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The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was the lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat, which represented the states. The Reichstag convened for the first time on 24 June 1920, taking over from the Weimar National Assembly , which had served as an interim parliament following the collapse of the German ...
t. e. The Weimar Republic, [c] officially known as the German Reich, [d] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
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The Reichstag met throughout the First World War, but was prevented from sitting during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Its last session took place on 26 October 1918. Its successors were the Weimar National Assembly (February 1919 to June 1920), followed by the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic that met for the first time in June of 1920.
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power. Hitler used the Reichstag fire in 1933 to seize almost unlimited power. Wikimedia Commons ...
Parliament. The Reichstag, elected for a four-year term, was the central legislative body under the Constitution of the Weimar Republic. Its main functions were legislation, including approval of the budget, and scrutiny of the Reich Government. It organised its work by means of a system of permanent committees.
The Reichstag (" Diet of the Realm "), [2] officially the Greater German Reichstag (German: Großdeutscher Reichstag) after 1938, was the national parliament of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Following the Nazi seizure of power and the enactment of the Enabling Act of 1933, it functioned purely as a rubber stamp for the actions of Adolf Hitler ...
The Weimar Reichstag (the German parliament or assembly) was notorious for its division, instability and ineffectiveness. Historians often cite these conditions as a contributing factor to rising extremism in Weimar Germany. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germans had grown accustomed to a strong, stable and decisive government.
