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Hans Speidel (28 October 1897 – 28 November 1984) was a German military officer who successively served in the armies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany and West Germany.
Experienced leaders came from the 'Old Army' of the Empire. In 1927, 20% of the officers were from the former nobility, [27] down from 30% in 1913. [28] This continued the long-term trend of a reduction in the percentage of noble officers. Large parts of the officer corps held a conservative, monarchist worldview and rejected the Weimar ...
The president of Germany (German: Reichspräsident, lit. 'president of the Reich') was the head of state under the Weimar Constitution, which was officially in force from 1919 to 1945, encompassing the periods of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
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 ...
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.
Fourteen deputies, headed by party co-leader Hugo Haase, and including Karl Liebknecht, spoke out against the bonds but nevertheless followed party discipline and voted in favour. [11] The support was based primarily on the belief, actively fostered by the government, that Germany was fighting a defensive war. [ 12 ]
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 ...
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 ...