Question: In which German federal State is this city, where Gerhard Westerburg was born, found?
Context: The North German Confederation (German: "Norddeutscher Bund" ) was the German federal state which existed from July 1867 to December 1870.  Some historians also use the name for the alliance of 22 German states formed on 18 August 1866 ("Augustbündnis ").  In 1870–1871, the south German states of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Württemberg and Bavaria joined the country.  On 1 January 1871, the country received a new constitution that gave it the name "German Empire" but largely remained the same, which is why the North German Confederation continues as the German nation state which still exists today. Gerhard Westerburg (Cologne c.1490 – 1558 in Dykhausen, Sande, Lower Saxony) was a German jurist and Anabaptist theologian.  He published various pamphlets related to the Reformation in Cologne. The 8th Cabinet of the German federal state of Thuringia, formed on December 5th, 2014, is the first cabinet of a German federal state being led by a politician of The Left.  A so-called "red-red-green coalition", it is coalition of Die Linke, the SPD, and the Greens, and is headed by Bodo Ramelow.  CDU|AfD serve as the government's opposition in the Landtag, which consists of 91 members. Cologne ( ; German: "Köln" , ] , Colognian: "Kölle" ] ) is the largest city in the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-largest city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).  It is located within the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the major European metropolitan areas, and with more than ten million inhabitants, the largest in Germany.  Cologne is about 45 km southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia's capital of Dusseldorf and 25 km northwest of Bonn. The "German" Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP [/'zœp/ ], for "Sozio-oekonomisches Panel") is a longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany.  It is a household based study which started in 1984 and which reinterviews adult household members annually.  Additional samples have been taken of East Germans (from 1990, coincident with reunification) and immigrants (in 1994) as well as in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006.  In 2007, there will be about 12,000 households, and more than 20,000 adult persons sampled.  Some of the many topics surveyed include household composition, occupation, employment, earnings, health and life satisfaction.  The annual surveys are conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).  The survey is funded by the German Federal Government and the State of Berlin via the «Bund-Länder-Kommission» (State/Federal State Commission) for Educational Planning and Research Promotion. The term Lesser Germany (German: "Kleindeutschland", in opposition to 'Greater Germany') relates essentially to Germany without Austria.  In the 19th century, a part of the Austrian Empire belonged to the German Confederation.  In the revolutionary era of 1848-1850, it was discussed whether Austria or a part of Austria could belong to a new German federal state.  In 1867-1871, the 'Lesser Germany' became reality: a federal state under leadership of Prussia and without Austria.  After that, the term lost its significance because since then 'Germany' is usually identified as this Lesser Germany. Die Urbane.  Eine HipHop Partei (The Urbans.  A HipHop Party) is a German political party founded in Berlin in February 2017 which locate themselves within the Hip hop culture.  The main goals of the party include first and foremost social justice; their self-proclaimed goal is to achieve equality among all citizens.  During the German federal election in September 24, 2017, they are among the parties listed in the federal state of Berlin. The Constitution of the German Confederation (German: "Verfassung des Deutschen Bundes", or "Novemberverfassung") was the constitution of the German federal state at the beginning of the year 1871.  It was enacted on January 1, 1871.  This is a slightly changed version of the Constitution of the North German confederation; it is not to be confused with the constitutional laws of the German Confederation of 1815. Federal prince (German: "Bundesfürsten" , "Princes of the Federation") was the generic term for the royal heads of state (monarchs) of the various states making up the German Empire, with the exception of the states that were republics and Alsace-Lorraine which had a special status.  The empire was a federal state, with its constituent states remaining sovereign states.  Among the states, the majority were monarchies, 3 states were republics and Alsace-Lorraine was an imperial territory ruled by a steward.  The states became part of the German Empire by an 1871 treaty.  The head of the empire was granted the title German Emperor (with the title "Emperor of Germany" being deliberately avoided), and was simultaneously a federal prince as King of Prussia, the sovereign of its largest federal state.  Of the princely heads of state, 4 held the title King (König) (the Kings of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, and Württemberg), 6 held the title Grand Duke (Großherzog), 5 held the title Duke (Herzog), and 7 held the title Prince (i.e. Sovereign Prince, "Fürst").  The heads of state of the city republics, where the concepts of nobility and royalty did not exist, were of equal standing to the federal princes and held the titles First Mayor and President of the Senate (Hamburg), Mayor and President of the Senate (Lübeck), and President of the Senate and Mayor (Bremen).  The heads of state of the city republics were regarded as primi inter pares among the senators according to the states' republican constitutions, and these states were ruled by an oligarchy of hereditary Grand Burghers, also known as Hanseaten or patricians. Jürgen Klimke (born 2 July 1948, in Hamburg) is a German politician and member of the conservative party CDU - Christian Democratic Union of Germany (German: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands).  From 1982 to 2002 he was member of the Parliament of the Free and Federal State of Hamburg (German: Hamburgische Bürgerschaft).  Between 2002 and 2017, he represented Hamburg in the German Federal Parliament (the Bundestag).
Answer: North Rhine-Westphalia