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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.
Pages in category "Political parties in the Weimar Republic" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was the lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat, which represented the states.The Reichstag convened for the first time on 24 June 1920, taking over from the Weimar National Assembly, which had served as an interim parliament following the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918.
The Weimar Republic, [d] ... It was the last multi-party election of the Weimar Republic and the last in a united Germany for 57 years. Enabling Act
List of all registered political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1969 and 2023 by the Federal Returning Office (in German) Overview of the elections since 1946 (Übersicht der Wahlen seit 1946) on the website of the Tagesschau - Election results in Germany since 1946 on state, federal and European levels (German descriptions ...
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 ...
The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Before the rise of the Nazi Party , it was the major nationalist party in Weimar Germany.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 20 May 1928 to elect the fourth Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. [1] [2] [3]The previous three and a half years had seen Germany governed by a series of conservative cabinets, variably including the radical nationalist German National People's Party (DNVP).