Capital of Germany

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The Capital of Germany is currently Berlin.

[edit] In history

[edit] Pre-1871

Up until 1871, Germany was no unified nation state, and had no capital. Already the Medieval Holy Roman Empire of which parts evolved into modern Germany had had no capital, considering itself rather as a confederation of varied territories of which some were German while others were not.

After the Congress of Vienna created the formal German Confederation in 1815, a Federal Assembly convened at the Free City of Frankfurt, representing not the people of the individual German Lands but their sovereigns. Subsequently, Frankfurt briefly became the official German capital during the short-lived Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.

[edit] Since 1871

It was only during the 1871 Unification of Germany that the unified nation state of the German Empire first was assigned an official capital. With Prussia as the dominant part of the unified Germany, its capital Berlin was chosen, and remained so until the end of World War II. However, for a period of a few months following the First World War, the national assembly met in Weimar instead due to civil war ravaging Berlin. In 1945, Germany was occupied by the Allies as the outcome of WWII, and Berlin only remained a capital de jure.

In 1949, with sovereignty regained the country split up into West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), with the capital of Bonn, and East Germany (German Democratic Republic), with the capital of East Berlin. In 1990, the unified Berlin became the capital of the unified Federal Republic of Germany per the unification treaty, while Bonn remained the seat of government until 1999.