1924-1929 social & cultural

Question 1

What was the percentage of women in the workforce by 1925?

Answer 1

36%

Question 2

How many female teachers and doctors were there by 1933?

Answer 2

100 000 female teachers
3000 doctors

Question 3

Why did young people join gangs?

Answer 3

• to find comradeship, support, sense of adventure
• unemployment was rising

Question 4

What are some examples of the cliques in Hamburg? Where did they meet?

Answer 4

• Farmers Fear
• Red Apaches
• Death Defiers
• Eagles claw
• Taverns because of alcohol

Question 5

what is the % of unemployment between 1925 -26 and the age group? Why is that?

Answer 5

• 17% between 1925 and 1926
• age group 14-21
• Because of baby boom between 1900 and 1910

Question 6

What was the old Civil Code of 1896?

Answer 6

Men had rights to decide on all matters within a marriage, even if a woman took paid employment

Question 7

How involved were women in politics in the 1920s?

Answer 7

• No female representatives in Reichstrat
• No female cabinet members
• No female leader of a political party
• Only KPD made gender equality a key element

Question 8

What rights did women receive from the Weimar Constitution?

Answer 8

• Voting rights
• Access to education
• Equal oppurtunities in civil service appointments
• Right to equal pay

Question 9

What change in gender balance was there after the war?

Answer 9

• Over 2 million germans killed during war so there were fewer opportunities for young women to follow path of marriage and children

Question 10

What was the most popular womans group 1920s?

Answer 10

• League of German Women (BDF)
• 900 000 members in 1920s
• Traditional family values and responsibilities

Question 11

what types of young people turned to crime and what did they do?

Answer 11

• Working class families
• Didnt attend highly selected gymnasium schools
• Meant to leave school at 14 to start apprenticeship; instead youth unemployment increased

Question 12

Why can it be argued women didnt receive equality?

Answer 12

• Many forced to give up employment when married
• Paid less compared to men
• Women continuing to do paid work seen as “double earners”
• ## Blamed for male unemployment

Question 13

What became widely available for women?

Answer 13

• birth control

Question 14

What rates increased? What does it show?

Answer 14

• Divorce rates
• that women had more freedom rather than being stuck in marriages

Question 15

By 1930, how many estimated abortions were there in a year?

Answer 15

1 million

Question 16

How many deaths were there from abortion by 1930 and why?

Answer 16

• Criminal offence
• Performed by unqualified people
• 10-12 000 deaths

Question 17

What problems were there im the education system before Weimar government?

Answer 17

• Divided along religious lines
• Divided along class lines
• Reformers didnt succeed in removing influence of church from school
• Protestant and catholic churches had powerful influence over religious education

Question 18

How did the Weimar Republic solve the education problems 1920s?

Answer 18

• Wanted schools to be more standardised
• Introduced elementary schools for all children attending for first 4 years
• Whoever passed entrance exam would go to gymnasium
• aimed for non sectarian education + free to all pupils