I am a practising Catholic and regularly attend the Church of St Joseph and the Immaculate Conception. I was appointed a Foundation Governor by the Diocese in 2012 and currently also sit on the Finance, Premises & Health & Safety Committee.
Germany was created after the world war 1 when they had to rebuild they named it Germany.
The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire. There is little agreement as to when it was founded. Most German historians date the foundation from the coronation of Otto I in 962. That 'empire' had a continuous existence till 1806. The Second Reich was created by Bismarck in 1871 and lasted till 1918.