The 1963 Strasbourg Convention on Single Nationality Movement: The German Experience
The 1963 Strasbourg Convention on Single Nationality Movement: The German Experience

Summary/Abstract: The Council of Europe’s Convention on Nationality affirmed the establishment of the international principle against multiple allegiances. Germany’s convergence to the 1963 European standard is marked as an important phase in its citizenship legislation. Since then, the single nationality principle has been formally accepted in its legal and judicial institutions. This principle remains unchanged in Germany up to the twenty-first century, even though other European states are converging upon a new principle that is more tolerant on the issue of dual nationality. This article suggests that Germany’s aversion to dual nationality is mainly shaped during the period between 1955 and 1974.

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