After German organisations had been dissolved by the Allies in 1947, in 1950 the IOC recognized the reorganized
Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland for all of Germany, based in (West) Germany. Due to the
Cold War, an East German state (
German Democratic Republic) was created in October 1949, and a separate National Olympic Committee (NOC) for East Germany was established in 1951. It was not immediately recognized by the IOC, which until 1965 required that athletes of the NOC of East Germany join the German team represented by the West Germany-based NOC of Germany. This team, which competed together from 1956 to 1964, is nowadays called the
United Team of Germany (
EUA, "Equipe Unifiée Allemande"), but was Germany (
GER) then. As a result of Germany being divided, from 1968 to 1990 two independent teams competed in each of the Games; the original designations were
GER for the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and
GDR for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). In 1980 the West German code was changed to
FRG (which is currently also applied by the IOC in retrospect). After the GDR ceased to exist in 1990 and its states joined the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany once again was represented by a single team, designated
GER. Additionally, in the early 1950s the French-occupied
Saar had its own NOC and competed at the
1952 Summer Olympics before joining the German Olympic team in 1956 and the (West) German state by 1957. == Overview of Olympic participation ==