WEIMAR REPUBLIC1919-1933
BIRTH november 1918KAISSER Wilhem abdicated in november 1918.
BIRTH november 1918The REPUBLIC was proclamed:
- Democratic parlamentary Republic.
- First President: FRIEDRICH EBERT.
- Wrote in Weimar.
OPPOSITION from the leftThe success of Lenin in Russia boosted
communist.
SPARTACISTS rebelion: Led by Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht(later renamed
German Communist
Party)
wanted Germany to be run by soviets
OPPOSITION from the left
OPPOSITION from the leftEBERT asked for help to FREIKORPS
(volunter military units)
they defeated Spartacists
OPOSSITION from the right
- Some people were furious with the Weimar
Republic for having surrendered in the First
World War, and wanted to return to the days of a
German Empire being run by a Kaiser
- March 1920: KAPP PUTSCH: failed copu d
´etat
ECONOMIC PROBLEMSTreaty of Versailles:
- Germany had to pay reparations.
- Germany lost territories.
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS1921 Germany paid 50 million pounds
1922 nothing was paid
FRANCE ocuppied the Ruhr (raw materials)
ECONOMIC PROBLEMSTo solve the problem of the debt:
Goverment: Expansionary Monetary Policy
INFLATION (devaluation of the mark)
problem: HIPERINFLATION 1923
HIPERINFLATION
ECONOMIC PROBLEMThe Goverment tried to solve the problem:1924
- new Mark (burned the old one)
- recieved American loans
- negociated the reparation payments
WEIMAR PARTIES- KPD
- Zentrum
- DDP
- SPD
- NSDAP