Back Republiek van Weimar Afrikaans Weimarer Republik ALS Republica de Weimar AN جمهورية فايمار Arabic جمهورية فايمار ARZ República de Weimar AST Veymar Respublikası Azerbaijani وایمار جومهوریتی AZB Веймар республикаһы Bashkir Веймарская рэспубліка Byelorussian
German Reich Deutsches Reich | |||||||||
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| 1918–1933 | |||||||||
| Motto: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" "Unity and Justice and Freedom" | |||||||||
| Anthem: | |||||||||
 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 | ||||||||
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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).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Das Deutsche Reich im Überblick". Wahlen in der Weimarer Republik. Retrieved 26 April 2007.