{ Adopted: 23 May 1949 / Status: Feb 1995 }
Preamble
Conscious of their responsibility before God and men, animated
by the purpose to serve world peace as an equal part in a
unified Europe, the German People have adopted, by virtue of
their constituent power, this Constitution.
The Germans in the States of Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria,
Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower
Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony,
Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia have
achieved the unity and freedom of Germany in free
self-determination. This Constitution is thus valid for the entire
German People.