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Germany now allows its citizens to acquire the citizenship of other EU countries without losing their German citizenship. For how long has this been the case?

Karl Wilhem
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Since 28. August 2007, where in Section 25 (1) sentence 2 StAG was added.

§ 25 Abs. 1 Satz 2 StAG
Der Verlust nach Satz 1 tritt nicht ein, wenn ein Deutscher die Staatsangehörigkeit eines anderen Mitgliedstaates der Europäischen Union, der Schweiz oder eines Staates erwirbt, mit dem die Bundesrepublik Deutschland einen völkerrechtlichen Vertrag nach § 12 Abs. 3 abgeschlossen hat.

Section 25 (1) sentence 2 StAG
The loss under sentence 1 does not arise if a German acquires the citizenship of another member state of the European Union, Switzerland or a state with which the Federal Republic of Germany has concluded a contract under international law pursuant to § 12 (3).

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Mark Johnson
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    Do you know of a list of countries with which there exists such contracts. – mic Dec 06 '19 at 14:57
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    @mic Based on the pdf from this link (dated September 2013) there are none. https://www.bundestag.de/blob/459010/2ef43910c45e17204fb056e3d2537507/wd-3-162-13-pdf-data.pdf – Mark Johnson Dec 06 '19 at 15:14