Weimar Republic

Examples of Weimar Republic in the following topics:

• The Weimar Republic

• German Bauhaus Art

  • Germany's defeat in World War I, the fall of the German monarchy, and the abolition of censorship under the new, liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge in artistic experimentation.
  • The school existed in three German cities: Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933, under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 andLudwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from theNazi regime, having being painted as a centre of communist intellectualism.

• Neue Sachlichkeit

  • The New Objectivity (in German: Neue Sachlichkeit) is a term used to characterize the attitude of public life in Weimar Germany, as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it.
  • As these artists rejected the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists, Weimar intellectuals in general made a call to arms for public collaboration, engagement, and rejection of romantic idealism.
  • The movement essentially ended in 1933 with the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power.

• Hitler's Germany

  • Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933.
  • The party platform included removal of the Weimar Republic, rejection of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, radical antisemitism, and anti-Bolshevism.
  • In March 1933, the Enabling Act, an amendment to the Weimar Constitution, passed in the Reichstag by a vote of 444 to 94.

• France at the End of the Interwar Period

  • From 1925 until his death in 1932, Aristide Briand, as prime minister during five short intervals, directed French foreign policy, using his diplomatic skills and sense of timing to forge friendly relations with Weimar Germany as the basis of a genuine peace within the framework of the League of Nations.
  • As a response to the failure of the Weimar Republic to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I, France occupied the industrial region of the Ruhr as a means of ensuring repayments from Germany.

• German Expressionism

  • Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War and remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin.

• Italy and Germany

  • The party platform included removal of the Weimar Republic, rejection of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, radical antisemitism, and anti-Bolshevism.
  • In March 1933, the Enabling Act, an amendment to the Weimar Constitution, passed in the Reichstag by a vote of 444 to 94.
  • The Nazis continued social welfare policies initiated by the governments of the Weimar Republic and mobilized volunteers to assist those impoverished, "racially-worthy" Germans through the National Socialist People's Welfare organization. 

• War Debts and Reparations

  • Germans (between 1919 and 1933 referred to as Weimar Republic) viewed the Article 231 and the resulting reparations requirement as a national humiliation.

• The Second French Republic

• The Soviet Socialist Republics