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Anti-Weimar Republic Communist Party of Germany. Formed at the very end of 1918 out of a number of left-wing groups, including the left-wing of the USPD and the Spartacus League. It was a Marxist-Leninist party that advocated revolution by the proletariat and the creation of a communist regime according to the example of the Soviet Union. It ...
Dissolution [ edit ] In 1928, some members of the Left Communists such as Fischer, Urbahns, and Otto Weber participated in the founding of the Lenin League ( de ), others engaged in council communist groups, or retired from politics after the loss of the mandate in the May 1928 elections .
All the major parties of the Weimar Republic formally disbanded within the span of about a week: the German National People's Party, the Nazis' coalition partner (27 June), the German State Party (28 June), the Centre Party (3 July), the Bavarian People's Party (4 July) and the German People's Party (4 July). [6]
Jones, Larry E. German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Kallis, Aristotle. Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922–1945. London: Routledge, 2000. Kallis, Aristotle. Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War. New York ...
The 1931 Prussian Landtag referendum was an attempt to prematurely dissolve the sitting session of the Landtag (parliament) of the Weimar German state of Prussia.The referendum, which took place according to Article 6 of the 1920 Prussian Constitution, was triggered by a petition launched in the spring of 1931 by the anti-republican veterans' organization Der Stahlhelm.
The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was the lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat, which represented the states.The Reichstag convened for the first time on 24 June 1920, taking over from the Weimar National Assembly, which had served as an interim parliament following the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918.
The Centre Party (German: Zentrum), officially the German Centre Party (German: Deutsche Zentrumspartei) and also known in English as the Catholic Centre Party, is a Christian democratic political party in Germany. It was most Influential in the German Empire and Weimar Republic.
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]