Prepared with the assistance of Nicola Mathieson. Europe in the 21st century: Power, Leadership and Crisis GERMAN LEADERSHIP TODAY By Michael Pearce SC.

Prepared with the assistance of Nicola Mathieson.

Europe in the 21st century: Power, Leadership and Crisis

GERMAN LEADERSHIP TODAYBy

Michael Pearce SCHonorary Consul-General for Germany in

Melbourne

The Holy Roman Empire: forerunner to the European Union?

Source: http://cobalt.rocky.edu/~jordan.baker/titlepage.html

Bismarck Reich 1870

Source:http://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/Germany342/342-3Week01.html

Weimar Republic

Source: http://wmmbb.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/weimar-republic-lessons/

Defeated, ruined, occupied, shamed

http://thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/arbeit_macht_fr.html

West and East Germany 1949

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East-West-Germany-October_1949-July_1952.svg

Germany today: 16 Länder

Source: http://www.germany-insider-facts.com/german-states.html

The Reichstag

Source: http://www.viator.com/photos/Berlin/Reichstag/d488-625/1346125

Angela Merkel

Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/angela-merkel-issues-bailout-warning-1129510

Joachim Gauck

Source: http://www.bundespraesident.de/EN/TheGermanFederalPresidents/JoachimGauck/Joachim-Gauck-node.html

Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Source: http://thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/arbeit_macht_fr.html

Fritz Stern

“To seek freedom in defiance of the state is not part of the German tradition, as it is of the English, Dutch, French and American

traditions.”

Stern, Fritz. "Freedom and its Discontents". Foreign Affairs 72, no. 4 (1993): 108-125. www.jstor.org

Life in the East

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006)

Source: http://www.thatfilmguy.net/the-lives-of-others-2006/

Green Germany

Source: http://windturbinezone.com/wind-technology/wind-farms

Source: http://keepingupwiththecotes.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/german-idiosyncrasies-second-edition.html

The modern face of Germany

Philipp Rösler: Heart surgeon and Federal Minister for Health

Source: http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2009/11/german-embassy-heads-search-for-vietnamese-german-ministers-roots.html

German leadership: Adenauer and Kohl

Konrad Adenauer Helmut KohlSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F078072-0004,_Konrad_Adenauer.jpg http://www.andydobson.net/german_history/helmut_kohl.htm

Johannes Gross

“The word ‘Realpolitik’ has been lost in the German language and will no longer be needed; it lives on in other languages as a foreign expression. In place of it we urgently need the word ‘Moralpolitik’ in

order to label that which we, out of responsibility, refrain from doing.”

“Notizbuch Johannes Gross. Neueste Folge”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, Feb 26 1993 p 10.

A united Germany, a unified Europe

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/09/portugal-eu-imf-aid