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Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic the German government in the post-World War I period, so called because the Reichstag (national assembly) met in the town of Weimar. The republic was proclaimed on November 9, 1918, and its constitution was adopted on July 31, 1919. The Weimar Republic ended with the ascension of Ad... Read more
Weimar
Weimar , city (1994 pop. 58,807), E Thuringia , central Germany, on the Ilm River. It is an industrial, transportation, and cultural center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and furniture. Known in the 10th cent., Weimar became important only in the 16th cent... Read more
Wilhelm Karl Severing
Wilhelm Karl Severing , 1875-1952, German statesman. A Social Democrat, he served (1907-33) in the Reichstag, was German minister of the interior (1928-30), and was Prussian minister of the interior during most of the period from 1920 to 1932. He supported the Weimar Republic. ... Read more
Anhalt
Anhalt , former state, c.900 sq mi (2,330 sq km), central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg. Dessau, the capital, and Köthen were the chief cities. Nonmountainous except for the outliers of the lower Harz Mts. in the west, it was drained by the Elbe,... Read more
Brunswick
Brunswick , Ger. Braunschweig , former state, central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony, Hanover, and Westphalia. The region of Braunschweig is situated on the North German plain and in the northern foothills of the Harz Mts. The land is drained by the Leine and Oker ri... Read more
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann , 1847-1935, German genre painter and etcher. He went to Paris in 1873, where he was impressed by the Barbizon school of painters. In Holland he was influenced by Frans Hals and Jozef Israëls . His early works were realistic, but beginning about 1890 he developed a style clo... Read more
Thuringia
Thuringia , Ger. Thüringen, state (1994 pop. 2,533,000), 6,273 sq mi (16,251 sq km), central Germany. It is bordered on the south by Bavaria, on the east by Saxony, on the north by Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, and on the west by Hesse. The region of Thuringia extends to the foot of the Har... Read more
national assembly
national assembly name of a number of past and present constituent or legislative bodies. In France, under the constitutions of the Fourth and Fifth republics, the lower house of parliament has been called the national assembly. Usually, however, the name national assembly has been applied to pro... Read more
Nazi
Nazi A member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers' Party. It was founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party by a Munich locksmith, Anton Drexler, adopted its new name in 1920, and was taken over by HITLER in 1921. The Nazis dominated Germany... Read more
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann , 1878-1929, German statesman. A founder (1902) and director (until 1918) of the Association of Saxon Industrialists, Stresemann entered the Reichstag in 1907 as a deputy of the National Liberal party and represented the interests of big business. During World War I, he supported t... Read more

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Weimar Republic
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Weimar Republic (1919–33) Popular name for the republic of Germany created...after the city of Weimar where the constitution...difficulties. The Weimar constitution was suspended...chancellor and the republic was superseded by... Read more
Weimar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Weimar City in the state of Thuringia, e central Germany. Founded...chartered in 1348, the city was capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar from 1547 to 1918. It reached its zenith in the 18th century...the German National Assembly convened here to establish the Weimar Republic , and Walter Gropius ... Read more
German Democratic Republic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC One of the unintended and initially unforeseen consequences...occupied West Germany was transformed into the Federal Republic of Germany, a democratic state with close ties to the Western powers. In East Germany, the German Democratic Republic was founded. The Soviets had allowed ... Read more
Franz von Papen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...hostility toward the democratic Weimar Republic led them to support the rise...the downfall of the hapless Weimar Republic. His big chance came in July...democratic principles underlying the Weimar Republic blinded them to the danger of... Read more
Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations GERMANY Federal Republic of Germany Bundesrepublik Deutschland...x2014; the flag of the German (Weimar) Republic from 1919 until 1933. ANTHEM: Einigkeit...Sea on the n, Poland and the Czech Republic to the e, Austria to the se, Switzerland... Read more
Gustav Stresemann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...a leading political figure of the post-World War I Weimar Republic. He championed a policy of postwar reconciliation...Henry A. Turner, Stresemann and the Politics of the Weimar Republic (1963). Marvin L. Edwards, Stresemann and the Greater... Read more
Prussia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...German Empire (1871-1918) and a state of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Prussia occupied more than half...became part of the new states of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the German Democratic Republic (now reunified). The USSR annexed the northern... Read more
Stresemann, Gustav
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Stresemann, Gustav (1878–1929) German statesman. Stresemann was the outstanding politician of the Weimar Republic . He concluded the Locarno Pact (1925) and worked to achieve a practicable postwar settlement with Germany's former opponents under... Read more
Egon Bahr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...tensions between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, which eventually led to...been active in the politics of the Weimar Republic. Bahr was born on March 18, 1922, in...countries, and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) that collectively became known... Read more
Wernher von Braun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...founder of the German Savings Bank, a member of the Weimar Republic Cabinet and minister of agriculture. His mother, the...Adolf Hitler manipulated his way to power during the Weimar Republic and became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933... Read more

