Derek Lewis is a retired senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. He has taught and published in the field of modern German studies, computer-assisted language learning, translation and lexicography.Ulrike Zitzlsperger is Associate Professor of German at the University of Exeter and Director of Education for Modern Languages. Her teaching and her research are based on 20th and 21st century German and European culture.

This second edition, part of the Historical Dictionaries of Europe series, contains everything one needs to know or wants to know about modern-day Germany from 1961 (building of the Berlin Wall) to the present. . . .An excellent reference work for college and university libraries.

• Editor’s Forword Jon WoronoffPrefaceAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendix A: Presidents of the Federal Republic of GermanyAppendix B: Federal ChancellorsBibliographyAbout the authors