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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 ...
The Great Coalition (13 August 1923 – 30 November 1923) was a grand coalition during the Weimar Republic that was made up of the four main pro-democratic parties in the Reichstag: Gustav Stresemann, Reich chancellor during the Great Coalition, in 1926. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), a moderate socialist party
The German term Bürgerblock-Regierung (English: bourgeois bloc administration) denotes a government coalition in the German Weimar Republic. [1] It consisted of the German Democratic Party, Zentrum, the Bavarian People's Party, the German People's Party and the German National People's Party (or at least most of these parties).
It joined in coalition with Hitler's government in January 1933. German People's Party. Deutsche Volkspartei. DVP Before 1929: Centre to centre-right After 1929: Centre-right to right-wing: Formed in 1918 from the pre-Weimar National Liberals, it was a center-right party supporting right-liberalism. Its platform stressed Christian family values ...
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
It did not have many alternatives in 1928. There were not enough mandates to form a Weimar coalition (SPD, Centre and DDP), and a government of all the middle class parties against the Social Democrats was not possible either. The solution was a grand coalition consisting of the Weimar coalition plus the DVP and BVP.
The government's appointment of a Reich and state commissioner for the occupied territory was just a political gesture. The government had to work through other channels, such as the National Assembly delegates from the area, local dignitaries or the local organisations of the Weimar Coalition parties. [9]
In Germany's federal electoral system, a single party or parliamentary group rarely wins an absolute majority of seats in the Bundestag, and thus coalition governments, rather than single-party governments, are the usually expected outcome of a German election. [1]