Politics, Government & Administration

Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung (Press and Information Office of the Federal Government)

Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellory)

Bundespräsident (Federal President - Constitutional Head of State)

Bundesregierung (Federal Government)

Bundestag (Federal Parliament)

Bundesrat (Federal Second Chamber)

Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Ministry)

Bundesministerium des Innern (Interior Ministry)

Bundesministerium der Justiz (Ministry of Justice)

Bundesministerium der Finanzen (Ministry of Finance)

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (Ministry of Economics and Labour)

Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (Ministry of Defence)

Bundesamt für Verfassungschutz (Office for the defence of the Federal Constitution: Monitors and reports on the activities of extremist political parties and groups in Germany)

Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Office of Statistics - production and publication of all official statistics)

Das Grundgesetz (in German)

The Basic Law (in English) http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/gm00000_.html

 

 

Major political parties (Main political website and parliamentary party website)

CDU (Christian Democratic Union) http://www.cdu.de/ / http://www.cducsu.bundestag.de/

CSU (Christian Social Union) http://www.csu.de/ / http://www.cducsu.bundestag.de/

Die Grünen (Green Party) http://www.gruene.de/ / http://www.gruene-fraktion.de/

SPD (Social Democratic Party) http://www.spd.de/ /http://www.spdfrak.de/

PDS (Socialist Party) http://www.pds-online.de/

FDP (Liberal Party) http://www.liberale.de/ / http://www.liberale.de/fdp-fraktion//

 

 

Universities and Research in Germany

Association of Universities and Higher Education institutions (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz)

Links to all German Higher Education institutions and information and statistics on German Higher Education

Links to all major German research institutes & foundations

 

Associations for the Study of German Politics and Society

Assocation for the Study of German Politics

Association for Modern German Studies

Women in German Studies

 

Other relevant associations

The University Association of Contemporary European Studies

European Consortium for Political Research

 

 

German Embassy, London

Goethe-Institut, London

 

 

Resources and Archives

Federal Archives online

Documentation and information on German Reunification

 

 

German Search engines

http://www.web.de/

http://www.gmx.de/

http://www.google.de/

http://www.yahoo.de/

 

 

Newspapers and News Magazines

Magazine published in English & German providing thematic coverage of current social, economic, political and cultural issues

Die Süddeutsche Zeitung

Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Die Welt

Die Tageszeitung

Handelsblatt

Stern

Der Spiegel

Die Zeit

Focus

 

TV and Radio News etc.

http://www.tagesschau.de/

http://www.dw-world.de/

http://www.ard.de/

http://www.zdf.de/