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The Weimar Republic, [d] ... The occupation was to last 5 years in the British zone, 10 in the American and 15 years in the French and Belgian zones, until 1934, but ...
Through the Reich Law of 30 April 1920 (RGBl. I p. 841), [1] the seven people's or free states, excluding the Coburg region, were finally united on 1 May 1920, to form the State of Thuringia with an area of 11,763 km 2. The first state coat of arms had seven stars on a red background, symbolizing the former free states. The capital was Weimar.
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 ...
Free and secret elections were guaranteed (Article 125). All citizens were eligible for public office, without discrimination, based on their abilities. Gender discrimination toward female civil servants was abolished (Article 128). Civil servants served the whole nation, not a specific party. They enjoyed freedom of political opinion (Article ...
The October events formed a part of the existential crisis of the Weimar Republic in 1923. Three major events in 1923, the occupation of the Ruhr, separatist unrest in the Rhineland and the Palatinate, and the danger of Hitler's far-right beer hall putsch in Bavaria spreading across the country put the Weimar Republic government under extreme ...
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Emergency money of the Free State of Bottleneck with a map of the region. The text reads: "Nowhere is it more beautiful than in the Free State of Bottleneck". 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 ...
The Treaty of Rapallo between Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia was signed by German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and his Soviet colleague Georgy Chicherin on April 16, 1922, during the Genoa Economic Conference, annulling all mutual claims, restoring full diplomatic relations, and establishing the beginnings of close trade relationships, which made Weimar Germany the main trading and ...