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9 unusual facts about Weimar Republic


Christina Stresemann

Christina Stresemann is the daughter of Wolfgang Stresemann and granddaughter of liberal statesman Gustav Stresemann, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning German Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic.

David Bergelson

In spring 1921 he moved to Berlin, which would be his base throughout the years of the Weimar Republic, although he traveled extensively through Europe and also visited the United States.

Dick Geary

He is specialized in German History, including the German Empire since 1871, the Weimar Republic and Nazism.

Evelyn Juers

Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Lübeck, Heinrich Mann was one of the leading representatives of Weimar culture.

Konrad Heiden

Konrad Heiden (7 August 1901 – 18 June 1966) was an influential Jewish journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Marianne Breslauer

Marianne Breslauer (married surname Feilchenfeldt, 20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer during the Weimar Republic.

Weimar Republic

The former Ernestine duchies continued briefly as republics before merging to form the state of Thuringia in 1920, except for Saxe-Coburg, which became part of Bavaria.

Weimarer

Weimarer Republik, the German name for the Weimar Republic, a parliamentary republic in Germany from 1919-1933

William Farina

The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music (2013) links the emblematic musical style of the Weimar Republic with the contemporary English-speaking pop vernacular of the late 20th century.


Albert Brackmann

Politically right-wing, he was a member first of the DVP and then of the DNVP during the Weimar Republic, and was joint editor of the prestigious and influential Historische Zeitschrift from 1928 to 1935.

Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner

Posadowsky-Wehner was the candidate of the German National People's Party for the Presidency of Germany in 1919, but he lost to Friedrich Ebert.

Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles

By "refusing to acknowledge Germany's 'war guilt' the new German government implicitly exonerated the old monarchial order" and more importantly failed "to dissociate itself from the old regime."

August Chełkowski

Born in the small village of Telkwice, then in East Prussia (then a part of Weimar Republic) he was a son of Franciszek Chełkowski, a wealthy landowner and prominent activist of the Polish community in Prussia and his wife Emilia (maiden name Mieczkowska).

Berlin Heerstraße station

Due to its direct connection to the city centre the station had occasionally been the site of official receptions: On May 11, 1925 the newly elected Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg arrived here from Hanover, received by Chancellor Hans Luther, to take office the next day.

Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany

This concept of "streitbare Demokratie" (self-defending democracy) was developed as a late response especially to the rise of the NSDAP, but also KPD, that turned the democratic Weimar Republic into the Nazi regime.

Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg

As a result the succession issue could not be resolved in time and the two Mecklenburg grand duchies became separate free states in the Weimar Republic.

Condor Syndikat

On November 17, 1926, a German commercial mission was organized by the Pilot, Engineer and General-Director of Condor Syndikat Fritz W. Hammer, with the presence of Dr. Hans Luther, a former chancellor of the German Reich, at the time of the Weimar Republic took off from Buenos Aires.

Contienen

By 1924 three large docks (Hafenbecken) were built northeast of Contienen and northwest of Nasser Garten to alleviate Königsberg's economic difficulties after the Treaty of Versailles and the separation of East Prussia from Weimar Germany.

Dan Tyler Moore

His houseguest there was Franz von Papen, later Chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic (and Vice Chancellor briefly under Hitler)—von Papen had been Moore's roommate in Germany.

Ebertstraße

After the death of the first President of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert, in 1925, it was renamed Ebertstraße in 1930, but in 1935, under the Nazi regime, it was called Hermann-Göring-Straße, after Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, whose official residence was close by.

Ewiger Wald

The years of the Weimar Republic appeared to be disastrous for people and forest alike to legitimize the assumption of power and thus the film culminated in a National Socialist May Day celebration filmed at the Berlin Lustgarten.

Francis Turville-Petre

In 1928 he moved to Berlin, Germany and stayed at the Institute of Sexual Research, run by Dr Magnus Hirschfeld.

