On this day, 76 years ago, on May 10, 1949 (April 13, 1949 lunar calendar), Germany was divided into two parts: East and West. On May 10, 1949, the ruling body of Western Germany, with the consent of the authorities of the Western occupying powers, announced the establishment of the region as the Federal Republic of Germany, with Bonn as the capital. On the 23rd, the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany was officially adopted. In mid-August, elections to the Bundestag were held, and in September a joint session of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat was held. Theodore Hughes, a Liberal Democrat, was elected as the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany. On September 15, a federal government was formed with Konrad Adenauer, the chairperson of the Christian Democratic Union, as the federal chancellor. On the 20th, the first federal government of the Federal Republic of Germany was officially established. The next day, the three occupied territories of the United States, Britain and France announced their merger. Before and after this process, the Soviet-occupied areas of Germany also underwent profound changes. As early as October 1945, the Soviet occupation authorities had transferred their power to local authorities at all levels in eastern Germany. In 1946, the German Communist Party merged with the Social Democratic Party in eastern Germany to officially form the United Socialist Party of Germany. The United Socialist Party quickly took a dominant position in the eastern German political institutions. On October 7, 1949, the German People's Committee held its 9th meeting and adopted the "Declaration of the National Front of the Democratic Germany" formulated by the United Socialist Party, which put forward the program of the German people for the reunification of the motherland and called for the establishment of a unified German Democratic Republic. On the same day, the Council of People's Commissars also passed a resolution to establish a "Provisional People's House" and to form a "Government of the German Democratic Republic", and the resolution entrusted Otto Grotiwald to organize a provisional government of the German Democratic Republic. A few days later, William Pique became President of the German Democratic Republic, and the Soviet government issued a statement announcing the formal transfer of all executive power in eastern Germany to the German Democratic Republic. At this point, Germany was divided into two sovereign states, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The division of Germany was a major international event after World War II, an important part of the Abbott System, and a direct consequence of the confrontation between the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective groups of states.