Berlin House of Representatives

The Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin is the state parliament for the State of Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, on January 11, 1991, the House of Representatives elected the first Senate responsible for governing all of Berlin. On June 20 in Bonn, the German Bundestag decided to move the seat of the German government and parliament to Berlin, Germany’s new capital. That same year, Berlin’s governing mayor and Senate Chancellery moved from Schöneberg Town Hall to the Berlin Town Hall (“Red Town Hall”) in the Mitte borough. Since 1993 the House of Representatives, Berlin’s state parliament, has had its seat in the building once occupied by the Prussian State Parliament. In 1994, American, British, French and Russian troops bade farewell to the people of Berlin. Berlin’s constitution was approved on October 22, 1995 and slowly the federal government made preparations to come
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