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Social Democratic Party Bauer SPD–DDP–Z (Weimar Coalition) Reich Chancellor of the German Reich: 12: Gustav Bauer (1870–1944) 14 August 1919: 26 March 1920 219 days: Social Democratic Party Bauer SPD–DDP–Z (Weimar Coalition) Nat.Ass. 13: Hermann Müller (1876–1931) 27 March 1920 21 June 1920 86 days: Social Democratic Party Müller ...
Chart of the Weimar Constitution. The requirements and responsibilities of the president were laid out in Section III (Articles 41–59) [6] of the Weimar Constitution. Appointment of the government: The president appointed and removed the chancellor and, on the chancellor's recommendation, the members of the cabinet. No vote of confirmation ...
By the final years of World War II, Bormann had emerged as the most powerful minister, not because he was head of the Party Chancellery, which was the basis of his position in the cabinet, but because of his control of access to Hitler in his role as Secretary to the Führer. [11]
The coat of arms of the Weimar Republic shown above is the version used after 1928, which replaced that shown in the "Flag and coat of arms" section. The flag of Nazi Germany shown above is the version introduced after the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and used till 1935, when it was replaced by the swastika flag , similar, but not exactly the same as the flag of the Nazi Party that had ...
In the fourteen years the Weimar Republic was in existence, some forty parties were represented in the Reichstag.This fragmentation of political power was in part due to the use of a peculiar proportional representation electoral system that encouraged regional or small special interest parties [1] and in part due to the many challenges facing the nascent German democracy in this period.
The timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial events ...
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
In the following months, the Nazi Party used a process termed Gleichschaltung (co-ordination) to rapidly bring all aspects of life under control of the party. [2] All civilian organisations, including agricultural groups, volunteer organisations, and sports clubs, had their leadership replaced with Nazi sympathisers or party members.