ABSTRACT

Before the reunification (‘Wiedervereinigung’) of Germany on 3.10.1990,1 the following eleven ‘Länder’ were constituent member states of the ‘Bund’:

– Baden-Württemberg;2

– Bayern (Bavaria); – Berlin; – Bremen; – Hamburg; – Hessen; – Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony); – Nordrhein-Westfalen (Northrhein-Westphalia); – Rheinland-Pfalz (Rheinland-Palatinate); – Saarland; – Schleswig-Holstein.