How Serious Were The Challenges To The Weimar Republic 1919-1923 Flashcards
What system of election in the Weimar Republic is blamed for the weakness of the Republic?
Proportional Representation
How many different cabinet were there between February 1919 to January 1933?
20
Who was the first president of Weimar?
Ebert, who died in 1925
What was Hindenburg’s views on the Republic or democracy?
Has little sympathy for either, being a military officer
What was Article 48 of the Weimar constitution?
The president could rule by emergency degree, and suspend the constitution, which happened in 1923-1924 during the Ruhr and hyperinflation crisis and again from 1930-1933
Who was foreign minster from 1923 to 1929?
Gustav Stresemann
Who was army minister from 1920 to 1928?
Otto Gessler
What were historian Richard J. Evans comments on Article 48?
‘Weimar Germany constitution was no worse than the constitution of most other countries in the 1920s’
What led to the resignation of the Independent Socialists of People’s Representatives and the formation of the Spartacists, the foreigners of the Communist or KPD party?
The decision to give power to parliament and a lack of reform after WW1
When did the Spartacists attempt to seize power in Berlin?
January 1919, from 5 to 12 January
What was the problem with the Communist revolt in 1919?
Too few workers, trade unions and Social Democrats supported the rising, with inadequate armed forces and the revolt not spreading, the Spartacists were doomed
Who suppressed the Spartacist uprising?
The Freikorps
Who led the Spartacist uprising?
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
In 1919 where were soviets or workers councils set up?
In cities like Munich and Bremen, though crushed by the Freikorps
When were the KPD able to take much of the Ruhr?
In March 1920
