Weimar Democracy

Weimar Democracy

Weimar Constitution
1. President
  1. Elected every 7 years
  2. Controlled
    1. Army
    2. Navy
    3. Air force
  3. Article 48
    1. In crisis rule on his own
    2. emergency decree
2. Chancellor
  1. Chosen by parliment
  2. Day to day running
  3. 505 of Reichstags support
3. The Reichstag
  1. elected every 4 years
  2. proportional representation
    1. ie. 10% of votes = 10% of seats
    2. Hard to make decisions
    3. Often no majority
4. The German People
  1. electorate
Spartacists
1. Communists
2. Red Ruhr in the Rising
  1. Stayed on strike after Kapp Putsch
    1. took several towns
      1. Essen
      2. Elberfield
  2. Goverment sent Free corps
    1. 1000 workers killed
Kapp Putsch
1. Right wing grthat tried to take overoup
  1. led by Wolfgang Kapp
  2. 5000 men (Free Corps)
2. March 1920
3. Took over Berlin
  1. Goverment fled
  2. Workers went on strike
    1. no electricity
    2. no gas
    3. no water
    4. no trains
  3. 100 hours then fled
Munich Putsch
1. Nazis
  1. Stromtroopers
  2. Swastika
  3. 3000 members in 1920 5000 in 1921
2. 8th November 1923
  1. Interrupted a meeting in a beer hall in Munich
    1. fired a bullet in the celiling
      1. announced he was taking over Bavaria
        then the rest of the country
        Ludendorff walked in and said he supported Hitler
    2. Gustav von Kahr was there
      1. Head of Bavarian goverment
      2. Locked him and his companions in a small room
        Promised to help so released
3. Next morning
  1. Kahr went back on his word
    1. Contacted police
  2. 2000 men marched but met police
    1. 16 Nazis and 3 policemen dead
    2. Hitler and Ludendorff captured
4. Trial and imprisonment
  1. Trial
    1. 24 days
    2. Media sensation
      1. Hitler used to gain support
  2. Imprisonment
    1. 5 years only
      1. allowed visitors and nice room
      2. released after 9 months
    2. Mein Kampf
      1. My struggle
      2. Bestselling book
  3. Changed strategy
    1. Stand in elections
Stresemann Era
1. Dawes Plan
  1. 1924
  2. Germany borrowed money of the USA
    1. build the economy
2. New currency
  1. Rentenmark replaced old currrency
    1. Temporary
  2. Reichsmark replaced rentenmrk
3. Locarno treaties
  1. Set borders With Belgium and France
4. League of Nations
  1. Entered in 1926
  2. Improved relations with France and b\ritain
5. Young Plan
  1. 1929
  2. Reduced reperations
    1. £1.8 million
Weimar Culture
1. Night life
  1. Plays and musicals
  2. sexuality embraced
2. Art
  1. Inequalities in social class
  2. Critical of goverment
  3. May fled with Hitler's rule
3. Design
  1. Bauhaus
    1. Form over function
    2. Simple
4. Cinema
  1. Films
    1. Metropolis
    2. Blue Angel
  2. Actors
    1. Marlene Dietrich
5. Literature
  1. Thomas Mann
  2. Erich Maria Remarque

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