German Soviet Socialist Republic

German Soviet Socialist Republic Deutsche Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik (German) Германская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Arbeiter aller Länder: Vereinigt euch! "Workers of the world, unite!"
Anthem: Auferstanden aus Ruinen
Capital and	Berlin
Official languages	Russian German
Religion	Secularism
Demonym(s)	German, Soviet, German Soviet
Government	Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party Soviet socialist republic
• Prime Minister	Kevin Kühnert
• First Secretary of the Communist Party of Germany	Saskia Esken
Legislature	Supreme Soviet
History  History of communist rule & Soviet occupation.
• GDR established	7 October 1949
• Warsaw Pact	14 May 1955
• Integration into the Soviet Union	27 September 1955
• Reunification	21 August 1973
• Independence from the Soviet Union	27 October 1987
• Soviet invasion & reintegration	September-August 1994
• 2000 New Union Treaty	31 December 1999
• Current constitution	25 February 2016
Area
•	357,600 km2 (138,100 sq mi)
Population
• 2023 census	84,607,016
HDI	0.893 very high
Currency	Soviet Ruble (SUR)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Date format	CE, mm/dd/yyyy
Driving side	"right"
Calling code	+7
ISO 3166 code	SU
Internet TLD	.su

The German Soviet Socialist Republic (German: Deutsche Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik; Russian: Германская Советская Социалистическая Республика), abbreviated as the German SSR, GerSSR and also known as Soviet Germany or just Germany, is one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union. Under the Soviet one-party model it is governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through it's republican branch, the Communist Party of Germany.

Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its 16 constituent oblasts have a total population of over 84 million in an area of 357,600 km2 (138,100 sq mi). It borders Denmark, the Polish SSR, Czechoslovakian SSR, the Austrian SSR,Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin.

Settlement in Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic area, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic age onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. Following the Napoleonic Wars and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the German Confederation was formed in 1815.

Formal unification of Germany into the modern nation commenced on 18 August 1866 with the establishing of the Prussian-led North German Confederation which later became the German Empire in 1871. After World War I, the Empire was in transformed into the Weimar Republic. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to the establishment of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust. After the end of World War II in Europe and a period of Allied occupation, in 1949, Germany as a whole was organized into two separate entities with limited sovereignty: the Federal Republic of Germany, generally known as West Germany, and the German Democratic Republic, known as East Germany, while Berlin continued its de jure Four Power status. The Federal Republic of Germany was a founding member of the European Economic Community and the European Union, while the German Democratic Republic was a communist Eastern Bloc state and member of the Warsaw Pact.

In 1955, the same year that the Warsaw Pact was created, the Soviet Union under a new administration led by Anastas Mikoyan issued out ultimatums to all of the nations of the Warsaw Pact, the ultimatiums demanded for total integration into the Soviet Union in return for guarenteed economic aid and political stability. East Germany was one of the first nations to accept the ultimatum, officially joining the Soviet Union and became a Soviet republic on the 27th of September 1955. Over the years, West Germany's population saw the changes that came to East Berlin after the integration, and became more alligned with socialist ideals. After the rise of the Oil Crisis, West Germany underwent a revolution which installed a communist regime, eventually joined the Soviet Union and reunified with the German SSR.

Etymology

The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from Deutsch, descended from Old High German diutisc'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the common people from Latin and its Neo-Latin descendants.

History

Germanic Tribes & Roman Empire

Main article: [[:Germania]]

The Germanic people are believed to originate from around the Nordic Bronze Age. From Northern Germany, they expanded in all directions and also came into contact with other tribes from other peoples.

Under Augustus, the Roman Empire began to invade lands inhabited by the Germanic tribes, creating the Roman province of Germania Antiqua between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers. In 9 AD, three Roman legions were defeated in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest by Chieftan Arminius. The battle causes the Romans to loose interest in conquering all of Germania. By 100 AD, when Tacitus wrote Germania, Germanic tribes had settled along the Rhine and the Danube, occupying most of modern Germany. However, Baden-Württemberg, southern Bavaria, southern Hesse and the western Rhineland had been incorporated into Roman provinces.

Around 260, Germanic peoples broke into Roman-controlled lands. After the invasion of the Huns in 375, and with the decline of Rome from 395, Germanic tribes moved farther southwest: the Franks established the Frankish Kingdom and pushed east. and areas of what is today eastern Germany were inhabited by Western Slavic tribes.

Holy Roman Empire

Main article: [[:Holy Roman Empire]]