WEIMAR REPUBLIC1919-1933

BIRTH november 1918KAISSER Wilhem abdicated in november 1918.

BIRTH november 1918The REPUBLIC was proclamed:

- Democratic parlamentary Republic.

- First President: FRIEDRICH EBERT.

- Wrote in Weimar.

OPPOSITION from the leftThe success of Lenin in Russia boosted

communist.

SPARTACISTS rebelion: Led by Rosa Luxemburg

Karl Liebknecht(later renamed

German Communist

Party)

wanted Germany to be run by soviets

OPPOSITION from the left

OPPOSITION from the leftEBERT asked for help to FREIKORPS

(volunter military units)

they defeated Spartacists

OPOSSITION from the right

- Some people were furious with the Weimar

Republic for having surrendered in the First

World War, and wanted to return to the days of a

German Empire being run by a Kaiser

- March 1920: KAPP PUTSCH: failed copu d

´etat

ECONOMIC PROBLEMSTreaty of Versailles:

- Germany had to pay reparations.

- Germany lost territories.

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS1921 Germany paid 50 million pounds

1922 nothing was paid

FRANCE ocuppied the Ruhr (raw materials)

ECONOMIC PROBLEMSTo solve the problem of the debt:

Goverment: Expansionary Monetary Policy

INFLATION (devaluation of the mark)

problem: HIPERINFLATION 1923

HIPERINFLATION

ECONOMIC PROBLEMThe Goverment tried to solve the problem:1924

- new Mark (burned the old one)

- recieved American loans

- negociated the reparation payments

WEIMAR PARTIES- KPD

- Zentrum

- DDP

- SPD

- NSDAP