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
