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Chancellor Max von Baden (center, in light coat) on his way to the Reichstag, 3 October 1918.. The German constitutional reforms of October 1918 (German: Oktoberreformen) consisted of several constitutional and legislative changes that transformed the German Empire into a parliamentary monarchy for a brief period at the end of the First World War.
A republican constitution in which every sentence rescinds the next one, a revolution talking about well-acquired rights of the old regime, can be only laughed at. The German Revolution is still to take place. [144] Walther Rathenau was of a similar opinion. He called the revolution a "disappointment", a "present by chance", a "product of ...
The leadership of the MSPD had seen its long-standing demands for a democratization of the Reich addressed by the October 1918 constitutional reforms. [2] The amendment to Constitution of the German Empire turned the German Reich into a parliamentary monarchy in which the government was no longer answerable to the emperor but to the majority in the Reichstag.
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.
The 1949 Constitution of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) contained many passages that were directly copied from the 1919 constitution. [46] It was intended to be the constitution of a united Germany and was therefore a compromise between liberal-democratic and Marxist–Leninist ideologies.
German lawmakers back reform to shield top court from political influence. December 19, 2024 at 6:19 AM. ... The law enshrines the structure of the Constitutional Court, widely seen as a bastion ...
Erich Ludendorff in 1918. He made the initial decision to have the democratic parties in the Empire take the blame for the lost war. At the end of September 1918 when the German Army was facing inevitable defeat in World War I, the Supreme Army Command (OHL) under Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff called on the government to offer a ceasefire to the Entente powers and to amend ...
A reform law introduced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government to abolish an exception to the 5% rule, a threshold parties must reach to enter the German parliament, is partly ...