The Deutsches Herrenhaus was created from the Prussian House of Lords on 22 December 2011 by the Reichsrechtschreibunggesetz ("Imperial Orthography Act") that decrees in Article 3 that the new body be named to incorporate all of Germany, rather than rely on the "outdated body focusing merely on... Prussia". All Reichsministers of the German Empire automatically become Sitting Peers of the House of Lords upon appointment, and become Life Peers upon their retirement from government