Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The coat of arms of the Weimar Republic shown above is the version used after 1928, which replaced that shown in the "Flag and coat of arms" section. The flag of Nazi Germany shown above is the version introduced after the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and used till 1935, when it was replaced by the swastika flag , similar, but not exactly the same as the flag of the Nazi Party that had ...
Weimar Republic hyperinflation from one to a trillion paper marks per gold mark; values on logarithmic scale. A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 or 200 billion (2×10 11) marks by late 1923. [14]
On closer examination, the Weimar experience was different. According to Jung, the popular legislative initiative of 1926 was a laudable attempt to complement the parliamentary system where it was not able to provide a solution: in the question of a clear and final separation of the assets of the state and the former Princes.
The fact that the trial also proved the fundamental inadequacy of a judicial process for dealing with political power struggles, as Ernst Rudolf Huber and Carl Schmitt argued in 1932 in 'Reich Authority and the State Court' (Reichsgewalt und Staatsgerichtshof) [8] and foresaw that in the future, political solutions would be sought outside the ...
The Law for the Protection of the Republic (German: Gesetz zum Schutze der Republik) was the name of two laws of the Weimar Republic that banned organisations opposed to the "constitutional republican form of government" along with their printed matter and meetings. Politically motivated acts of violence such as the assassination of members of ...
The Weimar government [4] was headed by Gustav Bauer, a Social Democrat, as Chancellor from June 1919 through March 1920. [5] Friedrich Ebert was the Republic's initial President, from the end of World War I [6] until his death in February 1925. Julius Barmat was a Russian Jew who became a wholesale merchant with "less than perfect character."
Under the Weimar Constitution, a quorum of two-thirds of the entire Reichstag membership was required to be present in order to pass a law amending the constitution. To sidestep this potential obstruction, Göring declared that any deputy who was "absent without excuse" was to be considered as present.
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.