Zusammenfassung der Ressource
People in Golden Age
- Women
- Didn't want to be
housewife anymore
- Elsa Hermann free,
independent, sexually
liberated
- Equal vote,
education, pay and
civil service
appointments
- Didn't follow traditional marriage
and children route due to the deaths
in WWI
- Not all women approved of
this change
- Civil Code 1896 meant man decided family
life which meant he decided if woman could
get paid employment
- Leauge of German Women
(BDF) 900,000 women who
liked traditional women
- Church supported
- 'New woman' more of a myth
- Young People
- Breaking free of the
constraints of family,
school and religion
- Crime and
anti-social
behaviour
- Highly selective
Gymnasium schools
- If did not get in, then they'd
leave at 14 and look for
apprenticeships or
employment
- Rise of
unemployment
after1924
- In 1925-26, 17% of
unemployed were 14-21
- Baby boom between 1900-10
resulting in more want more
employment
- Benefit system helped
young people
- Working class in big
cities joined gangs
- Wandervogel set up by
schools to cater for young
people
- Day centres created to gain skills
- Jews
- 80% of jews in Germany
(400,000)
- Well educated
- Many felt more
German than Jewish
- But kept
Jewish
tradition
- Achieved a lot under
Weimar Republic
- 1% of total population
- Dominated politics, press, business,
banking, unis, publishing, books,
newpapers, music, thetre and cinema