Weimar Republic Failure

First, the defeat of WWI was not just the beginning of the Weimar Republic but could be considered a catalyst to its downfall as well. During the later stages of WWI

Thus, a series of parties against the Weimar gained power, although through coalition, reducing the power of the already fragile Republic. Here we can see the system of parliamentary democracy was a factor in the collapse of the Weimar. The series of economic crisis’ which affected post World War One Germany assisted in both the fall of the Weimar and the rise of Hitler. The Treaty of Versailles left the country with extremely large debts and when Germany did not keep up with payments, the French responded by invading the Ruhr, an industrial region in Germany, resulting in a general strike and ruining the middle class who would eventually make up the foundation of Nazi supporters.

During the hardship of the 1920s and1930s, political incompetence was highlighted, the Weimar Government proved its incompetence time and time again. .The instability of the Weimar Republic was so great that the average life-span of Reich cabinets was from 6-7 months. Their incapability of providing justice to outbreaks of violence, such as political assassinations is one example of the incompetence of the Weimar Republic. When Germany found its self in undesirable economical situations due to the Treaty of Versalles, they printed money to pay off reparations, which resulted in super-inflation. During the period of super-inflation people’s life savings became worthless which contributed to the downward circle of a reduction in standard of living. As unemployment rose and people began to afford less and less with their money, people commenced searching for a better alternative to the Weimar Government. Hitler’s ability to build upon these feelings whilst offering security, prosperity and full employment, convinced Germany, in a state of disillusionment, to support the nazi party. The Weimar’s instability contributed to the collapse of the Weimar republic provided perfect conditions for the nazi party to rise to power.

1) Germany before the Fuhrer. Germany’s defeat at the end of World War I left the nation socially, politically, and economically shattered. The reparation agreements inflicted upon Germany without its’ consent at the end of the war meant that the nation was in complete financial ruin. In the wake of Germany’s defeat, public decent climaxed on the 9th November 1918 during the revolution that took place on Berlin’s Postdamer Platz. This revolution transpired as a result of the public’s culminating discontent towards the imperial monarchy, and lasted up until August 1919, which saw the establishment of the Weimar Republic. In attempts to guide Germany out of economic

The collapsement of the Weimar Republic was due to many social, political and economical issues within. From its birth it faced numerous political problems, for which the causes were many and varied. These problems included political instability, deep divisions within society and economic crisis; problems were constantly appearing for the new government. The Weimar Republic never really had a stable political party, having a whole six different parties between 1924-1928 does not create stability. Many of these parties were also narrowly sectioned, with messed up

The Failure of Democracy in Germany in the Period 1928 to 1934 Those in power in Weimar Germany so consistently mishandled the political and economic situation leading up to the period 1928-1934, that a well-structured challenge from the Nazi Party brought about the fall of democracy. This Nazi Party was stronger ideologically, structurally within the party and politically, with Hitler as Fuhrer a major factor himself. In addition, factions within Germany for whom a right-wing political system was more beneficial, such as the army and big business, aided the eventual change in governance. Thus a series of events occurred which can be summarised by these three main factors: failure of the Weimar

Gustav Stresemann created the Weimar Republic after 1923 when the world war had ended. Gustav was trying to provocative, and find way to make Germany a better place to live. The Weimar Republic was conducting many problems, not only for them but for Germany and many other countries. Many believe that the “weakness within” was the biggest issue the Weimar had after the war. Since Weimar Republic was going through a lot of stress, the presidents and the armies began to have a great deal of power. The Reichstag was beginning to lose power as well. As a matter or fact, in the 1930’s Berlin, Germany might’ve had a few altercation, or people that were out to get them, just to let them know

