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A referendum would also be held if 10% of eligible voters proposed an initiative. [14] On 14 July 1933, the German cabinet used the Enabling Act to pass the "Law concerning the Plebiscite", [15] which permitted the cabinet to call a referendum on "questions of national policy" and "laws which the cabinet had enacted". [3]
There has never been a referendum of this type, although there was an argument in that direction during German reunification. The other type requires a regional public vote in case of restructuring the States ( Neugliederung des Bundesgebietes , "New Arrangement of the Federal Territory") which led to a number of effectless referendums to ...
1933, 12 November: Parliamentary elections and referendum on the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations. All Reichstag delegates are now Nazi Party members or sympathizers. According to formal results, 92% of the voters approved the referendum proposal.
1933 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1933rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade.
The Timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial events ...
1926 German property expropriation referendum; 1929 German Young Plan referendum; 1931 Prussian Landtag referendum; 1933 German League of Nations withdrawal referendum; 1934 German head of state referendum; 1935 Saar status referendum; 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum; 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum; 1955 ...
5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies. 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to fly side by side.
The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (lit. ' Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich ' ), [ 1 ] was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or ...