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The '''Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft''' was the German State Railway Company between [[1920]] and [[1945]]. It was created from the railways of the individual states of the [[German Empire]] following the end of the [[World War I|First World War]]. Between [[1938]] and [[1945]] the DRG also incorporated the ''Bundesbahn Österreich'' (BBÖ), the Federal Railway of Austria.

Following the defeat of [[Nazi Germany]] the German lines of the DRG were divided between the '''Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR)''' (''German State Railway'', the railway of the [[German Democratic Republic]]) and the '''Deutsche Bundesbahnen (DB)''' (''German Federal Railways'', the railways of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]]). Following the [[reunification of Germany]] in [[1990]], after several years of reconnecting the two networks, the two State railways were formally reunited in [[1994]] to create the current German Railway Corporation ('''Deutsche Bahn AG (DBAG)''').