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For most of the Weimar Republic, the Centre Party was the third-largest party in the Reichstag and a bulwark of the Republic, participating in all governments until 1932. Following Adolf Hitler 's rise to power in early 1933, the Centre Party was among the parties who voted for the Enabling Act , which granted legislative powers to Hitler's ...
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.
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 ...
Central Council of Dada for the World Revolution; Centre Party (Germany) Christian Social People's Service; Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party; Communist Party of Germany (Opposition) Communist Workers' Party of Germany; Conciliator faction; Conservative People's Party (Germany)
The Centre Party (which ran as the Christian People's Party) and the Bavarian People's Party, received 19.7% of the vote, an increase of 3.3% over the Centre Party's results in 1912. The right-wing German National People's Party (DNVP) received 10.3%, a significantly worse result than its predecessor parties, which together had won 15.1% of the ...
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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 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.