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Key Facts: Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur History Exam

4 Kurse

The Qualifikationsphase Geschichte is organised into four Kurshalbjahre from the Übergang zur Moderne to the Nachkriegsordnung

Fachlehrplan Geschichte Gymnasium Sachsen-Anhalt, Stand 01.08.2022

~300 / ~210 min

Approximate written Bearbeitungszeit at erhöhtem and grundlegendem Anforderungsniveau, plus roughly 30 minutes Auswahlzeit; re-issued annually

RdErl. 'Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Abiturprüfung', Nummer 7.4

14.04.2026

Written Geschichte date in the 2026 main session; mündliche Prüfungen from 11 May 2026

Ministerium für Bildung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Pressemitteilung 27/2026 (10.04.2026)

0–15 Punkte

Grading scale for each Prüfungsfach, from Note 1 (15–13 Punkte) to Note 6 (0 Punkte)

Verordnung über die gymnasiale Oberstufe, Sachsen-Anhalt

200 / 100 Punkte

Minimum Gesamtqualifikation: 200+ from Block I (§38) and 100+ from the five Prüfungselemente in Block II (§39), out of 900 maximum

Verordnung über die gymnasiale Oberstufe, Sachsen-Anhalt

~5,600 candidates

Approximate number of Abitur candidates in Sachsen-Anhalt in the 2026 session across all eligible school types

Ministerium für Bildung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Pressemitteilung 27/2026

Free 100-question English-language MCQ study bank for Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur Geschichte, mapped to the Fachlehrplan Kurse 1–4 plus deutsche Teilung and Wiedervereinigung. Official exam: German source-based Klausur, roughly 300 min (eA) / 210 min (gA) plus ~30 min Auswahlzeit; written date 14.04.2026. Not an official-format simulation; no fee for regular school candidates.

