State · 1990 – present
Germany
A state of 1990 – present — 36 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced East Germany, Prussia and West Germany and 2 more. The atlas records 23 things within it — unrest and atrocity 4 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 4 · treaties 5 · people 7 · works and ideas 2. Its line of rulers holds 9 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 36 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 9
- the president of Germany
- Most ground
- 359,300 km²
- in 1991
- Within it
- 23
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 7
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- German Reich · replaces · 1871 – 1949
- East Germany · replaces · 1949 – 1990
- Trizone · replaces
- West Germany · replaces · 1949 – 1990
- Prussia · replaces · 1525 – 1933
Rulers
The line of president of Germany - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard von Weizsäcker | 1984 – 1994 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Roman Herzog | 1994 – 1999 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Johannes Rau | 1999 – 2004 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Horst Köhler | 2004 – 2010 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Jens Böhrnsen | 2010 – 2010 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Christian Wulff | 2010 – 2012 | 2 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Horst Seehofer | 2012 – 2012 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Joachim Gauck | 2012 – 2017 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Frank-Walter Steinmeier | 2017 – in office | in office since 2017 | still in office |
9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1984 – 2017. Only 33 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 8 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.88, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Federal Chancellor of Germany, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Helmut Kohl | 1982 – 1998 |
| Gerhard Schröder | 1998 – 2005 |
| Angela Merkel | 2005 – 2021 |
| Olaf Scholz | 2021 – 2025 |
| Friedrich Merz | 2025 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
359,300 km² in 1995, 359,300 km² in 2020; at its largest 359,300 km² in 1995. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Germany_(1867%E2%80%931918).svg.png)
flag, 1867 – 1918Flag of Germany (1867–1918) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Germany_(3-2).svg.png)
flag, 1919 – 1933Flag of Germany (3-2) · Public domain flag, 1933 – 1935Flag of Germany (1867–1918) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Germany_(1935%E2%80%931945).svg.png)
flag, 1935 – 1945Flag of Germany (1935–1945) · Public domain .svg/120px-Merchant_flag_of_Germany_(1946%E2%80%931949).svg.png)
flag, 1947 – 1949Merchant flag of Germany (1946–1949) · Public domain 
flag, from 1949Flag of Germany · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1950Coat of arms of Germany · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199913 rows
- Darmstadtium · discovery · 1994
- Roentgenium · discovery · 1994
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier · ruler · 1956 – present
- Joachim Gauck · ruler · 1940 – present
- Horst Köhler · ruler · 1943 – 2025
- Christian Wulff · ruler · 1959 – present
- Johannes Rau · ruler · 1931 – 2006
- Roman Herzog · ruler · 1934 – 2017
and 5 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209910 rows · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2016 Berlin truck attack · atrocity · 2016
- COVID-19 pandemic in Germany · plague · 2020
- 2022 German coup d'état plot · unrest · 2022
- 2002 European floods · disaster · 2002
- Aachen Treaty · treaty · 2019
- 2022 Oder environmental disaster · disaster · 2022
- Cyclone Xaver · disaster · 2013
- National Socialist Underground murders · atrocity · 2000
and 2 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood36 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held359,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 68% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 49 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1980 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1991, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q183 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.