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Weimar Republic
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Weimar Republic the German government in the post...national assembly) met in the town of Weimar. The republic was proclaimed on November 9, 1918...constitution was adopted on July 31, 1919. The Weimar Republic ended with the ascension of Adolf Hitler... Read more
Weimar
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Weimar, Germany, USA Germany (Thuringia): originally Wimare, an early spelling of Weimar. The name was derived from the Old German wisa ‘...1919 to draw up a constitution for the new German Republic, henceforth known as the Weimar Republic (1919–33). Read more
Germany, Federal Republic of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Germany, Federal Republic of A central European country covering...borders with Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg...Germany's defeat in World War I, the WEIMAR REPUBLIC was instituted, to be replaced in 1933...the country divided into the Federal ... Read more
Reichstag
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...legislature of the GERMAN SECOND EMPIRE and of the Weimar Republic. Its role was confined to legislation, being forbidden...having limited control over public spending. Under the Weimar Republic it enjoyed greater power as the government was made... Read more
Brüning, Heinrich
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Brüning, Heinrich (1885–1970) German statesman. As leader of the Weimar Republic's Catholic Centre Party, he was Chancellor and Foreign Minister, 1930–32. He attempted to solve Germany's economic problems... Read more
Hindenburg, Paul von
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Hindenburg, Paul von (1847–1934) German field marshal during World War I and president of the Weimar Republic (1925–34), born in Posen, Germany. His tenure was marked by the rise to power of Adolf Hitler , whom he appointed chancellor in 1933. Read more
Enabling Act
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ) (23 Mar. 1933) A law which according to the constitution of the German Weimar Republic enabled the government to rule by decree without parliamentary consent in cases of emergency. It had to be passed... Read more
Kapp putsch
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...The attempt by Wolfgang Kapp (1858–1922), a right-wing Prussian landowner and politician, to overthrow the WEIMAR REPUBLIC and restore the German monarchy. Aided by elements in the army, including LUDENDORFF , and the unofficial “... Read more
Neue Sachlichkeit
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...describe the ‘so-called ‘New Objectivity’’ in art and architecture, especially in the Weimar Republic in Germany. A reaction to Expressionism , it was associated with the development of Rationalism and the International... Read more
Dawes Plan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...collecting REPARATIONS from Germany after World War I. Following the collapse of the Deutschmark and the inability of the WEIMAR REPUBLIC to pay reparations, an Allied payments commission chaired by the US financier Charles G. Dawes put forward a plan... Read more

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Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2008; ; 638 words ; ...Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic. By Cindy Skach...prosperous Fifth Republic, and its most...and ill-fated Weimar Republic. Skach's points...factor was the Republic's prolonged...instability of Weimar's fragile coalitions... Read more
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2006; ; 525 words ; ...Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930. By William...formative years of the Weimar Republic has not received the...contributions to the republic. William Mulligan enables...that roiled the early Weimar years. Because it assumes... Read more
Cultural chronicle of the Weimar Republic.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 110 words ; 9780810859678 Cultural chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Grange, William. Scarecrow Pr...chronology of cultural events of the Weimar Republic that spans from November 9, 1918...declaration that Germany was a Republic to January 30, 1933, when President... Read more
The Trauma of Defeat: Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 571 words ; ...Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic. By JAMES M. SKIDMORE. (Canadian Studies...has been left out of many studies of Weimar and modernist literature as her writings...examination of historical texts in the Weimar period concentrates on her idealization... Read more
Carpe Mundum; German youth culture of the Weimar Republic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 163 words ; 9783631562444 Carpe Mundum; German youth culture of the Weimar Republic. Springman, Luke. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2007 299...analyzes aspects of German youth culture during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) from its training materials to its government... Read more
The Trauma of Defeat: Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 148 words ; 0820475602 The trauma of defeat; Ricarda Huch's historiography during the Weimar Republic. Skidmore, James Martin. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2005 215 pages $51.95 Paperback Canadian studies in German language and literature; v.50 PT2617 Unlike the United States, with its Declaration of Independence, or France, ... Read more
The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/1999; ; 340 words ; The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic. By ROGER WOODS. London and New York: Macmillan. 1996. ix + 173 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. For many years after the end of the... Read more
Unmasking Hitler; cultural representations of Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the present.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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