Federal Germans

Federal German is a name for everything that concerns the Federal Republic of Germany and its German citizens. They are used in common parlance, in the media and among others in official writings as terminus.

In the years before the accession of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 led to these designations clear verbal distinction to " DDR German " and of the " GDR citizens ". They were not anchored in language use exclusively in the GDR; in the GDR, the abbreviation " Bundi " for the residents of West Germany was next to " Westerner " colloquial use.

In the historical context, by contrast, the term " Reich German " or kingdom citizens ( citizens of the German Empire ) of the epoch from 1871 to 1945. Particular, the Germans who lived outside of the realm, so were not citizens of the Reich, so named the Germans within the Reich.

In the other German -speaking countries ( Austria, German Switzerland, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, eastern Belgium, etc. ) of the Federal German term is used to refer to the language spoken in Germany Standard German before and after reunification. It is used as a distinction from the Austrian German and Swiss Standard German, but also in part - on the modern media conveys - perceived as a threat to the Austrian and Swiss idiom. As an adjective called " German nation " everything else ( objects, people, ideas ), which originates from Germany.