German Chronological Jurisdictions

Confederation of the Rhein, 1806 - 1815 (Rheinbundakte) German Confederation, 1815-1848 / 1850-1866, a loose confederation of 39 states (Deutscher Bund)

Northern German Confederation, 1866-1871 (Norddeutscher Bund)

Members of the German Empire, 1871 Anhalt | Baden | Bayern | Braunschweig | Bremen | Elsass-Lothringen | Hamburg | Hessen | Lippe | Lubeck | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Oldenburg | Preussen | Reuss altere linie | Reuss jungerer linie | Sachsen | Saxe-Altenburg | Saxe-Coburg und Gotha | Saxe-Meiningen | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Schaumburg-Lippe | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | Waldeck-Pyrmont | Wuerttemberg

Early to 1918 (Kingdoms, Duchies, Principalities, Free Cities, etc.) Anhalt | Baden | Bayern | Braunschweig | Bremen | Elsass-Lothringen | Hamburg | Hessen | Lippe | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Oldenburg | Preussen (Prussia) | Sachsen | Schaumburg-Lippe | Thuringen | Waldeck | Wuerttemberg

1918 to 1945/1949 (Weimar Republic to 1933, Third Reich to the end) note: Thuringen was formed when Reuss, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen merged in 1920.) Anhalt  | Baden | Bayern | Braunschweig | Bremen | Hamburg | Hannover | Hessen | Lubeck | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Oldenburg | Preussen | Saxe-Coburg (to 1920 - to Bayern) | Sachsen | Schaumburg-Lippe | Thuringen (from 1920) | Waldeck-Pyrmont | Wuerttemberg

1949/1957 to 1990 Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany) Baden-Wuerttemberg | Bayern | Bremen | Hamburg | Hessen | Rheinland-Pfalz | Niedersachsen | NordRhein-Westfalen | Saarland, Germany (1957) | Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | West Berlin, Germany

1949 to 1990 Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
note: rather than the old names, the 15 Bezirks (districts) were around the named cities. Cottbus | Dresden | East Berlin | Erfurt | Frankfurt (Oder) | Gera | Halle | Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz until 1953) | Leipzig | Magdeburg | Neubrandenburg | Potsdam | Rostock | Schwerin | Suhl

1990 German Reunfication:
Baden-Wuerttemberg | Bayern | Berlin | Brandenburg | Bremen | Hamburg | Hessen | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Niedersachsen | NordRhein-Westfalen | Rheinland-Pfalz | Saarland | Sachsen | Sachsen-Anhalt | Schleswig-Holstein | Thuringen