List of wars involving Germany

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

• German Empire (1871–1918)
• Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
• Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
• Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present)

German Empire (1871–1918)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	Reichskanzler	German losses
Franco-German War (1870–1871)	Germany	France	Victory Treaty of Frankfurt	Otto von Bismarck	28,208 dead[1]
First Samoan Civil War (1886–1894)	Supporters of Laupepa  Germany	Supporters of Mata'afa	Compromise Malietoa Laupepa restored to power		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 Exile of the Fon of Bafut		?
Second Samoan Civil War (1898–1899)	Supporters of Mata'afa  Germany	Supporters of Tanumafili I  United States  United Kingdom	Compromise Tripartite Convention	Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst	?
Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)	Russia Japan United Kingdom France  United States Germany  Austria-Hungary Italy	Yihetuan Movement  China	Victory Signing of the Boxer Protocol Provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing		?
Adamawa Campaign (1902)	Germany	Sokoto Caliphate	Victory German rule in Kamerun solidified	Bernhard von Bülow	?
Venezuelan Crisis (1902–1903)	United Kingdom  Germany  Italy	Venezuela	Compromise Venezuelan debt dispute resolved		?
Kavango Uprising[3] (1903)	German Empire	Kavango rebels	Victory Uprising suppressed		?
Herero Wars (1904–1908)	Germany	Herero Namaqua	Victory Herero and Namaqua genocide		1,541 dead[4]
Maji Maji Rebellion (1905–1908)	Germany	Qadiriyya Brotherhood Matumbi Ngoni Yao	Victory Rebellion put down		397 dead[5]
Adamawa Rebellion (1907)	Germany	Mahdist rebels	Victory Rebellion put down		?
Sokehs Rebellion (1910–1911)	Germany	Sokehs tribe	Victory Rebellion put down	Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg	5 dead[6]
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 End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations		2,198,420 to 2,800,720 dead[7]

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	Reichskanzler	German losses
German Revolution (1918–1919)	Germany	Revolutionaries	Government victory Establishment of the Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert	?
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)	Germany	POW	Defeat Poland gains Greater Poland		?
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 Parts of Upper Silesia ceded to Poland	Joseph Wirth	?

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	Führer	German losses
Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)	Spanish Nationalists  Italy  Germany Portugal	Spanish Republicans International Brigades	Victory End of the Second Spanish Republic	Adolf Hitler	~300 killed[8]
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  Ethiopia  Brazil  Mexico  Colombia Cuba Nepal Philippines Mongolia	Defeat Collapse of Nazi Germany Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War		6,900,000 to 7,400,000 dead[9]

Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	Bundeskanzler	German losses
Bosnian War (1995)	NATO  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Germany  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  Spain  Turkey  United Kingdom  United States	Republika Srpska	Victory Dayton Accords	Helmut Kohl	None
Kosovo War (1999)	NATO  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Germany  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  Spain  Turkey  United Kingdom  United States UÇK	FR Yugoslavia	Both sides claimed victory Kumanovo Treaty Yugoslav security forces pull out of Kosovo United Nations Resolution 1244	Gerhard Schröder	None
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)	Afghanistan ISAF  United States  United Kingdom  Australia  Canada  Germany  France  Italy  Czech Republic  Netherlands  Turkey  Romania  Georgia  South Korea  Poland  Denmark  Sweden  Norway Others	Taliban al-Qaeda	Ongoing Fall of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Establishment of new Afghan government War in North-West Pakistan		57 dead[10]
War on ISIL (2015–)	Iraq  Iraqi Kurdistan Northern Syria CJTF–OIR  United States  Canada  United Kingdom  France  Germany  Turkey  Saudi Arabia  Qatar  Jordan  Bahrain  United Arab Emirates  Morocco  Australia  Netherlands  Belgium  Denmark  Norway	ISIL al-Qaeda	Ongoing Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliates positions in Iraq and Syria Islamic terrorism in Europe	Angela Merkel	See below[11]
Mali War (2017–present)	Mali MINUSMA  France ECOWAS  Chad  Germany  Netherlands  Sweden	al-Qaeda	Ongoing German deployment to defend peacekeepers		2 dead[12]

References

1. Howard, M. (1991). The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870–1871. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26671-8.
2. Hempestall & Mochida, p. 54
4. 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)
5. 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.
6. 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
7. See World War I casualties
8. Thomas, Hugh (2003) [1961, 1987, 2001]. The Spanish Civil War. London: Penguin. p. 634. ISBN 0-14-101161-0. OCLC 248799351.
9. See World War II casualties
10. "Operation Enduring Freedom". iCasualties.org. 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
11. 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.
12. "German military helicopter crashes in Mali, two peacekeepers killed". 26 July 2017 – via www.reuters.com.