Friedrich Schrader

Schrader spent the last two years of his life in Berlin as freelance journalist, mainly writing for Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ), which was in the early years of the Weimar Republic still a liberal centre-right publication supporting the consolidation of Germany in the Weimar Republic (the foreign policy editor and later editor in chief at that time was Paul Lensch, a former SPD politician and associate of Parvus and Rosa Luxemburg).

Golden Twenties

Before long, the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Gustav Stresemann managed to tame the extreme levels of inflation by the introduction of a new currency, the Rentenmark, with tighter fiscal controls and reduction of bureaucracy, leading to a relative degree of political and economic stability.

Hans Würtz

Hans Würtz, born Johannes Würtz (18 May 1875, Heide, Holstein - 13 July 1958, Berlin) was one of the most influential and controversial figures in German "Krüppelpädagogik" (special education) during the Weimar Republic.

Harry H. Laughlin

The Reichstag of Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in 1933, closely based on Laughlin's model.

Hermann Stehr

During the founding of the Weimar Republic, Stehr appeared as an election speaker for his friend Walther Rathenau, a candidate for the Social Democrats.

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

The hyperinflation episode in the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s was not the first hyperinflation, nor was it the first one in Europe, or even the most extreme inflation in history (the Hungarian pengő and Zimbabwean dollar have both been more inflated).

Joachimsthal, Brandenburg

In changing times, Hubertusstock served as a pleasure ground for men in power: The German Emperors from the House of Hohenzollern indulged in huntsmanship (Wilhelm II had his own train station built), as did the Presidents of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg.

John Hajnal

John Hajnal, FBA (b. 26 November 1924 in Darmstadt, then People's State of Hesse, Weimar Germany – d. 30 November 2008 in London), born John Hajnal-Kónyi, was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics (statistics).

Josef Bürckel

Joseph Bürckel (30 March 1895, Lingenfeld, Germersheim–28 September 1944, Neustadt an der Weinstraße) was a German politician and a member of the German parliament (the Reichstag).

Kampfbund

The Kampfbund ("Battle-league") was a league of patriotic fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s.

Katzenjammer Kabarett

Aesthetically inspired by German Weimar-era cabarets and burlesque shows, the band also chose a name of German origin that literally translates to "cat's wail cabaret" with Katzenjammer also generally meaning "discordant sound" and being used as a synonym for a hangover.

LGBT history in Germany

1929 - On October 16, a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175; the Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote.

Louise Ebert

Louise Ebert (born 1873 in Melchiorshausen/Weyhe as Louise Rump died 1955 in Heidelberg) on May 9, 1894 in Bremen married Friedrich Ebert, who from his election in 1919 until his death on 28 February 1925 served as the first Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic.

MacGregor Knox

On the other hand, he argues that the leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, from Friedrich Ebert to Otto Braun, was the strongest pillar of German democracy under the Weimar Republic.

Neue Rechte

Ideologically, they are linked to the ideologues of the Weimar Conservative Revolution, which included such people as Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler and Ernst von Salomon.

Neuerkirch

Richard Oertel (1860–1932), born in Horn, clergyman and from 1912 to 1918 an elected member of the National Liberal Party in the Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus (Prussian Parliament), and later, in 1919 and 1920 an elected member of the German People's Party (DVP) in the Weimar National Assembly and from 1920 to 1924 a member of the first Weimar Reichstag.

Oskar Speck

A Hamburg electrical contractor made unemployed during the Weimar-period Depression, he left Germany to seek work in the Cypriot copper mines, departing from Ulm and travelling south via the Danube.

Peter Longerich

His major research interests include the history of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Second World War, the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels.

Strike Anywhere

Their logo is similar to the Antifascist Circle and includes the logo of the former socialistic/antifashistic German Iron Front, a paramilitary organization which existed in the last years of the Weimar Republic.

Thomas Elsaesser

In addition to seminars on early cinema, on Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, Elsaesser also initiated a course on the cinema of the Weimar Republic, which he co-taught with his colleague W.G. Sebald.


see also

Prittwitz

Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, German Ambassador to the United States under the Weimar Republic, from 1928 until April 14, 1933