Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
As an example, the famous or notorious Paragraph 175, which formerly made male homosexuality a crime in Germany, would most properly be cited in an English-language text as "§ 175 StGB (Germany)". "§" simply denotes "paragraph" (and can be pluralized as "§§"). "StGB" stands for "Strafgesetzbuch" (penal code); other similar usages would be "BGB" ("Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch", the Civil Code) and "ZPO" ("Zivilprozessordnung", the Civil Procedure Code). Paragraphs with the same number from these different codes are completely unrelated; thus, § 175 ZPO has nothing to do with § 175 StGB.