page_title: History of Germany since 1990
section_title: Five new states
hierarchical_section_title: History of Germany since 1990 / Chancellorship of Helmut Kohl in a reunited Germany (1990–1998) / Five new states
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Vorsitzender des DDR-Ministerrates Hans Modrow, Bundesministerin für innerdeutsche Beziehungen Dorothee Wilms, Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl und der Regierende Bürgermeister Walter Momper (West-Berlin) während der Öffnung des Brandenburger Tores am 22. Dezember 1989. Im Hintergrund zwischen Kohl und Momper der Oberbürgermeister Erhard Krack (Ost-Berlin); vor Momper dessen Tochter Friederike. Rechts daneben: Walter Scheel, Otto Graf Lambsdorff und Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Original caption East German President Hans Modrow, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and West and East BERLIN Mayors Moper [sic] and Giczy [sic] take part in the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate.
context_page_description: The history of Germany since 1990 spans the period following the Reunification of Germany, when West Germany and East Germany were reunited after being divided during the Cold War. Germany after 1990 is referred to by historians as the Berlin Republic. This time period is also determined by the ongoing process of the "inner reunification" of the formerly divided country.
context_section_description: On October 3, 1990, the German Democratic Republic was dissolved, five states were recreated (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia) and the new states became part of the Federal Republic of Germany, an event known as the German Reunification.
  Elections for new state parliaments were held in the five states on October 14, and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany became the largest party in all states except Brandenburg, where the Social Democratic Party of Germany became the largest party.
  The reunified Berlin became the capital of Germany on October 3, although the government continued to have its seat in Bonn until 1999. December 2 marks the first elections for the city parliament after reunification.
caption: Helmut Kohl after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
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