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In the fourteen years the Weimar Republic was in existence, some forty parties were represented in the Reichstag.This fragmentation of political power was in part due to the use of a peculiar proportional representation electoral system that encouraged regional or small special interest parties [1] and in part due to the many challenges facing the nascent German democracy in this period.
Some are particular to the period and government, while others were just in common usage but have a bearing on the Weimar milieu and political maneuvering. Agrarian Bolshevism — an idea by several political parties, involving the expropriation of large estates (mostly those of junkers in Prussia) and passing them out to peasants.
The new government was expected to lead a political shift towards conservatism. As Brüning had no majority support in the Reichstag, he became, through the use of the emergency powers granted to the Reich president by Article 48 of the constitution, the first Weimar chancellor to operate independently of parliament. [6]
Weimar Coalition poster from the December 1924 German federal election. The Weimar Coalition (German: Weimarer Koalition) is the name given to the coalition government formed by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the German Democratic Party (DDP) and the Catholic Centre Party (Z), who together had a large majority of the delegates to the Constituent Assembly that met at Weimar in ...
Weimar paramilitary groups were militarily organized units that were formed outside of the regular German Army following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I. The most prominent of them, the Freikorps , were combat units that were supported by the German government and used to suppress uprisings from both the Left and the Right.
The Weimar Constitution of 1919 introduced the office of President of Germany (Reichspräsident), a directly elected head of state with a term length of 7 years. The office was given far-reaching prerogatives, including powers to appoint the federal government and to dissolve the Reichstag, the lower house of Germany's legislature. [2]
The text reads: "Nowhere is it more beautiful than in the Free State of Bottleneck". During the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic, there were a number of short-lived attempts to set up soviet-style republics: People's State of Bavaria (8 November 1918 – 6 April 1919) Bremen Soviet Republic (10 January – 4 February 1919)
Pages in category "Political parties in the Weimar Republic" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .