West Germany or West Germany was the unofficial name with which the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) was known since its foundation on May 23, 1949, until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and reunification German in October 1990. From 1949, West Germany became a capitalist country with an economy oriented towards the "social market" (die Soziale Marktwirtschaft) and also had a democratic parliamentary government.
