Zusammenfassung der Ressource
4.Stresemann -
success and
shortcomings
- ECONOMY
- Success
- currency changed
- Rentenmark
- he was Chancellor of
every government from
1923-29
- Being a right-winger brought him
more support more skilful than Ebert
- built up Germany's prosperity
- increased reparation time
- 1928 - regained position
as 2nd biggest Industrial
Power in the world - built
up prosperity
- big businesses gained
- welfare benefits and wages increased
- Shortcomings
- US loans could be called in
anytime and ruin Germany
- unemployment - he couldnt solve it
- peasant farmers increased production but no
demand this was bad bc they had mortgages to
pay
- small shop owners were threatned
by large department stores owned by
Jews
- many didn't see point of Weimar government except rich land
owners
- only land owners did well everyone
else felt Weimar offered them little
- Culture
- Success
- Weimar allowed free expression of ideas
- cultural revival
- writers and poets flourished
- new style
- new beginnings
- shortcomings
- moral decline in towns and cities, jews and americans
making it worse by bringing their cultures and beliefs
- jews lending money to help
people thought jews had too
much money
- Wandervogel wanted simple values back
and therefore opposed
- wanted help in countryside
- organisations like this arose
- Bauhaus forced out of Weimar
- POLITICS
- success
- more stable period
- no more attempted revolutions
- parties co-operated in revelation
- Shortcomings
- still 4 diff Chancellors
- 30% went to parties against Weimar
- Right - Wing organisations were still a threat
- quiet not destroyed
- Nazi's seeming more respectful
- Hindenburg elected in 1926 but was
against democracy
- only influence of party leaders holding coalitions together
- government suffered poverty from having debts
- Foreign Policy
- Success
- 1925 - Locarno Germany borders not
to be changed
- 1929 - ToV terms negotiated
- removal of troops from the Rhineland
- 1929 - Young Plan -
reparations final
agreement
- 1924 Dawes Plan 800m mark loan
- Shortcomings
- Nationalists attacked Stresemann
for joining LoN after Locarno pact
- seen as an acceptance to ToV
- Locarno guaranteed (wouldnt change) Germany's frontiers with Belgium&France
- Communists attacked Locarno bc plot against communism regime