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Proponents of conscription reason that it conserved the military's firm rooting in civilian society and warn that a professional army might return to the militaristic, anti-democratic and elitist traditions of the Nazi and German Empire eras – despite the fact that those regimes also practiced conscription.
The German order of precedence is a symbolic hierarchy of the highest federal offices in Germany used to direct protocol. It has no official status, but has been established in practical use. [ 1 ] It consists of the holders or chairs of the five permanent constitutional bodies of the Federation.
Volksdeutsche (Ethnic Germans) [53] from the Serbian Banat mostly [54] but also Croatia, Hungary and Romania [55] with some Reich German cadres [56] 20,624 [56] Germanic formation [57] Volksdeutsche (92%) and Reich German [53] In January 1945 absorbed the remnants of the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) as a ...
The empire was founded on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, France, where the south German states, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force on 16 April, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of ...
German constitution of 1871, chart. The Constitution of the German Empire (German: Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches) was the basic law of the German Empire of 1871–1918, from 16 April 1871, coming into effect on 4 May 1871. [1] Some German historians refer to it as Bismarck's imperial constitution (German: Bismarcksche Reichsverfassung, BRV).
An order, line or right of succession is the line of individuals necessitated to hold a high office when it becomes vacated, such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility. [1] This sequence may be regulated through descent or by statute. [1] Hereditary government form differs from elected government.
Wehrkraftzersetzung death sentence issued by the People's Court on 8 September 1943 against Dr. Alois Geiger for defeatism. Wehrkraftzersetzung or Zersetzung der Wehrkraft (German for "corroding of defensive strength") was a sedition offence in German military law during the Nazi Germany era from 1938 to 1945.
A 1932 amendment to the constitution made the president of the High Court of Justice, not the chancellor, first in the line of succession to the presidency—and even then on an interim basis pending new elections; [27] however, the Enabling Act provided no remedy for any violations of Article 2, and these actions were never challenged in court.