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1The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the decision that reorganised the territories of the Heiliges Römisches Reich to compensate princes for losses west of the Rhine, was adopted in Regensburg in which year?
A.1803
B.1789
C.1815
D.1834
Explanation: The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss was adopted on 25 February 1803 in the Altes Rathaus in Regensburg. It compensated secular princes for territories lost to France on the left bank of the Rhine (ceded under the Frieden von Lunéville of 1801) by handing them ecclesiastical and small secular territories on the right bank.
2In the context of 1803, what is the difference between Säkularisation and Mediatisierung?
A.Säkularisation transferred ecclesiastical territories to secular rulers, while Mediatisierung stripped smaller secular Reichsstände of their immediate status under the Kaiser
B.Säkularisation abolished serfdom, while Mediatisierung introduced freedom of trade
C.Säkularisation dissolved the Reichstag, while Mediatisierung created the Rheinbund
D.Säkularisation removed clergy from public office, while Mediatisierung expelled foreign rulers from the Reich
Explanation: Säkularisation meant the transfer of church lands — bishoprics, abbeys and monastic property — into the hands of secular princes. Mediatisierung meant that formerly reichsunmittelbar (immediate) small territories and Reichsstädte lost their direct subordination to the Kaiser and were absorbed into larger states. Together the 1803 settlement dissolved 2 Kurfürstentümer, 9 Reichsbistümer, 44 Reichsabteien and 45 Reichsstädte.
3The Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation formally ended in 1806. What immediate act brought it to a close?
A.Kaiser Franz II laid down the imperial crown after the founding of the Rheinbund
B.The Frankfurter Nationalversammlung voted to dissolve the Reich
C.The Wiener Kongress declared the Reich abolished
D.The Reichstag in Regensburg passed a law of self-dissolution
Explanation: After sixteen German states left the Reich to form the Rheinbund under Napoleon's protection in July 1806, Kaiser Franz II laid down the crown of the Heiliges Römisches Reich on 6 August 1806, ending the thousand-year-old polity. He continued as Franz I, Kaiser von Österreich.
4What did the Preußisches Oktoberedikt of 9 October 1807 principally achieve?
A.It abolished hereditary subjection (Erbuntertänigkeit) and allowed free choice of occupation and free sale of land
B.It granted Prussian subjects a written constitution with an elected parliament
C.It introduced compulsory military service based on universal conscription
D.It created a customs union between Prussia and the southern German states
Explanation: The Oktoberedikt, issued under Freiherr vom und zum Stein after Prussia's defeat at Jena und Auerstedt and the Frieden von Tilsit, abolished Erbuntertänigkeit, removed the estate-based restrictions on landholding and occupation, and thereby began the Bauernbefreiung — the classic example of the 'Revolution von oben'.
5The Preußische Städteordnung of 19 November 1808 is regarded as a milestone of modern administration because it
A.introduced elected Stadtverordnetenversammlungen and municipal self-administration
B.abolished all urban guilds and craft corporations at a stroke
C.placed all towns directly under royal governors appointed in Berlin
D.transferred police powers from the state to private property owners
Explanation: Stein's Städteordnung of 19 November 1808 gave towns self-administration: citizens elected a Stadtverordnetenversammlung, which in turn elected the Magistrat. It is the classic case of citizens being trained in political participation through local government.
6Under Staatskanzler Karl August von Hardenberg, which measure of 1810/1811 most directly dismantled the guild monopoly on economic activity in Prussia?
A.The introduction of Gewerbefreiheit through the edict of 2 November 1810
B.The Regulierungsedikt on peasant landholding
C.The Emanzipationsedikt granting Jews civic equality
D.The founding of the Universität zu Berlin
Explanation: The edict of 2 November 1810 introduced Gewerbefreiheit: anyone who paid the Gewerbesteuer could practise a trade, breaking the guilds' exclusive right to license craftsmen. This was central to opening a labour market for the coming industrial economy.
7Which document, signed on 9 June 1815, set out the general European territorial settlement produced by the Wiener Kongress?
A.The Wiener Kongressakte (Wiener Schlussakte des Kongresses)
B.The Heilige Allianz treaty
C.The Frieden von Lunéville
D.The Karlsbader Beschlüsse
Explanation: The Wiener Kongress met from September 1814 and produced its Kongressakte on 9 June 1815. The Fachlehrplan treats it as the basis of a new European Sicherheitssystem — the 'Wiener System' of great-power balance and congress diplomacy.
8The Deutsche Bundesakte of 8 June 1815 created the Deutscher Bund. What kind of political body was it?
A.A loose Staatenbund of sovereign princes and free cities with federal elements
B.A centralised Bundesstaat with a directly elected national parliament
C.A personal union of Austria and Prussia under one monarch
D.A military alliance without any permanent institutions
Explanation: The Deutscher Bund was a Staatenbund: its roughly 39 members — 35 princely states and 4 free cities — retained full sovereignty. Its permanent organ was the Bundesversammlung (Bundestag) in Frankfurt am Main, chaired by Austria. The Fachlehrplan describes it as a 'Staatenbund souveräner Fürsten und freier Städte mit föderalen Elementen in der Mitte Europas'.
9Where did the Bundesversammlung of the Deutscher Bund meet, and which state held the permanent presidency?
A.Frankfurt am Main, with Austria in the chair
B.Wien, with Prussia in the chair
C.Berlin, with Prussia in the chair
D.Regensburg, with Bayern in the chair
Explanation: The Bundesversammlung, colloquially the Bundestag, sat in Frankfurt am Main from 1816 and was permanently presided over by Austria. It was a congress of instructed envoys, not a parliament of elected deputies.
10German nationalists before 1848 distinguished between Kulturnation and Staatsnation. What does Kulturnation mean in this context?
A.A nation defined by shared language, literature and customs even without a common state
B.A nation defined solely by the borders and institutions of an existing state
C.A nation whose identity rests on a single established church
D.A nation constituted by a written constitution and equal citizenship
Explanation: The Fachlehrplan explicitly requires students to distinguish 'Vorstellungen von einer Kulturnation im Unterschied zur Staatsnation'. Kulturnation designates a community bound by language, literature, history and customs — the sense in which German writers could speak of a German nation while Germany remained politically fragmented.

About the Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur History Exam

Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur Geschichte is the state History examination for the Allgemeine Hochschulreife, taken as a Leistungsfach, a written Grundfach or an oral Prüfungsfach under the Oberstufenverordnung. Its content follows the Fachlehrplan Geschichte Gymnasium (Stand 01.08.2022): four Kurse running from the transition to modernity at the end of the Altes Reich, through the emergence of German and American industrial society, the clash of ideologies in Stalinismus and Nationalsozialismus, to the confrontations and cooperations of the postwar order — supplemented by Einführungsphase content on the division of Germany, the DDR and the Wiedervereinigung that is especially prominent in a former East German Land. This free bank of 100 original multiple-choice questions is an English-language study adaptation designed to build and check factual command of that content. It is not a simulation of the official exam, which is written in German and answered in extended prose based on historical sources.

Exam sponsor: Ministerium für Bildung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (MB), supported by the Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung (LISA) and the Landesschulamt. The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

Official written Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur examination in Geschichte, sat either as Leistungsfach (erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau) or Grundfach (grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau); Geschichte can also be taken as an oral Prüfungsfach. Tasks are built on historical sources and scholarly Darstellungen drawn from the four Kurse of the Qualifikationsphase: Übergang zur Moderne, Entstehen der Industriegesellschaft, Kampf der Ideologien, and systembedingte Konfrontationen und Kooperationen nach 1945. This 100-question bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation only — it does not reproduce the German-language free-response format.

