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It ended on 23rd March 1933

-Shivom

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The Weimar period is also known for its culture. Artists tried out modern ideas and used new things like film, to entertain the public. The Bauhaus began in their reign.

Bauhaus is an art and architechture school

-Shivom

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The Weimarstarted in the town of Weimar as Ebert thought Berlin was unsafe & unstable. It was started after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne and ran away to Netherlands

-Shivom

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The Kapp Putsch: in March 1920, a Freikorps brigade rebelled against the Treaty, led by Dr Wolfgang Kapp.  It took over Berlin and tried to bring back the Kaiser.

Nationalist terrorist groups murdered 356 politicians.  In August 1921 Matthias Erzberger, the man who signed the armistice (and therefore a 'November criminal'), was shot.  In 1922, they assassinated Walter Rathenau, the SPD foreign minister, because he made a treaty with Russia.

-Anusha

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He became chancellor in 1923. As chancellor he took the crucial step of ceasing financial support to the strike in the Ruhr. He introduced a new and stable currency that ended hyperinflation and crushed a communist revolt in Saxony.

-Anusha

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The Dawes plan negotiated international loans (mainly the U.S) to Germany and contributed to the end of hyperinflation.

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1.On January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler was named Weimar Chancellor. He acted quickly to destroy democratic institutions.

2.The last Weimar elections were held in March, 1933. Using violence to intimidate their opponents, the Nazis still only received 44 percent of the vote. With the support of nationalists and regional parties that agreed with most of the Nazis’ major ideas, however, Hitler commanded a secure legislative majority. The regime quickly pushed through the four year Enabling Act - permitting the government to decree laws without parliament. The only opposition came from the Social Democrats. Communist party members had already been arrested - both parties were subsequently banned.

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Assassinations of members of Ebert's government

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Assassinations of members of Ebert's government

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A lot of the members of the weimar republic were assassinated for signing the treaty of versailles . Matthias Erzberger, the finance minister of the weimar republic and an authorised representative of the government who was assassinated for this act.

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It was the first democratic It was the first democratic constitution in German history and made sure that all sections of opinion were represented. constitution in German history and made sure that all sections of opinion were represented.

-Rudraa

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The Army, led by the right-wing General Hans von Seeckt, was not fully under the government's control. It failed to support government during the Kapp Putsch or the crisis of 1923.

-Rudraa

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All Germans had equal rights including the right to vote, free speech, religious freedom, to travel freely and hold political meetings.

-Rudraa

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The constitution introduced a bi-cameral assembly: this was a parliament that was made up of two layers; one represented the whole nation (the Reichstag) and made whole-nation decisions while the other represented regions (the Reichsrat).

- Sampada Mathur

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Some theories and evidence suggest that the rest of Europe did not want the Weimar Republic to succeed and enjoyed watching Germany fail in setting up a viable democracy. Many of the agreements between Europe (Britain and France in particular) and the Weimar Republic had serious flaws.

- Anishka Sama

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The Weimar constitution was suspended after Adolf Hitler became chancellor and the republic was superseded by the Third Reich.

- Anishka Sama

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1. On the 10th of November the armed forces agreed to support the Weimar Republic

2. the Weimar republic also introduced a new and edited constitution.

3. the Weimar republic introduced what could arguably be called the 'perfect democracy'. The following features of the Republic served to ensure that it was the perfect democracy:

*A bill of rights  guaranteed every German citizen freedom of speech and religion, and equality under the law.

*the limits put on the rights to vote had been adjusted.

*There was an elected president and an elected reichstag.

-Ishan

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Stresemann and his ministers formulated plans to arrest the hyperinflation crisis by introducing a new currency, the Rentenmark, and fixed its value to gold prices.

- Sampada Mathur

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Germany fell behind on the payment of its war reparations in 1922 so in 1923, French and Belgian soldiers entered the Ruhr region and took what was owed to them in the form of raw materials. The German government then ordered the workers to go on a strike so that they would not produce goods for the French to take. the French reacted violently killing over 100 workers. Furthermore, this meant that Germany had no goods to trade with and no money to buy things with. As a result, the government tried to solve this problem simply by printing more money and giving it to the people. This money was virtually worthless so prices shot up greatly. workers were now paid daily instead of weekly and many of them even needed wheelbarrows to carry their money home!

-Ishan

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1. the creation of a new currency after the period of hyperinflation in 1923.

2. In 1928 Germany finally achieved the same levels of production as before the war. Also, there was the Young Plan in 1929, which reduced the sum of reparations that were to be paid to a more manageable amount.

