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Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow. Forbo Movement Systems, a manufacturer of conveyor and power transmission belts is founded. [2] Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.
The Revolution of 1918/19 is one of the most important events in the modern history of Germany, yet it is poorly embedded in the historical memory of Germans. [137] The failure of the Weimar Republic that the revolution brought into being and the Nazi era that followed it obstructed the view of the events for a long time.
13 February 1919 –Scheidemann formed a government based on the Weimar Coalition. 14 February 1919 – Constantin Fehrenbach (Centre Party) was elected president of the National Assembly. 27 February 1919 – The Assembly passed a law setting up a provisional military in accordance with the terms of the Armistice.
In the days leading up to Germany's surrender in World War I, the revolution of 1918–1919 broke out and led to the collapse of the German Empire.The Council of the People's Deputies – the revolutionary interim government made up of three members from the Majority Social Democratic Party (SPD) and three from the more radical Independent Social Democrats (USPD) – wanted a popularly elected ...
Weimar Republic (1919–1933) Nazi Germany (1933–1945, de jure only) Allied-occupied Germany (1945–1949, de jure only) Ratified: 11 August 1919: Date effective: 14 August 1919: System: Federal semi-presidential republic (1919–1930) de jure till 1945 Federal authoritarian presidential republic under a Parliamentary System (1930–1933)
Workers' and soldiers' councils, for which the term "soviets" (German: Räte, singular Rat) was coined, were first set up during the Russian Revolution.The increasingly straitened living standards of German workers under the hardships of World War I made political parties such as the Independent Social Democrats (USPD), which opposed the war, more and more appealing.
The General German Trade Union Federation (German: Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, ADGB) was a confederation of German trade unions in Germany founded during the Weimar Republic. It was founded in 1919 and was initially powerful enough to organize a general strike in 1920 against a right-wing coup d
For the purpose of centralisation in the Gleichschaltung process, a rigidly hierarchal structure was established in the Nazi Party, which it later carried through in the whole of Germany in order to consolidate total power under the person of Hitler (Führerstaat).