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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.
Through the Reich Law of 30 April 1920 (RGBl. I p. 841), [1] the seven people's or free states, excluding the Coburg region, were finally united on 1 May 1920, to form the State of Thuringia with an area of 11,763 km 2. The first state coat of arms had seven stars on a red background, symbolizing the former free states. The capital was Weimar.
The Free People's State of Württemberg (German: Freier Volksstaat Württemberg) was a state which existed in the Weimar Republic and from 1933 in Nazi Germany. History [ edit ]
The Timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial events ...
Emergency money of the Free State of Bottleneck with a map of the region. The text reads: "Nowhere is it more beautiful than in the Free State of Bottleneck". During the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic, there were a number of short-lived attempts to set up soviet-style republics: People's State of Bavaria (8 November 1918 – 6 ...
The second round of the 1925 German presidential election was thus not a contest between the DVP's Karl Jarres (1st place) and the SPD's Otto Braun (2nd place), who both belonged to parties which accepted the political system of the Weimar Republic, but was a three-person race between the Centre Party's Wilhelm Marx (3rd place in the first ...
The October events formed a part of the existential crisis of the Weimar Republic in 1923. Three major events in 1923, the occupation of the Ruhr, separatist unrest in the Rhineland and the Palatinate, and the danger of Hitler's far-right beer hall putsch in Bavaria spreading across the country put the Weimar Republic government under extreme ...
Unlike in previous Weimar cabinets, there was no formal coalition agreement. The Cuno cabinet's attempts to deal with reparations payments to the Allies of World War I were sidelined when France and Belgium accused Germany of not making the required payments on time and occupied the Ruhr on 11 January 1923.