GermanyAufgabe 40 · Politics in a democracy

With which words does the German national anthem begin?

In the exam (German)

Mit welchen Worten beginnt die deutsche Nationalhymne?

  1. aVölker, hört die Signale … (Peoples, hear the signals …)Völker, hört die Signale …
  2. bEinigkeit und Recht und Freiheit … (Unity and justice and freedom …)Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit …Correct answer
  3. cFreude schöner Götterfunken … (Joy, beautiful spark of the gods …)Freude schöner Götterfunken …
  4. dDeutschland einig Vaterland … (Germany, united fatherland …)Deutschland einig Vaterland …

Why?

The national anthem is the third verse of the “Song of the Germans” (Lied der Deutschen) by Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1841); the melody is by Joseph Haydn. It begins with “Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit” (Unity and justice and freedom). “Freude schöner Götterfunken” comes from Schiller's poem “Ode to Joy” (An die Freude); Beethoven's melody for it is today the European anthem. “Völker, hört die Signale” comes from the Internationale, and “Deutschland einig Vaterland” from the anthem of the GDR (DDR).

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Questions and options: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Gesamtfragenkatalog for the “Leben in Deutschland” test and the Einbürgerungstest, as of 07.05.2025 (Annex 1 to the Einbürgerungstestverordnung). The English translation and the explanations are ours, written with AI; in the exam the questions are asked in German. The coats of arms, flags and photos come from Wikimedia Commons, the maps and ballot papers are drawn by us – authors and licences are listed under Image credits. This is not a government service.

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