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Willkommen in der Kulturstadt Weimar: Informationen zur Stadt, Sehenswürdigkeiten, offizielle Tourist-Information, Rathaus und Wirtschaft.
Nov 26, 2016 · In 1933, leaders of the last of Weimar’s always shaky coalition governments offered the Chancellorship to Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s National Socialist German Worker’s Party had won 51 percent of the electorate in March; the right-wing members of the Weimar coalition thought they could use and control the upstart Hitler and his street-brawlers.
Weimar Republic - Hyperinflation, Political Turmoil, Social Unrest: The “Weimar coalition” of the Social Democrats, Centre, and Democrats, which had been the basis of Scheidemann’s ministry (February–June 1919), was reestablished by Bauer when the Democrats joined his government in October 1919 and maintained by Hermann Müller (also a Social Democrat) when he took Bauer’s place as ...
It was in the lifetime of Duchess Anna Amalia (1739-1809) that Weimar’s Classical period began. She appointed the poet Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) as tutor to her sons in 1772. It was after Carl August (1757-1828) had succeeded to the Duchy that Johann Wolfgang Goethe settled in the town (1775). Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803 ...
hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, economic disaster in the Weimar Republic in 1922–23 that impoverished millions of German citizens and paved the way for the rise of the Nazi Party. During World War I, prices in Germany had doubled, but that was just the start of the country’s economic troubles. In 1914, Germany abandoned its gold ...
8–9 November: The Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt led by Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff to overthrow the Weimar Republic, fails in Munich. [61] 15 November: Germany's period of hyperinflation ends with the introduction of the Rentenmark. [62] 23 November: The Stresemann government falls on a vote of no confidence.
NARRATOR: With Parliament blocking itself, the state is increasingly steered by the aging World War I General Paul von Hindenburg. The Weimar Constitution gives the President far-reaching powers. Democrats also support Hindenburg's election. THEODOR ESCHENBURG: "He was the lesser evil for the left. In the conservative, old Hindenburg, one saw ...
