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The following events occurred in February 1919: ... in Chicago (d. ... The first democratically elected governing body of Germany was established, ...
The Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum was established in Kaunas, Lithuania. [86] The Broken Hill railway line was extended in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, with stations Broken Hill, [87] Mount Gipps, [88] The Gorge, [89] and Menindee serving the line. [90] The football club Auersmacher was established in Kleinblittersdorf, Germany ...
19 January – German federal election, 1919; 11 February - German presidential election, 1919; 13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in. 29 March – University of Hamburg is established. 21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
The following events occurred in September 1919: ... The football club Gonsenheim was established in Mainz, Germany ... Chicago White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil ...
Germany then had both a parliament and a government that were democratically legitimised, and the Council of the People's Deputies was dissolved. The Assembly went on to draft and approve the Weimar constitution , which established Germany as a parliamentary republic on 14 August 1919.
The popular discontent over the events of Christmas week led to the formation of a revolutionary committee by Georg Ledebour (USPD) and Karl Liebknecht of the newly established Communist Party of Germany (KPD) on 6 January 1919. With the goal of blocking the elections for a national assembly and setting up a council republic, they declared the ...
In part as a response to the treaty, and particularly Article 231 that assigned sole responsibility for the war to Germany, the Assembly established an inquiry into guilt for the war on 20 August 1919. Its four subcommittees were tasked with examining the causes of the war, what brought about its loss, what missed opportunities for peace had ...
On 3 March 1918, the newly established Soviet government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany to end Russia's involvement in the war. It arguably contained harsher terms for the Russians than the later Treaty of Versailles would demand of the Germans.