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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 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.
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.
Kuhhandel — cattle trading; German slang term for the political maneuverings in the parliament and in the Weimar government. Kultur — culture; Landtag — state legislature; Landespolizei — state police Green police — another term for police (as opposed to the "police" of various paramilitary groups), because they wore green uniforms
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 ...
Reichsbanner was a veterans' organization, in which former soldiers of the First World War enlisted their military experience in the service of the Republic. Its main goal was the defense of the Weimar Republic against usurpations of democracy from the National Socialist, Monarchist, and Communist camps.
Political violence in Germany (1918–1933) Politischer Arbeiter-Zirkel; Pomerania (electoral district) Potsdam I (electoral district) Potsdam II (electoral district) Presidential cabinets of the Weimar Republic; 1932 Prussian coup d'état
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) Bavarian Soviet Republic (6 April 1919 – 3 May 1919) Würzburg Soviet Republic (7–9 April ...