Weimar 1930-1933 Flashcards
Who was the chancellor from 1928-1930
Hermann Muller
What was Hermann Mullers policy
- Negotiated the Young Plan
- Started Naval Rearmament
- Reduced reparations payments
Why did Muller fail
- Refused unemployment benefits
- Asked for emergency powers but was refused by Hidenburg.
- Break up in the right wing and the left wing of his coalition
- Refused to join the new coalition government in 1930
What did Mullers government signify.
- Started the decline of the legal running of the government in the Weimar Republic
Who was chancellor from 1930-1932
Heinrich Brüning
What was Brunings policy
increased taxation
reduced government expenditure
high tariffs on foreign agricultural products
cutbacks in salaries and unemployment insurance benefits
continued payment of the reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
Why did Bruning fail
- He prevented inflation but
- He lowered the standard of living
- Increased unemployment
- Began using article 48 more - less democratic
Who was chancellor during 1932
Franz Von Papen
What was Papens policy
- lifts the ban on the SA
- Cancels reparations
- Linked with industrialist and the German elite
Why did Papen fail
- Schliecher helped cabinet ministers reject Papens policies
Who was chancellor from 1932-1933
Schliecher
What was Schleicher policy
- Tried to exploit the divide in the Nazi party
- Tried to bring the SA under army control
Why did Schliecher fail
- Fail to form a political alliance with Hitler
- Papen and Hitler formed a coalition and where appointed as vice-chancellor and chancellor
