German Reich Deutsches Reich | |||||||||
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1918–1933 | |||||||||
Motto: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" "Unity and Justice and Freedom" | |||||||||
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![]() Weimar Republic in 1930 | |||||||||
![]() German States in 1925 (Free State of Prussia with its provinces shown in blue) | |||||||||
Capital | Berlin | ||||||||
Official languages | German | ||||||||
Common languages | Official: German Unofficial: | ||||||||
Religion | 1925 census[1] 64.1% Protestant (Lutheran, Reformed, United) 32.4% Roman Catholic 0.9% Jewish 2.6% Other | ||||||||
Demonym(s) | German | ||||||||
Government | 1919–30 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 | ||||||||
Legislature | Bicameral | ||||||||
• State Council | Reichsrat | ||||||||
Reichstag | |||||||||
Historical era | Interwar 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 |
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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] (listen)).
It was also unofficially referred to as the German Republic (Deutsche Republik).