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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...War 1. It was named after the city of Weimar where the constitution was drawn up in...by severe economic difficulties. The Weimar constitution was suspended after Adolf...
Weimar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Archives by his sister. In 1919, Weimar was the scene of the German national...republican government known as the "Weimar Republic." The Bauhaus art school was first established (1919) in Weimar. Among the landmarks of the city...
German Democratic Republic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC One of the unintended and...transformed into the Federal Republic of Germany, a democratic...the German Democratic Republic was founded. The Soviets...the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic. Ulbricht was...
Germany, U.S. Military Involvement in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...deal with the monarchy and a republic was established before the...because he supported the new Weimar Republic and because he feared...Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Weimar had to accept them, but it...1920s, the United States aided Weimar economically by giving it most...
Thuringia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Weimar-Eisenach (see under Saxe-Weimar ). All the Thuringian territories...Thuringia was founded under the Weimar Republic by the union of Saxe-Coburg...which went to Bavaria), Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Altenburg...
Neumann, Franz
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Frankfurt. In the last years of the Weimar Republic, Neumann, in practice in Berlin...During his years as a labor lawyer in Weimar Germany, following a methodological...of labor law in the scheme of the Weimar constitution, with labor law being...
Hindenburg, Paul Von
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...abdication, the establishment of the Weimar Republic, and the armistice, and he remained a hero. Elected president of the Weimar Republic in 1925 by a coalition...Andreas Dorpalen , Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic , 1964. Martin Kitchen...
Franz von Papen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...hostility toward the democratic Weimar Republic led them to support the rise of...plotted the downfall of the hapless Weimar Republic. His big chance came in...democratic principles underlying the Weimar Republic blinded them to the danger...
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...Adolf Hitler manipulated his way to power during the Weimar Republic and became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933...
Gustav Stresemann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...

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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- World...national assembly) met in the town of Weimar. The republic was proclaimed on November...constitution was adopted on July 31, 1919. The Weimar Republic ended with the ascension of Adolf...
Germany, Federal Republic of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Germany, Federal Republic of A central European country covering...with Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France...Germany's defeat in World War I, the WEIMAR REPUBLIC was instituted, to be replaced in...
Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Jersey, 1974. Laqueur, Walter, Weimar: A Cultural History 1918–...Revolution in the Theater and Film of the Weimar Republic," in Hollywood Quarterly, no...Mazowa, M., "Sleepwalking Through Weimar," in Stills (London), Spring...
Germany
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Emperor to abdicate. This democracy is known as the Weimar Republic , so named after the city of the German poets Goethe...parliamentary majorities. Another problem was that the Weimar Republic depended on the bureaucratic and military elites of...
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...
Prussia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...at constitutional reform. By contrast, during the Weimar Republic, the problem was reversed. A universal franchise...Papen in 1932 therefore fundamentally weakened the Weimar Republic and heralded its end. Prussia was officially dissolved...
Seeckt, Hans von
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...the July Plot of 1944. Seeckt remained hostile to the Weimar Republic. While he was ready to use the army against insurrectionists from the left, his defence of the Republic against insurrectionists from the right in the Kapp...
anti-Semitism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Treaty , the ensuing widespread economic misery of the Weimar Republic, and its political weakness made many Germans very...the emerging Nazi Party in particular). Many of the Republic's most ardent supporters, most affluent business...
reparations
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...payments formed the central political issue during the Weimar Republic, not only because of their tremendous size, but also...considered unacceptable at the time. Every government of the Republic was judged on how it managed to reduce the payments...
Centre Party
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Despite its commitment to the monarchy, the party quickly accepted the Weimar Republic and became its central pillar next to the SPD . Towards the end of the Republic, under Burning's leadership, it hoped to overcome the problems of the...

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Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic, by Theo Balderston. New Studies...first economic crisis of the Weimar Republic. Chapter four investigates the...relative) stability of the Weimar Republic. This leaves open the question...
Karl Leydecker, ed.: German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...ed. German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature...political and social issues of the Weimar Republic. Throughout the volume, the...collection German Novelists of the Weimar Republic offers some intriguing discoveries...
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...ed. German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature...Karl Leydecker's survey of Weimar novelists is the first comprehensive...pacifist Remarque considered the Weimar Republic a major defining moment in German...
A Comparison of Russia and the Weimar Republic - Part 1
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 6/23/1994; 700+ words ; ...parallels between today's Russia and the old Weimar Republic of Germany. Weimar is the term used to describe a tumultuous period...dictatorship. Similarities between Russia and Weimar are disturbing. After all, Weimar, Germany...
The best and the worst; The Weimar Republic.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/22/2007; 700+ words ; ...passed but the Janus face of the Weimar Republic appals and attracts as much as ever...is added to this poisonous mix, Weimar's plunge into dictatorship looks...it? The real wonder is not that Weimar failed but that it lasted as long...
Is this Weimar Russia?(comparing Germany's Weimar Republic to Russia in 1990s)(Abstract)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 11/16/1998; 700+ words ; ...contemporary Russia and Germany's Weimar Republic, which lasted from 1918 to 1933...Otto Meissner.) The precedent of Weimar's failed democracy began worrying...did in the 1920s. But fears of "Weimar Russia" faded in the mid-1990s...
The Weimar Republic.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The Weimar Republic, by Stephen J. Lee. New...conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods...the historiography of the republic. Lee's volume, which...political parties of the Weimar Republic?"; etcetera...
The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, by Ruth...conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods...the historiography of the republic. Lee's volume, which...political parties of the Weimar Republic?"; etcetera...
Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German Fascism.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German...conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the...historiography of the republic. Lee's volume, which...political parties of the Weimar Republic?"; etcetera...
Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic. By Cindy Skach. (Princeton...s turbulent and ill-fated Weimar Republic. Skach's points...that the prolonged agony of Weimar may be attributed to the elements...