Union
The German Train Drivers' Union (Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer), founded in 1867, is Germany's oldest occupational union, representing most locomotive drivers and known for strikes that won it an independent collective agreement in 2008.
German training ship Gorch Fock (1958)
The Gorch Fock is the sail training ship of the German Navy, a three-masted steel barque built in 1958 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg to train officer candidates.