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WEIMAR GERMANY 1919-1933

WEIMAR GERMANY 1919-1933. Frederic EBERT Was the first president of Germany. WOMEN VOTING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GERMANY 1919. FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY. Bloodless Revolution 1918 Kaiser fled to Holland and a republic was proclaimed

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WEIMAR GERMANY 1919-1933

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  1. WEIMAR GERMANY1919-1933 Frederic EBERT Was the first president of Germany WOMEN VOTING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GERMANY 1919

  2. FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY • Bloodless Revolution 1918 • Kaiser fled to Holland and a republic was proclaimed • A new constitution was written in the small town of Weimar.

  3. GERMAN PARLIAMENT

  4. CIVIL UNREST IN GERMANY • Democracy was new and untested • The German Civilian Population was Unhappy Because: • Post War recession • Germany had lost the war (people blamed the Gov’t) • Treaty of Versailles • War Guilt Clause • Lack of food and supplies

  5. Three Attempted Revolutions in Germany • On January 1, 1919 the communists Party (Spartacists) attempted to executed a short-lived communist revolution in Berlin • Ebert ordered the army and the FreiKorps to crush the revolution. • Luxemburg and Liebknecht, were killed and their bodies dumped in a river. Hundreds of Spartacists were executed in the weeks following the uprising.

  6. FREI KORP FIGHTING SPARTACISTS COMMUNISTS (SPARTACISTS) Liebknecht ROSA LUXEMBRUG

  7. 2. KAPP PUTSCH • Parts of the military seized Berlin and appointed Kapp as Chancellor • This coup was stopped when the public staged a general strike of protest. WolfgangKAPP

  8. 3. BEER HALL PUTSCH ORMUNICH PUTSCH 1923 • National Socialist German Workers Party • 1923 During the Ruhr Occupation, Hitler Led his march on Munich • Hitler and Ludendorff were arrested • Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison (served 9 months) • He wrote “MEIN KAMPF” YOUNG HITLER NAZIS MARCHING TO TOWN HALL

  9. FRENCH OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR • In 1923 Germany stopped paying reparations • France and Belgium sent troops to the Ruhr (coal, steel, industry) To collect reparations and cripple the German economy • German workers went on strike in the Ruhr

  10. RESULTS OF THE OCCUPATION: • Strikes in Germany • Beer Hall Putsch • Sympathy for Germany • DAWES PLAN – Reparations were renegotiated (1923) USA loans available to Germany • YOUNG PLAN 1929 – Payment plan for decreased reparations • Gustav Stressman (German foreign Minister and Chancellor) ended the strikes (French Troops left in 1925)

  11. GERMAN HYPER INFLATION • German currency “de-valued” dramatically • Inflation increased in the “thousands of % • German money became worthless • Eventually the currency was replaced with a new currency • (Rentenmark) MILLION MARK NOTE USING MONEY FOR FIRE WOOD

  12. GOLDEN YEARS FOR GERMANY 1923-28 • Stresemann became Chancellor of Germany • 1. He stabilized the German currency • 2. Ordered the workers back in the Ruhr • 3. Germany continued to pay reparations • 4. Negotiated the Young and Dawes Plans • 5. Joined the league of Nations • 6. Signed the Lacarno Treaties Stresemann Stresemann at the League of Nations

  13. LOCARNO PACT 1925 • Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Polandsigned treaties in Locarno Switzerland. • settled security issues from World War I. (Germany promised not to attack anyone) • confirmed Germany’s borders with France and Belgium. (from the Treaty of Versailles) • Germany also signed agreements on borders with her eastern neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia. • The Lacarno Pact made it possible for Germany to enter the League of Nations. • This commenced an era of international harmony

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