Time Limit

Written: approximately 300 minutes at erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau and approximately 210 minutes at grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau, plus roughly 30 minutes of Auswahlzeit, under the annually re-issued RdErl. 'Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Abiturprüfung' (Nummer 7.4). Oral: 20 minutes Vorbereitungszeit (up to 40 minutes where a Schülerexperiment is included), with the examination itself conducted per §31 Abs. 2 Oberstufenverordnung. In 2026 the written Geschichte date was Tuesday 14 April 2026; mündliche Prüfungen began 11 May 2026 and Zeugnisse were issued by 3 July 2026.

Passing Score

Subject performance is reported on the 0–15 Punkte scale (Note 1 = 15–13 Punkte, Note 6 = 0 Punkte). The Gesamtqualifikation requires at least 200 of a possible 600 Punkte in Block I from the Kurshalbjahresergebnisse (§38 Oberstufenverordnung) and at least 100 of a possible 300 Punkte in Block II from the five Prüfungsfächer/-elemente in vierfacher Wertung (§39), with no element scored 0, at least 4 Punkte in each element and at least 20 Punkte in vierfacher Wertung in three or more elements including one auf erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau. The 900-point maximum is converted to the Abitur-Durchschnittsnote via the national KMK table.

Exam / Certification Fees

No exam fee for regular enrolled school candidates; the Abitur is a state school examination in Sachsen-Anhalt. External and Nichtschüler routes are handled by the Landesschulamt and do not carry a published Geschichte-specific fee.

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Study emphasis ~16%

Kurs 1: Übergang zur Moderne und Nationalstaatsbildung

Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, end of the Altes Reich, Preußische Reformen, Wiener System, Deutscher Bund, Vormärz and the failure of 1848/49.

Study emphasis ~15%

Kurs 2: Industriegesellschaft, Reichsgründung und Kaiserreich

Zollverein, Führungssektoren and Take-off, Einigungskriege, Reichsgründung 1871, Gründerkrise, soziale Frage and Sozialgesetzgebung.

Study emphasis ~5%

Kurs 2: Die USA als außereuropäische Industrienation

Manifest Destiny, Frontier, post-Civil-War industrialisation and comparison with the German development.

Study emphasis ~8%

Kurs 3: Stalinismus

Sozialismus in einem Land, Fünfjahrpläne, Zwangskollektivierung, Holodomor, Großer Terror and Stalinkult.

Study emphasis ~15%

Kurs 3: Krise der Weimarer Demokratie und Nationalsozialismus

Artikel 48, Weltwirtschaftskrise, Machtübertragung 1933, Gleichschaltung, Führerstaat, Nürnberger Gesetze and Volksgemeinschaft.

Study emphasis ~13%

Kurs 3: Zweiter Weltkrieg, Shoa und Widerstand

Vernichtungs- und Weltanschauungskrieg, Wannseekonferenz, Aktion T4, Porajmos, Zivilisationsbruch and forms of resistance.

Study emphasis ~10%

Kurs 4: Kalter Krieg und Blockbildung

Eiserner Vorhang, Truman-Doktrin, Zwei-Lager-Theorie, Berlin-Blockade, NATO and Warschauer Pakt, Berlin- and Kubakrise.

Study emphasis ~8%

Kurs 4: Entspannung, Ostpolitik und Ende des Kalten Krieges

Wandel durch Annäherung, Ostverträge, Viermächteabkommen, KSZE Helsinki, NATO-Doppelbeschluss and Gorbatschow's reforms.

Study emphasis ~10%

Einführungsphase: deutsche Teilung, DDR und Wiedervereinigung

Besatzungspolitik, doppelte Staatsgründung, 17. Juni 1953, Mauerbau, Staatssicherheit, Friedliche Revolution and the Wiedereinrichtung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt.

