BRD is an unofficial abbreviation for the Federal Republic of Germany . It is now uncommon, but was used consistently in the German Democratic Republic between 1968 and 1990 to refer to what was generally known in English as West Germany. Unlike the English counterpart FRG, which was in official use as an IOC country code and a FIFA trigramme, the use of BRD was discouraged by the authorities of the Federal Republic itself. History In the first years after 1949 the abbreviation was sometimes u… (More on Brd)