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The Constitution of the German Reich (German: Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs), usually known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung), was the constitution that governed Germany during the Weimar Republic era (1919–1933).
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
During the Weimar period, the protection of fundamental rights was predominantly understood to be the task not of the constitutional courts but of the administrative courts. Article 107 of the constitution provided for the establishment of such a court, but it was not set up until 1941. Accordingly, the court remained ineffective. [citation needed]
The Weimar National Assembly, which was responsible for writing a constitution for a new, democratic Germany following the overthrow of the Hohenzollern monarchy at the end of World War I, had the task of producing a document that would be accepted by both conservatives who wanted to keep the semi-constitutional monarchy of the Empire and people on the left who were looking for a socialist or ...
Four changes in state boundaries occurred following the implementation of the Weimar Constitution on 14 August 1919: [13] The Free State of Thuringia was created on 1 May 1920 from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Gotha and Reuss.
Weimar [a] is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Leipzig, 170 km (106 mi) north of Nuremberg and 170 km (106 mi) west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouring cities of Erfurt and Jena, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia, with ...
This is another situation where the Constitution doesn’t answer the question directly, nor has there been historical precedent for this happening to a president before. It did happen once before ...
Following the introduction of a new constitution (significantly amended later in the year) by an assembly elected in January, [2] and the Weimar Constitution in 1919, Württemberg was re-established as a member state of the German Reich. [3]