Weimar Republic

German Reich
Deutsches Reich
1918–1933
Motto: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
"Unity and Justice and Freedom"
Anthem: 
"Das Lied der Deutschen"
"Song of the Germans"
(1922-1945)
Weimar Republic in 1930
Weimar Republic in 1930
German States in 1925 (Free State of Prussia with its provinces shown in blue)
German States in 1925 (Free State of Prussia with its provinces shown in blue)
CapitalBerlin
Official languagesGerman
Common languagesOfficial:
German
Religion
1925 census[1]
64.1% Protestant (Lutheran, Reformed, United)
32.4% Roman Catholic
0.9% Jewish
2.6% Other
Demonym(s)German
Government1919–30 Federal
semi-presidential
constitutional republic
1930–33 De facto authoritarian
presidential republic
President 
• 1919–25
Friedrich Ebert
• 1925–33
Paul von Hindenburg
Chancellor 
• 1919 (first)
Philipp Scheidemann
• 1933 (last)
Adolf Hitler
LegislatureBicameral
• State Council
Reichsrat
Reichstag
Historical eraInterwar period
• Established
9 November 1918
11 August 1919
• Admitted to the League of Nations
8 September 1926
• Government by decree begins
29 March 1930
• Hitler appointed Chancellor
30 January 1933
27 February 1933
23 March 1933
Area
• Total
468,787 km2 (181,000 sq mi)
1925[2]1,933 km2 (746 sq mi)
Population
• 1925[2]
62,411,000
Currency
Preceded by
Succeeded by
German Empire
Nazi Germany

The Weimar Republic is the name now used for the republic which governed Germany from 1918 to 1933.

Officially it was the German Reich (Deutsches Reich): (German: Weimarer Republik [ˈvaɪmaʁɐ ʁepuˈbliːk] (audio speaker iconlisten)).

It was also unofficially referred to as the German Republic (Deutsche Republik).

  1. Volume 6. Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933 Population by Religious Denomination (1910–1939) Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch, Volume III, Materialien zur Statistik des Deutschen Reiches 1914–1945, edited by Dietmar Petzina, Werner Abelshauser, and Anselm Faust. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1978, p. 31. Translation: Fred Reuss.
  2. "Das Deutsche Reich im Überblick". Wahlen in der Weimarer Republik. Retrieved 26 April 2007.

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