Weimar Facts Flashcards
What percentage of the vote did the ‘Weimar Coalition’ get in the June 1920 elections?
44.6%- (the fact that the majority of the Reichstag did not support Weimar suggests a weakness.)
The loan given by the Dawes plan?
800 million reichsmarks
Number of assassinations committed by sympathisers of the right 1919 to 1922?
354/376
Number of assassinations committed by sympathisers of the left 1919 to 1922?
22/376
Number of people who protested against Kapp Putsch?
700,000
By 1928 what percentage of people supported pro-Weimar parties?
76%
Nazi vote in 1928 election?
2.6%
Communist Party vote in 1928 election?
10.6%
National income in 1928 compared to 1913?
12%
Percentage rise in exports between 1925 and 1929?
40%
How many billions of marks were loaned to Germany between 1924 and 1930?
25.5 billion marks
Percentage vote for the 1929 DNVP/Nazi referendum opposing the Young Plan?
13.9%
SPD and USPD percentage votes in the 1919 election to the constituent assembly? (right after the spartacist rising)
SPD- 37.9%
USPD- 7.6%
(suggests Weimar was stronger than it seemed)
USPD vote compared to SPD vote in 1920 elections?
SPD-21.6%
USPD- 18%
Number of radio listeners 1924 to 1932?
1924- 10,000
1932- 4 million
Unemployment, 1921, 1925 and 1929?
1921- 1.8%
1925- 3.4%
1929- 8.5%
Fee paying nazi members 1925 and 1929?
1925- 27,000
1929- 178,000
Agricultural production in 1929 compared to pre war levels?
74% of pre war levels
KPD and NSDAP percentage votes in May and December 1924 Reichstag elections?
KPD: May 12.6%, Dec 9%
NSDAP: May 6.5%. Dec 3%
Number of homeless people after Great depression?
between 200,000 and 500,000
Number of unemployed 1928 and 1932?
1928- 1,862,000
1932- 6,042,000
