Spectators view the first session of the new Bundesrat in the city of Bonn from an exterior stand at the Bundeshaus , September 7th 1949.
Ferdinand Kirchhof, judge and vice-president at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Wolfgang Schaeuble,...
Paulina Jenninger , widow of late parliament speaker Philipp Jenninger, is accompanied by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Michael Mueller...
The President of the Bundesrat and mayor of Berlin Michael Mueller, the bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany Ilse Junkermann, the...
Peter Muller, president of German Bundesrat, Lady Quentyn Bryce, wife of Australia's governor-general Quentin Bryce, French president Nicolas...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, First Lady Elke Buedenbender, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Bundestag President Norbert Lammert, Bundesrat...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere clap in...
German new president Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks as President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert holds the German Constitution during his...
The President of Germany's Bundestag Norbert Lammert, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the German Bundesrat Malu Dreyer, the President...
The President of Germany's Bundestag Norbert Lammert, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the German Bundesrat Malu Dreyer and the...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with MP Guido Westerwelle prior to the first hearings over reforming Germany's federal system, at a joint...
Stanislaw Tillich, president of the Bundesrat , Andreas Vosskuhle, president of the German Federal Constitutional Court, German Chancellor Angela...
Volker Beck, Member of German Greens Party and Anton Hofreiter, co-leader of the Bundestag fraction of the German Greens Party and activists with the...
Berlin's Integration Senator Dilek Kolat poses with activists with the Lesbian and Gay Association of Berlin demonstrate outside the Bundesrat,...
Bundestag President Baerbel Bas embraces journalist Marcel Reif, who lost relatives to the Holocaust, after he spoke at the Bundestag during a...
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit speaks with Gabriele and Susanna Herwig, who are lesbian, in a legal partnership, and have two children, and were joining...
Gabriele and Susanna Herwig, who are lesbian and in a legal partnership, and one of their two children hold a sign that reads: "Two Women Two...
Susanna Herwig, who is lesbian and in a legal partnership with another woman, and her one and three-year-old children join protesters demanding equal...
German Federal Constitutional Court President Stephan Harbarth, Bundestag President Baerbel Bas, Israeli Knesset President Mickey Levy, German...
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands speaks at a session of the Bundesrat in his honour on July 06, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Their Royal...
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands stand with the heads of Germany's 16 states at a session of the Bundesrat in their honour...
Sex workers protest near the Bundesrat against coronavirus lockdown measures that prevent them from returning to work on July 03, 2020 in Berlin,...
President of the Bundesrat Reiner Haseloff, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend a final roll call...
German Federal Constitutional Court President Stephan Harbarth, the President of the Federal Council Bundesrat and State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt...
Pedestrians pass through the atrium of the Mall of Berlin near the Bundesrat federal council building in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, Jan. 27,...
Sex workers hold placards during a protest to demand the reopening of brothels amid the new coronavirus pandemic on July 3, 2020 near the Bundesrat...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel , the President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schaeuble , the current President of the Bundesrat and Brandenburg's state...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schaeuble, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the current president...
Activists wear masks of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz as they protest against the...
New German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , outgoing Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen , Michael Mueller, who is both mayor of...
New German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , outgoing Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen , Michael Mueller, who is both mayor of...
New German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer receives an embrace from outgoing Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen at the appointment...
Newly elected European Commission President and outgoing German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen sits next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Newly elected European Commission President and outgoing German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen sits next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
The vice-president of the Bundesrat Michael Mueller, the new German Defence Minister and leader of the CDU party Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer...
The leader of the CDU party and newly-appointed Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, her predecessor Ursula von der Leyen and German...
The leader of the CDU party and newly-appointed Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, her predecessor Ursula von der Leyen and German...
The leader of the CDU party and newly-appointed Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, her predecessor Ursula von der Leyen and German...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Buedenbender pose with German Chancellor Angela Merkel , the President of the Bundestag...
Christian Wulff, German Christian Democrat and Governor of Lower Saxony, attends a session of the Bundesrat, the German Federal Council, on June 4,...
Plenary session of the German Bundesrat is pictured in Berlin on April 22, 2021. - The controversial law amendment to curb the coronavirus pandemic...
The newly elected members of the Federal Council, Albert Rosti , and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider, , are greeted by their new colleagues, , Chancellor...
Police officers man a temporary barrier set up across the main building of the German Bundesrat during a plenary session in Berlin on April 22, 2021....
General view taken at the start of the 1000th session of the upper house of Parliament, the Bundesrat in Berlin, February 12, 2021.
Outside view taken on on February 12, 2021 in Berlin, shows the Bundesrat building, housing the upper house of Parliament, with a banner reading...
General view taken as German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech on the occasion of the 1000th session of the upper house of...
German Army for NATO Delayed. Bonn, West Germany: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany talks with Reinhold Maier, minister president of...
Awaits Appointment. Bonn, West Germany: Dr. Konrad Adenauer leader of the Christian Democrats, sits at his desk in his residence near Bonn. He will...
Bonn, Germany: Police clear the street for the arrival of members of the Upper House of the New West German Republic on Sept. 7 as they convened for...
The German Bundesrat, or Federal Council, stands illuminated on October 7, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The Bundesrat represents Germany's 16 Laender, or...
Bundesrat sign is seen on August 24, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Germany is carefully lifting lockdown measures nationwide in an attempt to raise...
Plenary session of the German Bundesrat is pictured in Berlin on April 22, 2021. - The controversial law amendment to curb the coronavirus pandemic...
Feierstunde zum 50. Jahrestag der Konstituierenden Sitzung des Deutschen Bundestages und des Bundesrates: Blick in den Plenarsaal des Reichstags -...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to the swearing-in ceremony of new German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a common session of the...