List of wars involving Germany

This is a list of wars involving Germany since unification in 1871.

See also: Military history of Germany

German Empire (1871–1918)
See also: German Empire
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Reichskanzler German losses
Franco-German War
(1870–1871)		  Germany France Victory
Otto von Bismarck
28,208 dead[1]
First Samoan Civil War
(1886–1894)		 Supporters of Laupepa
 Germany		 Supporters of Mata'afa Compromise
16 dead[2]
Abushiri Revolt
(1888–1889)		  Germany
 United Kingdom		 Arab Rebels led by al-Harthi Victory
  • Rebellion put down
?
Hehe Rebellion
(1891–1898)		  Germany Hehe Victory
  • Rebellion put down
Leo von Caprivi
?
Bafut Wars
(1891–1907)		  Germany Fondom of Bafut Victory
?
Second Samoan Civil War
(1898–1899)		 Supporters of Mata'afa
 Germany		 Supporters of Tanumafili I
 United States
 United Kingdom		 Compromise
Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
?
Boxer Rebellion
(1899–1901)		 Russia
Japan
United Kingdom
France
 United States
Germany
 Austria-Hungary
Italy		 Yihetuan Movement
 China		 Victory
?
Adamawa Campaign
(1902)		  Germany Fulani Victory
Bernhard von Bülow
?
Venezuelan Crisis
(1902–1903)		  United Kingdom
 Germany
 Italy		 Venezuela Compromise
  • Venezuelan debt dispute resolved
?
Herero Wars
(1904–1908)		  Germany Herero
Namaqua		 Victory
1,541 dead[3]
Maji Maji Rebellion
(1905–1908)		  Germany Qadiriyya Brotherhood
Matumbi
Ngoni
Yao		 Victory
  • Rebellion put down
397 dead[4]
Sokehs Rebellion
(1910–1911)		  Germany Sokehs tribe Victory
  • Rebellion put down
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
5 dead[5]
World War I
(1914–1918)		  Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria		 France
 United Kingdom
 Russia
 United States
 Italy
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Belgium
 Romania
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil
Nepal
 Japan
 China
 Siam
Hejaz
 Russian SFSR		 Defeat
2,198,420 to
2,800,720 dead[6]

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
See also: Weimar Republic
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Reichskanzler German losses
German Revolution
(1918–1919)		 Germany Revolutionaries Government victory
Friedrich Ebert
?
Greater Poland Uprising
(1918–1919)		 Germany POW Defeat
?
First Silesian Uprising
(1919)		  Germany POW-GS Victory
  • German forces crush uprising
Gustav Bauer
?
Ruhr Uprising
(1920)		  Germany Ruhr Red Army Government victory
  • Uprising crushed
1,600+
(Both combatants)
Second Silesian Uprising
(1920)		  Germany POW-GS League of Nations ceasefire
  • Order restored by allied intervention
Constantin Fehrenbach
?
Third Silesian Uprising
(1921)		  Germany POW-GS League of Nations ceasefire
Joseph Wirth
?

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
See also: Nazi Germany
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Führer German losses
Spanish Civil War
(1936–1939)		 Spanish Nationalists
 Italy
 Germany
Portugal		 Spanish Republicans
International Brigades		 Victory
Adolf Hitler
~300 killed[7]
Sudeten German Uprising
(1938)		  Germany
Freikorps Sudetenland		  Czechoslovakia Victory
?
World War II
(1939–1945)		  Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Slovakia
 Croatia
 Finland
 Thailand		  Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
 China
 France
 Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Denmark
 Norway
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
 Ethiopia
 Brazil
 Mexico
 Colombia
Cuba
Nepal
Philippines
Mongolia		 Defeat
6,900,000 to
7,400,000 dead[8]

Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present)
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Bundeskanzler German losses
Bosnian War
(1995)		  NATO  Republika Srpska Victory
  • Dayton Accords
Helmut Kohl
None
Kosovo War
(1999)		  NATO

UÇK

  FR Yugoslavia Victory
  • Kumanovo Treaty
  • Yugoslav security forces pull out of Kosovo
  • United Nations Resolution 1244
Gerhard Schröder
None
War in Afghanistan
(2001–present)		  Afghanistan
ISAF 		Taliban
al-Qaeda		 Ongoing
57 dead[9]
War on ISIL
(2015–)		  Iraq
 Iraqi Kurdistan
Northern Syria
CJTF–OIR 		ISIL
al-Qaeda		 Ongoing
  • Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliates positions in Iraq and Syria
  • Wave of Terror in Europe
Angela Merkel
See below[10]
Mali War
(2017–present)		  Mali
MINUSMA 		al-Qaeda Ongoing
  • German deployment to defend peacekeepers
2 dead[11]
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References
  1. Howard, M. (1991). The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870–1871. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26671-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Hempestall & Mochida, p. 54
  3. Bridgman, Jon M. (1966) Revolt of the Hereros University of California Press. p. 164 (KIA: 676, MIA:76, WIA: 907, died from disease: 689, civilians: 100)
  4. Gellately, Robert; Ben Kiernan (2003). The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Published by Cambridge University Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-521-52750-3.
  5. Van der Vat, Dan. Gentlemen of War, The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Müller and the SMS Emden. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1984, p. 19
  6. See World War I casualties
  7. Thomas, Hugh (2003) [1961, 1987, 2001]. The Spanish Civil War. London: Penguin. p. 634. ISBN 0-14-101161-0. OCLC 248799351.
  8. See World War II casualties
  9. "Operation Enduring Freedom". iCasualties.org. 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
  10. No German soldiers have been killed by ISIS, however, many German civilians have been killed in terror attacks claimed by ISIS. For details, see Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present).
  11. "German military helicopter crashes in Mali, two peacekeepers killed". 26 July 2017 – via www.reuters.com.
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