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Kaufman, Walter (1973), Monarchism in the Weimar Republic, New York: Octagon Books. Peukert, Detlev (1987), The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity, New York: Hill and Wang. West, Franklin, (1985), A Crisis of the Weimar Republic: The German Referendum of 20 June 1926, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society.
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 second round of the 1925 German presidential election was thus not a contest between the DVP's Karl Jarres (1st place) and the SPD's Otto Braun (2nd place), who both belonged to parties which accepted the political system of the Weimar Republic, but was a three-person race between the Centre Party's Wilhelm Marx (3rd place in the first ...
The Fehrenbach cabinet, headed by Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach of the Centre Party, was the fourth democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 25 June 1920 when it replaced the first cabinet of Hermann Müller , which had resigned due to the poor showing of the coalition parties in the June 1920 elections to ...
Waldeck state elections in the Weimar Republic; Template:Weimar Republic Electoral Districts; Weser-Ems (electoral district) Westphalia North (electoral district) Westphalia South (electoral district) Württemberg (electoral district) Württemberg Landtag elections in the Weimar Republic
Elections in Germany include elections to the Bundestag (Germany's federal parliament), the Landtags of the various states, and local elections.. Several articles in several parts of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany govern elections and establish constitutional requirements such as the secret ballot, and the requirement that all elections be conducted in a free and fair manner.
In the third nationwide step, parties could not be awarded more seats than they had already won on the two lower constituency levels. Due to the fixed number of votes per seat, the size of the Reichstag fluctuated between elections based on the number of voters and turnout. [3] The voting age was 20 years. People who were incapacitated ...
The second Brüning cabinet, headed by Heinrich Brüning of the Centre Party, was the eighteenth democratically elected government during the Weimar Republic. It took office on 10 October 1931 when it replaced the first Brüning cabinet , which had resigned the day before under pressure from President Paul von Hindenburg to move the cabinet ...