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Senate of Berlin, the Glossary

The Senate of Berlin (Senat von Berlin; unofficially: Berliner Senat) is the executive body governing the city of Berlin, which at the same time is a state of Germany.^[1]

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Government of Berlin

Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin

The of Berlin (House of Deputies) is the state parliament (Landtag) of Berlin, Germany according to the city-state's constitution. Senate of Berlin and Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin are government of Berlin and Organisations based in Berlin.

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Allied Kommandatura

The Allied Kommandatura, or often just Kommandatura, also known as the Alliierte Kommandantur in German, was the governing body for the city of Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War II.

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Alt-Berlin

Alt-Berlin ("Old Berlin"), also spelled Altberlin, is a neighborhood (Stadtviertel), situated in the Berliner locality (Ortsteil) of Mitte, part of the homonymous borough.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

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Boroughs and neighborhoods of Berlin

Berlin is both a city and one of Germany's federated states (city state).

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Bremen (state)

Bremen, officially the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen; Free Hansestadt Bremen), is the smallest and least populous of Germany's 16 states.

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Bundestag

The Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament and the lower of two federal chambers, opposed to the upper chamber, the Bundesrat.

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Cansel Kiziltepe

Cansel Kiziltepe (born 8 October 1975) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister (''Senator'') for Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023.

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Cölln

Cölln was the twin city of Old Berlin (Altberlin) from the 13th century to the 18th century.

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Christian Democratic Union of Germany

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands; CDU) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany.

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Christian Gaebler

Christian Gaebler (8 December 1964) is a German politician (SPD).

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City-state

A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.

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Der Tagesspiegel

(meaning The Daily Mirror) is a German daily newspaper.

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Divide and rule

Divide and rule policy (divide et impera), or divide and conquer, in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power divisively.

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Dorotheenstadt

is a historic zone or neighbourhood (Stadtviertel) of central Berlin, Germany, which forms part of the locality (Ortsteil) of Mitte within the borough (Bezirk) also called Mitte.

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East Berlin

East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Ernst Reuter

Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Four Power Agreement on Berlin

The Four Power Agreement on Berlin, also known as the Berlin Agreement or the Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, was agreed on 3 September 1971 by the four wartime Allied powers, represented by their ambassadors.

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Franziska Giffey

Franziska Giffey (Süllke, born 3 May 1978) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who is serving as Berlin State Senator for Economy, Energy and Enterprise since 2023.

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Frederick I of Prussia

Frederick I (Friedrich I.; 11 July 1657 – 25 February 1713), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was (as Frederick III) Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union (Brandenburg-Prussia).

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Free State of Prussia

The Free State of Prussia (Freistaat Preußen) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1947.

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Friedrichstadt (Berlin)

Friedrichstadt was an independent suburb of Berlin, and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself.

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Friedrichswerder

Friedrichswerder is a neighborhood (Stadtviertel), situated in the Berliner locality (Ortsteil) of Mitte, part of the homonymous borough.

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German Bundesrat

The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder (federated states) of Germany at the federal level (German: Bundesebene).

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German reunification

German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.

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German town law

The German town law (Deutsches Stadtrecht) or German municipal concerns (Deutsches Städtewesen) was a set of early town privileges based on the Magdeburg rights developed by Otto I. The Magdeburg law became the inspiration for regional town charters not only in Germany, but also in Central and Eastern Europe who modified it during the Middle Ages.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Governing Mayor of Berlin

The governing mayor (Regierender Bürgermeister) of Berlin is the head of government, presiding over the Berlin Senate.

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Greater Berlin Act

The Greater Berlin Act (Groß-Berlin-Gesetz), officially Law Regarding the Creation of the New Municipality of Berlin (Gesetz über die Bildung einer neuen Stadtgemeinde Berlin), was a law passed by the Prussian state government in 1920, which greatly expanded the size of the Prussian and German capital of Berlin. Senate of Berlin and Greater Berlin Act are government of Berlin.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Heinrich Sahm

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm (12 September 1877 – 3 October 1939) was a German lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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Iris Spranger

Iris Spranger (born 19 September 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as Senator for Interior, Digitalisation and Sport in the Berlin state government since December 2021.

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Joe Chialo

Joseph Chialo (born 1970) is a German music manager, politician (CDU) and singer of Tanzanian descent who has been serving as State Minister (''Senator'') for Culture and Social Cohesion in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023.

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Julius Lippert

Julius Lippert (9 July 1895 – 30 June 1956) was a German Nazi Party politician who served as the Staatskommissar (State Commissioner) for Berlin from 1933 to 1937 and as its Oberbürgermeister and Stadtspräsident (City President) from 1937 to 1940.

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Kai Wegner

Kai Wegner (born 15 September 1972) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Governing Mayor of Berlin since April 2023.

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Katharina Günther-Wünsch

Katharina Günther-Wünsch (born April 3, 1983, in Dresden) is a German politician.

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Louise Schroeder

Louise Dorothea Schroeder (2 April 1887 in Altona (Elbe) – 4 June 1957 in Berlin) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) party.

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Margraviate of Brandenburg

The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Otto Ostrowski

Otto Ostrowski (28 January 1883 in Spremberg – 16 June 1963 in Knokke, Belgium) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Mayor of Berlin in 1946–1947.

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Primus inter pares

Primus inter pares is a Latin phrase meaning first among equals.

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Prussian Reform Movement

The Prussian Reform Movement was a series of constitutional, administrative, social, and economic reforms early in 19th-century Prussia.

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Rathaus Schöneberg

Rathaus Schöneberg is the city hall for the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany.

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Rotes Rathaus

The Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) is the town hall of Berlin, Germany, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz.

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Schöneberg

Schöneberg is a locality of Berlin, Germany.

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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.

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The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands,; SED) was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Berlin

Also known as Berlin Senate, Berliner Senat, Government of Berlin, Senat von Berlin.

, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Soviet occupation zone in Germany, States of Germany, Stefan Evers, West Berlin.

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