This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "German Unity Day" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
German Unity Day
The flag of unity at midnight of 3 October 1990 in front of the Reichstag
Official name
German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit
Observed by
Germany
Significance
Commemorates the German reunification in 1990
Date
3 October
Next time
3 October 2024 (2024-10-03)
Frequency
Annual
German Unity Day (German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit, pronounced[ˈtaːkdeːɐ̯ˈdɔɪ̯t͡ʃn̩ˈaɪ̯nhaɪ̯t]ⓘ) is the National Day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday.[1] It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state. German Unity Day on 3 October has been the German National Holiday since 1990, when the reunification was formally completed.
An alternative choice to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down: 9 November 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918, and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923. However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 (Kristallnacht), so the day was considered racist as a national holiday[2][3] (see 9 November in German history). Therefore, 3 October 1990, the day of the formal reunification, was chosen instead. It replaced the "German Unity Day" on 17 June, the national holiday of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1954.
^www.buzer.de – Article 3 of the Treaty of German reunification ("Einigungsvertrag")
^Kosmidou, Eleftheria Rania (2012). European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia. pp. 9–10. ISBN 1136250646
^Deutsche Welle (dw.de) (9.11.2004). Schicksalstag der Deutschen.
GermanUnityDay (German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit, pronounced [ˈtaːk deːɐ̯ ˈdɔɪ̯t͡ʃn̩ ˈaɪ̯nhaɪ̯t] ) is the National Day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October...
only the GermanUnityDay is made a holiday at present (Unity Treaty, Art. 2 sect. 2); the others, even the ones celebrated all over Germany, are made...
September 2025 (Sunday) 28 September 2025 (Sunday) 3 October 2025 (GermanUnityDay) 5 October 2025 (Sunday) 12 October 2025 (Sunday) 19 October 2025 (Sunday)...
the customary GermanUnityDay (Tag der deutschen Einheit), and has thereafter been celebrated each year as a national holiday in Germany since 1991. As...
celebrated in West Germany as a public holiday on 17 June until German reunification in 1990, after which it was replaced by GermanUnityDay, celebrated annually...
October - GermanUnityDay 31 October - Reformation Day 1 November - All Saints' Day 20 November - Repentance Day 25 December - Christmas Day 26 December...
remembrance of the November pogroms against German Jews in 1938, November 9 is a day of remembrance in Germany for the victims of Nazism — in addition to...
Music Score Library Project Singing of the German national anthem on YouTube, during the official GermanUnityDay ceremony on 3 October 1990 Daniel A. Gross...
October has been a national day of Germany since 1990, celebrated as the Tag der Deutschen Einheit (GermanUnityDay). German classical music includes works...
A national day is a day on which celebrations mark the statehood or nationhood of a state or its people. It may be the date of independence, of becoming...
falls on the 1st or the 2nd, then the festival runs until 3 October (GermanUnityDay). Thus, the festival now runs for 17 days when the first Sunday is...
President of the German Federal Council is 4th in the German order of precedence. In addition, the main celebration of GermanUnityDay is traditionally...
Day may refer to: Unification Day (Bulgaria) Unification Day (Cameroon) GermanUnityDay Unification Day (Italy) Union Day (Myanmar) Great Union Day (Romania)...
Foundation DayGermanUnityDay: unification of West Germany and East Germany and the foundation of the modern German state, 1990 Statehood Day (Lithuania):...
Animals Independence Day (Guinea) October 3 Gaecheonjeol (South Korea) GermanUnityDay (Germany) National Day (Iraq) Morazán Day (Honduras) October 4...
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in Great Britain...
any film of 2016 in the country. The film continued to benefit from GermanUnityDay on October 3. It went on to top the box office there for three straight...
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, pronounced [zotsi̯aˈlɪstɪʃə ˈʔaɪnhaɪtspaʁˌtaɪ ˈdɔʏtʃlants] ;...
German artist Philipp Geist organized a projection mapping installation named Gate of Words at the Azadi Tower, on the occasion of the GermanUnity Day...
An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part...
Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, GermanUnityDay, First Christmas Day, and Second Christmas Day (Boxing Day). CSU received 38.8%...
located in Bottrop, Germany, on top of the mine dump Halde Beckstraße and serves as the town's landmark. It was opened on GermanUnityDay 3 October 1995....
he was again a member of the German Parliament for the AfD. He attracted public attention with a speech on GermanUnityDay on 3 October 2003. He set out...
the US), founding or unification (e.g. GermanUnityDay), the commemoration of a revolution (e.g. Bastille Day in France) or liberation (e.g. 9 May in...
Unification Day in Cameroon National UnityDay in Georgia — April 9 GermanUnityDay — October 3 National UnityDay in Hungary — June 4 National UnityDay in India...
Global Information
Germany