diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 678720b..80d5e11 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -28,11 +28,12 @@ This version only contains (incomplete) holiday information from:
 * Brazil
 * Poland
 * United Kingdom
-
+* Germany
 
 Getting started
 ===============
 
+To get the latest version you have to clone this repository.
 
 Installation
 ------------
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ Installation
 Usage
 -----
 
+**Brazil**
+
 Suppose you want to get the holidays for 2014 in the city of São Paulo,
 state of São Paulo, Brazil. You would do this::
 
@@ -70,6 +73,36 @@ state of São Paulo, Brazil. You would do this::
      datetime.date(2014, 11, 20): 'Dia da Consciência Negra',
      datetime.date(2014, 12, 25): 'Natal'}
 
+**Germany**
+   
+To get the holidays of Germany you should use the abbreviations for the german federal states like 'Germany/BY ' for Bayern.
+
+:BW: Baden-Württemberg
+:BY: Bayern
+:BE: Berlin
+:BB: Brandenburg
+:HB: Bremen
+:HH: Hamburg
+:HE: Hessen
+:MV: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
+:NI: Niedersachsen
+:NW: Nordrhein-Westfalen
+:RP: Rheinland-Pfalz
+:SL: Saarland
+:SN: Sachsen
+:ST: Sachsen-Anhalt
+:SH: Schleswig-Holstein
+:TH: Thüringen
+            
+Example::
+     
+     	from holiday import get_holidays
+	adict = holiday.get_holidays(year=2015, place='Germany/BY')	
+	print(adict)
+	
+Note
+------
+
 We don't currently help calculations involving business days; maybe we should.
 But many approaches are possible. See, for instance,
 http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/timeseries.html#custom-business-days-experimental
diff --git a/holiday/countries/germany.py b/holiday/countries/germany.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10df6dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/holiday/countries/germany.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+'''Holiday information for Brazil.'''
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
+                        unicode_literals)
+from datetime import date, timedelta
+from dateutil import easter
+
+
+def get_holidays(year, place=['Germany', None, None], scope='legal', _=str):
+    """ Returns German holiday dates. Use the abbreviations for the german
+        federal states like 'Germany/BY ' for Bayern.
+            BW: Baden-Württemberg
+            BY: Bayern
+            BE: Berlin
+            BB: Brandenburg
+            HB: Bremen
+            HH: Hamburg
+            HE: Hessen
+            MV: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
+            NI: Niedersachsen
+            NW: Nordrhein-Westfalen
+            RP: Rheinland-Pfalz
+            SL: Saarland
+            SN: Sachsen
+            ST: Sachsen-Anhalt
+            SH: Schleswig-Holstein
+            TH: Thüringen
+        Example: get_holidays(year=2015, place='Germany/BY')
+    """
+
+    eastr = easter.easter(year)
+
+    adict = {
+        date(year,  1,  1): 'Neujahr',
+        date(year,  5,  1): 'Tag der Arbeit',
+        date(year, 10,  3): 'Tag der Deutschen Einheit',
+        date(year, 12, 25): '1. Weihnachtstag',
+        date(year, 12, 26): '2. Weihnachtstag',
+        eastr - timedelta(days=2): 'Karfreitag',
+        eastr: 'Ostersonntag',
+        eastr + timedelta(days=1): 'Ostermontag',
+        eastr + timedelta(days=39): 'Christi Himmelfahrt',
+        eastr + timedelta(days=50): 'Pfingstmontag',
+        }  # These are the *national* holidays.
+
+    if place[1].upper() in ('BW', 'BY', 'ST'):
+        adict[date(year, 1, 6)] = 'Heilige Drei Könige'
+
+    if place[1] in ('BW', 'BY', 'HE', 'NW', 'RP', 'SL'):
+        adict[eastr + timedelta(days=60)] = 'Frohnleichnam'
+
+    if place[1].upper() in ('BY', 'SL'):
+        adict[date(year, 8, 15)] = 'Mariä Himmelfahrt'
+
+    if place[1].upper() in ('BB', 'MV', 'SN', 'ST', 'TH'):
+        adict[date(year, 10, 31)] = 'Reformationstag'
+
+    if place[1].upper() in ('BW', 'BY', ):
+        adict[date(year, 11, 1)] = 'Allerheiligen'
+
+    return adict
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    from pprint import pprint
+    pprint(get_holidays(2015, place=['Germany', 'BE', 'Berlin']))