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- When Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, the Nazi regime misused the first verse - "Deutschland über alles" - to emphasize what they saw as Germany's superiority to all other nations. That's why the Allies prohibited the public singing of the "Lied der Deutschen" after they vanquished Nazi Germany to bring World War II to an end in 1945.
www.dw.com/en/the-german-national-anthem-and-its-pitfalls/a-40102655The German national anthem and its pitfalls – DW – 09/06/2023
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Oct 25, 2024 · The tune of the German national anthem was composed in 1796 by Austrian Joseph Haydn and was first performed in 1797 for the birthday of Holy Roman emperor Francis II; it was called “Kaiserhymne” (“Emperor’s Hymn”).
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A few months after the reunification of Germany in 1990, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl made the express decision in 1991 that only the third verse would be used as the national anthem. As a result, only this verse is specially protected as an official national symbol and a constitutional principle. Unli...
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben composed the Deutschlandlied (“Song of the Germans”) in 1841 on the island of Heligoland, which was British at that time. At this time in history, the German-speaking world was made up of numerous individual states, some of them large and some smaller in size. Von Fallersleben was opposed to this fragmentat...
Haydn’s “Song of the Germans” was frequently sung during the revolutionary years of 1848/1849 as a way of showing support for a united Germany, but it then increasingly fell into oblivion. It was subsequently revived as the national anthem in 1922 during the Weimar Republic, at the instigation of Reich President Friedrich Ebert. Since the words app...
Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote the melody in 1796/97 for Francis II, Emperor of Austria and Hungary. Originally composed as the anthem Gott erhalte Franz, den Kaiser in praise of the emperor, it was sung as the imperial anthem in Austria up until the end of the empire in 1867, with the words differing depending on the emperor.
The "Deutschlandlied" was adopted as the national anthem of Germany in 1922, during the Weimar Republic, to which all three stanzas were used. West Germany retained it as its official national anthem in 1952, with only the third stanza sung on official occasions.
May 2, 2022 · Created in the 19th century, the "Deutschlandlied" was sullied by the Nazis. Germany decided 70 years ago it would adopt only the third verse of the original song as its national anthem.
Part of this song is the national anthem of Germany (German National Anthem). A line from this song, "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" ("Unity and Justice and Freedom") is the considered to be the unofficial motto of Germany. The music was written by Haydn in 1797 as the personal anthem of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Aug 26, 2016 · August Heinrich Hoffmann (1798-1874) wrote the text of what is now the German national anthem - known as the Song of Germany - 175 years ago, on August 26, 1841. Using the pseudonym...
Federal President Theodor Heuss and Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer agreed in an exchange of correspondence in 1952 that “the Hoffmann-Haydn song” should be “recognised as the national anthem” of the young Federal Republic of Germany and that the third verse should be sung at state events.
