The first federal elections were held in Germany on 3 March 1871. The National Liberal Party emerged as the largest party in the Reichstag , with 117 of …

The German Empire was proclaimed on January 18, 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles in the aftermath of the 1871 Franco-Prussian War. ... Despite its rather authoritarian nature, the German political system is very much designed in favor of multi-party coalitions, who secure a majority for the Kaiser's Chancellor, thereby ...

Oct 14, 2021 · The Kaiserreich, 1871–1914. Political authority: the extent and make-up of the German Empire in 1871; the 1871 constitution; the role of Emperor and Chancellor; political groupings and parties and their ideologies ... after Adenauer and coalition governments under the three party system; the search for consensus ; Extra-parliamentary ...

Introduction The post Cold War reunification of Germany in 1990 seemed such a natural consequence of the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Soviet power in Eastern Europe that it is easy to forget that Germany had a fairly brief life span as a unified nation-state. Germany only unified as recently as 1871, when Wilhelm I became the leader of the German Empire following …