The Bundesrat (German for 'Federal Council') was the highest legislative body in the German Empire (1871–1918). Its members were appointed by the governments...

four German states south of the River Main. It renamed the country to Deutsches Reich (conventionally translated to 'German Empire') and gave the Prussian...

When the Confederation was transformed and renamed Deutsches Reich (German Empire) in 1871, the Bundesrat kept its name. Whilst appointed by state governments...

Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification...

presiding over the Bundesrat (Federal Council), the representative organ of the states (which together with the Reichstag was the Reich's lawmaking body)...

the members of the Reich government could submit motions; in this respect, it differed from the former Bundesrat, in which the Reich government had no...

1933. Even though the National Assembly chose to retain the old name Deutsches Reich (Art. 1 of the Constitution), hardly anyone used it during the Weimar...

Bavaria and Württemberg joined the confederation. It was renamed Deutsches Reich (German Empire), and the constitution of the confederation, with few...

new constitution, and the name of the federal state was changed to Deutsches Reich (German Empire). According to a minority among German experts, the...

previous monarchy, Deutsches Reich (German Reich, hence the usage of the Reich in the name of the railway; the monarchical term was Deutsches Kaiserreich),...