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What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: Subject performance is reported on the 0–15 Punkte scale (Note 1 = 15–13 Punkte, Note 6 = 0 Punkte). The Gesamtqualifikation requires at least 200 of a possible 600 Punkte in Block I from the Kurshalbjahresergebnisse (§38 Oberstufenverordnung) and at least 100 of a possible 300 Punkte in Block II from the five Prüfungsfächer/-elemente in vierfacher Wertung (§39), with no element scored 0, at least 4 Punkte in each element and at least 20 Punkte in vierfacher Wertung in three or more elements including one auf erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau. The 900-point maximum is converted to the Abitur-Durchschnittsnote via the national KMK table.
  • Assessment: Official written Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur examination in Geschichte, sat either as Leistungsfach (erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau) or Grundfach (grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau); Geschichte can also be taken as an oral Prüfungsfach. Tasks are built on historical sources and scholarly Darstellungen drawn from the four Kurse of the Qualifikationsphase: Übergang zur Moderne, Entstehen der Industriegesellschaft, Kampf der Ideologien, and systembedingte Konfrontationen und Kooperationen nach 1945. This 100-question bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation only — it does not reproduce the German-language free-response format.
  • Time limit: Written: approximately 300 minutes at erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau and approximately 210 minutes at grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau, plus roughly 30 minutes of Auswahlzeit, under the annually re-issued RdErl. 'Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Abiturprüfung' (Nummer 7.4). Oral: 20 minutes Vorbereitungszeit (up to 40 minutes where a Schülerexperiment is included), with the examination itself conducted per §31 Abs. 2 Oberstufenverordnung. In 2026 the written Geschichte date was Tuesday 14 April 2026; mündliche Prüfungen began 11 May 2026 and Zeugnisse were issued by 3 July 2026.
  • Exam / certification fees: No exam fee for regular enrolled school candidates; the Abitur is a state school examination in Sachsen-Anhalt. External and Nichtschüler routes are handled by the Landesschulamt and do not carry a published Geschichte-specific fee. Official sources

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Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur History: Suggested Study Strategy

1Revise by Kurs, not by century: build one timeline per Kurs (1: 1789–1849, 2: 1840s–1914, 3: 1917–1945, 4: 1945–1990) so you can place any source instantly.
2Practise on real Quellen — speeches, posters, statistics, treaty texts — because the exam grades interpretation and argument, not recall alone; MCQs build the factual base that interpretation rests on.
3Learn paired comparisons the Fachlehrplan explicitly demands: German versus American industrialisation, and Stalinismus versus Nationalsozialismus as two dictatorships.
4Give the geschichtskulturelle Kompetenz strand real study time: be ready to discuss how events are commemorated, including Gedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt such as Marienborn, ROTER OCHSE Halle and Moritzplatz Magdeburg.
5Anchor national history in regional examples — the DDR chemical and lignite industry, the 17 June 1953 strikes, the 1990 Wiedereinrichtung des Landes — since Sachsen-Anhalt examiners reward local grounding.
6Rehearse the operators (darstellen, erklären, erörtern, beurteilen, bewerten): each demands a different structure, and marks are lost by answering an Erörterung task with a narrative.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the official Sachsen-Anhalt Geschichte Abitur exam multiple-choice?

No. The official written paper is a German-language, source-based essay Klausur: candidates interpret Quellen and Darstellungen and write extended argued answers. This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation for learning and checking the underlying content, not a simulation of the official format.

Why are the questions in English when the exam is in German?

This bank is a study aid for building factual command of the Fachlehrplan content in English. German proper nouns and official terms — Weimarer Republik, Reichstag, Wiedervereinigung, Oberstufenverordnung and so on — are preserved exactly as used in the curriculum, so you can carry the vocabulary straight into German-language revision.

Which content does the exam cover?

The Fachlehrplan Geschichte Gymnasium (Stand 01.08.2022) organises the Qualifikationsphase into four Kurse: the Übergang zur Moderne (late 18th century to 1849), the emergence of industrial society in Germany and the USA (1840s to early 20th century), the Kampf der Ideologien in the first half of the 20th century (Stalinismus, Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg), and systembedingte Konfrontationen und Kooperationen after 1945. Einführungsphase content on the division of Germany, the DDR and Wiedervereinigung feeds directly into that final Kurs.

How long is the written exam?

Geschichte is a 'weiteres Prüfungsfach' under the annual RdErl. 'Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Abiturprüfung': typically around 300 minutes at erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau and around 210 minutes at grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau, plus roughly 30 minutes of Auswahlzeit. The exact times are re-issued every year, so check the current Erlass through your school or the Bildungsserver.

Is Geschichte compulsory in the Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur?

Geschichte is belegungspflichtig for most students, with four Kurshalbjahresergebnisse required in Block I under §38 Abs. 1 Nr. 4 of the Oberstufenverordnung. Whether you also sit it as one of your five Abiturprüfungsfächer — written as Leistungsfach or Grundfach, or orally — is a matter of your individual Prüfungsfach combination.

When was the exam held in 2026?

In the 2026 main session the written Geschichte exam was set for Tuesday 14 April 2026. Mündliche Prüfungen began on 11 May 2026 and Zeugnisse were issued by 3 July 2026, with roughly 5,600 candidates sitting the Abitur across Gymnasien, Gesamtschulen, Gemeinschaftsschulen mit gymnasialer Oberstufe, berufliche Gymnasien, Freie Waldorfschulen and Schulen des zweiten Bildungsweges.

Is there an exam fee?

No. The Abitur is a state school examination in Sachsen-Anhalt and regular enrolled school candidates pay no fee. Nichtschüler and second-chance routes are administered by the Landesschulamt and have no published Geschichte-specific fee.