3. Germany was allowed to join the League of Nations in 1926 because Germany showed signs of peacemaking under the Weimar Republic.

4. Censorship was eliminated.

-Ishan

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the Weimar Republic was established in 1919 in Germany and it was abolished in 1933 by Adolf Hitler.

- Ishan

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The Weimar republic  was the federal republic and semi presidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the German empire. It is named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place, although the official name of the state was German Reich continuing the name from the pre-1918 Imperial period.

- tanisha

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1. All Germans over the age of 20 could now vote in the democracy.

2. Proportional Representation: A party would be appointed the same percentage of seats in the Parliament (Reichstag) as the percent of votes they received.

3. The President (elected by the people), was the head of the armed forces, chose the Chancellor and had the right to dismiss him, and could rule without the consent of the Reichstag in an emergency under Article 48 of the new Constitution.

- Keya Katariya
Sources:

1. http://gcsehistory.org.uk/modernworld/germany/weimarorigins.htm

2. GCSE Modern World History by Ben Walsh

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It was established after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne and Friedrich Ebert, head of the Socialist Democratic Party, took over.

- Keya Katariya

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HOW THEY CAME INTO POWER:

1. After the Allies requested Germany to be more democratic as one of the conditions for peace, many revolts and uprisings took place against the Kaiser who had refused.

2. Sailors in the north took over the town of Kiel and Socialists led uprisings of soldiers and workers in German ports.

3. Bavaria was declared an independent Socialist Republic and other German cities were slowly being won over.

4. On the 9th of November 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne and fled Germany for the Netherlands, leaving behind a power vacuum.

5. A new Reichstag was formed, led by the leader of the Socialist Democratic Party, Friedrich Ebert.

6. Ebert swore to "witness the new principle of the German people for freedom, justice and social welfare.” He wanted the Republic to exist for the benefit of its people, but he never managed to make it popular.

7. The German Constitution was redrafted with many new features, including new voting rules, proportional representation and powers of the President.

- Keya Katariya

Sources:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPKRPHohRk

2. http://gcsehistory.org.uk/modernworld/germany/weimarorigins.htm

3. GCSE Modern World History by Ben Walsh.

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The existence of military bands and private armies, particularly the Freikorps, was a danger to peaceful political development. They contained violent men whose political objectives were alien to a democratic republican regime. The failure of democratic governments to take firm action to suppress these bands permitted the electorate (all the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election) to be intimidated and contributed to the destruction of the democracy.

-Ananya

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Germany suffered a spiritual and material collapse after war and revolution. The Republican democratic experiment seemed alien to the German tradition and so was never fully accepted by the society.

-Ananya

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Weimar Republic was

named after the city of Weimar where the constitution was drawn up in 1919.

-Tara

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The Communists and Fascists hated the Weimar Republic. They Communists disliked the Weimar as they thought the Weimar had stopped a communist take over. On the other hand the Fascists thought that Germany is superior to everyone else and should be the most powerful county in the world and the Weimar had sold Germany out during the First World War and betrayed them with the Treaty of Versailles.

-Tara

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The common man was left hungry and jobless and blamed on the Weimar Republic. Also the Germans thought that they were winning the war, so when the Weimar Republic surrendered they were shocked and blamed them for loosing the war.

-Tara

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Article 48

This article stated that in an emergency the president could

issue a decrees (Law passes by only one minister in the parliament) without needing the agreement of the Reichstag. The main problem was that the article did not define what an emergency was.

-Tara

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1.  A Bill of Rights guaranteed every German citizen freedom of speech and religion, and equality under the law.

2.  All men and women over the age of 20 were given the vote. This was even better than Britain where only women over 30 could vote.

3. There was an elected president and an elected Reichstag (parliament).

4. The Reichstag made the laws and appointed the government, which had to do what the Reichstag wanted.

- Sampada Mathur

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Proportional representation - instead of voting for an MP, Weimar Germans voted for a party. Each party was then allocated seats in the Reichstag (parliament) exactly reflecting (proportional' to) the number of people who had voted for it. This sounds fair, but in practice it was a disaster it resulted in dozens of tiny parties, with no party strong enough to get a majority, and, therefore, no government to get its laws passed in the Reichstag. This was a major weakness of the Republic.
- Sampada Mathur

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Many people felt that Germany had received a very harsh deal in the Treaty Of Versailles, and they resented the government for signing it and agreeing to it's conditions.

- Ananya

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Obstacles they faced And Negatives

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Innovative and New things( as compared to the previous order) that they introduced

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Of the various people ( parties, common man, farmers, industrialists etc)

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How they came into power and were pushed out.