2.2. Society

Question 1

What percentage of the workforce were women by 1925?

Answer 1

36%

Question 2

What employment rights did women have?

Answer 2

Right to equal pay

Equal civil service employment opportunities

Question 3

How many female doctors were there by 1933?

Answer 3

3,000

Question 4

What attacks were made on married women who worked?

Answer 4

Accused of being ‘double earners’

Question 5

What did demobilisation laws require of women?

Answer 5

They vacate their job for a returning front line soldier

Question 6

Was equal pay actually achieved?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

How many abortions were happening per year by 1930

Answer 7

1 million

Question 8

Why did the birth rate in Germany decline?

Answer 8

Increase in access to birth control

Question 9

What happened to the number of divorces?

Answer 9

Increased

Question 10

How many deaths happened from abortions and why?

Answer 10

10,000 per year

Backstreet abortions due to continuing illegality

Question 11

What attacks were made on women due to declining birth rates?

Answer 11

They were accused of being ‘birth strikers’

Question 12

How many women were elected to the Reichstag in 1919?

Answer 12

41 (higher ratio than the House of Commons)

Question 13

Give 3 examples of how women were still discriminated against in politics

Answer 13

No women in Reichsrat (1958 in House of Lords)
No women in any cabinet (1929 in UK)
No women party leaders (1975 in UK)

Question 14

What parties were most least and most attractive to women and why was this unusual?

Answer 14

KPD least attractive even though offered gender equality.

DVP and DNVP most attractive even though disdained of gender equality

Question 15

What was the 1896 civil code?

Answer 15

Husband controlled family life and could decide if his wife should take employment

Question 16

How many members did the League of German Women have?

Answer 16

900,000

Question 17

Name a prominent female politician from each side of the political divide

Answer 17

Clara Zetkin (KPD,1920-33)
Paula Müller (DNVP, 1920-33)

Question 18

Name 2 youth groups and their membership

Answer 18

Wandervogel (80,000)
Bismarck Youth (40,000)

Question 19

In 1925-6, what proportion of the unemployed were aged 14-21?

Answer 19

17%

Question 20

Give 2 reasons why youth unemployment was so high

Answer 20

Baby boom in 1900s increased competition

Fewer apprenticeships and employment opportunities for those leaving school and not going to Gymnasium schools

Question 21

What did many youths join?

Answer 21

Youth cliques

Question 22

Give 2 ways in which the government helped young people

Answer 22

Benefits

Day centres to give young people employment skills

Question 23

In Hamburg, how much did youth crime fall by between 1917 and 1928?

Answer 23

70%

Question 24

Name 2 prominent Jewish politicians

Answer 24

Walther Rathenau
Hugo Haase
Kurt Eisner (Ratterepublik)
Rosa Luxembourg

Question 25

Who was the Jewish editor of the Berliner Tageblatt?

Answer 25

Theodor Wolff

Question 26

What industries did Jews dominate in Silesia?

Answer 26

Coal, steel and chemicals

Question 27

What proportion of private banks were owned by Jews?

Answer 27

50%

Question 28

Name a big Jewish bank?

Answer 28

Rothschilds

Question 29

What proportion of lawyers were Jews (and in Berlin?)?

Answer 29

16% (50%)

Question 30

What proportion of German Nobel prize winners were Jewish?

Answer 30

24%

Question 31

Give 2 ways that Jews had assimilated?

Answer 31

Married non Jews

Converted to Christianity

Question 32

When did Jewish hatred spark up?

Answer 32

Spartacist uprising (Jewish Bolshevism)
Hyperinflation (Jewish capitalist userers)