198. Which present-day German Land (federal state) formerly belonged to the territory of the GDR (German Democratic Republic)?

Answer options

1. Bavaria
2. Lower Saxony
3. Saxony
4. Baden-Württemberg

Explanation

The territory of the GDR comprised the Länder reconstituted in 1990—Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia—as well as East Berlin. The GDR had abolished the Länder in 1952 in favor of districts; under the Law on the Re-establishment of the Länder (22 July 1990) and the Unification Treaty, the re-established Länder acceded to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990 pursuant to former Article 23 of the Basic Law. This extended the Basic Law’s federal order to the accession territory while preserving constitutional and legal continuity. Among the options, Saxony is the state that belonged to the GDR.