The signing of the Versaille Treaty after the closing World War One brought about a new era for democracy. Included in that new era was Germany’s Weimar Republic. This new republic was set up and regulated by the Allies, but was controlled by the German Government. One would think that since the Weimar Republic mocked that of the United States’, then it should work efficiently and smoothly enough to last more than 14 years. That common belief, however, is wrong because a democracy isn’t based off of the government, but rather the people that make up the government. In order for a democracy to thrive, the average citizen has to be an active member of society by working daily to keep money moving. There is one flaw with this part of democracy because if the average citizen cannot get a job, then money stops changing hands and the economy starts

The Weimar Republic was set up mainly to help Germany out of their economic crisis at that time. Germany lost a lot of its land and the German people very

Since the Weimar Republic was established in the aftermath of World War One, it was almost inevitable that it would be blamed for Germanys surrender and the Treaty of Versailles. The supposed surrender was even harder to accept since in 1918 Germany had signed an armistice with Russia. Weimar was in essence ‘brought about by defeat’ . The ‘November Criminals’ who signed the armistice were always associated with Weimar, thus making it difficult for Weimar to be associated with anything but defeat and humiliation. The war guilt clause was also difficult to accept because it lay all the blame on Germany for starting the First World War. This along with reparations were crippling not only the economy but German society itself

After the First World War ended in 1918, Germany was in a chaos. Although the Allies offered peace, they demanded a democratic government in Germany. The Kaiser abdicated the throne while Ebert formed the Weimar Republic and established the constitution in 1919. However the establishment of this government was unstable with opposition from both left and right wings. Even more, the German Parliament (Reichstag) relied on the cooperation of the coalitions of governments which resulted in political weakness of this new democratic system because these coalitions often broke up. Yet, the Weimar Republic was still able to survive through these years until 1929 as it was relatively stable before the Wall Street Crash. However, the

Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start? The Weimar Republic from its establishment in 1919 following through to its decline in the Great depression (excluding the Golden Era) had many flaws and failures politically that didn’t appease the general public nor parties that favoured them over groups that was extreme/unethical for Germany such as the Nazi party. A major part that sent Weimar to their doom was signing the Treaty of Versailles on the 28th July 1919, this seemed the ultimate betrayal from the Republic and angered Monarchists such as the Freikorps.

The collapse of the Weimar Republic can not be seen as solely indebted to the severe economic problems faced during the period of its rule, but consequently it was the economic issues that became a footstep to the ultimate demise of the Republic. Subsequent to Germany’s defeat in the First World War and German Emperor Kaiser’s abdication from power, the Weimar Republic was proclaimed. The Republic that had emerged from the German Revolution of November 1918 would inevitably fall as a result of numerous issues. However, the extent of which economic problems had in the dissolution of the republic, and how these issues caused or came about due to separate concerns faced by the new democratic system became a major contributing factor.

Before the Terror in Revolutionary France, poor people who made up the eighty percent of the French population were starving and dying. However, the nobles and the king were living the life. The poor seeing this, had such anger and vengeance that they planned and successfully overthrew the throne. Overthrowing of the throne led to many changes that eventually led to the terror of the Revolutionary France. In Weimar Germany, similar circumstances happened in Germany like it did in France. The poor were starving and dying, however it was due to World War I that this was happening. Germany became slow going in trying to get themselves back up. When Weimar Germany was doing well, poor loved democracy, when their country wasn’t doing well, they hated democracy. Politics were ran by the rest of the population’s emotions, with that, the authoritarian party slowly persuaded the poor to see their side in taking over the Social Republic government in Germany. Both countries had similarities where they succumbed to tyranny when most of the population were unemployed, broke and wanted a change so they economy could run again. However, what led to the terror of revolutionary France was that there was too much internal and external opposition on how they wanted France to be ran. While in Weimar Germany, the Nazis was able to take over slowly without anybody knowing any the wiser.

The weakness of the Weimar Republic are for instance the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on the Germans causing a chain of disaster for Germany. Examples are the ‘war guilt clause’, the Germans particularly hated this because they thought that the blame for the war should’ve been shared. Because Germany got the blame for the war they were expected to pay for the reparations for all the damage caused in the war. Germany’s economy