1. WEIMAR
REPUBLIC
1919-1933

2. BIRTH november 1918
KAISSER Wilhem abdicated in november 1918.

3. BIRTH november 1918
The REPUBLIC was proclamed:
- Democratic parlamentary Republic.
- First President: FRIEDRICH EBERT.
- Wrote in Weimar.

4. OPPOSITION from the left
The success of Lenin in Russia boosted
communist.
SPARTACISTS rebelion: Led by Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
(later renamed
German Communist
Party)
wanted Germany to be run by soviets

5. OPPOSITION from the left

6. OPPOSITION from the left
EBERT asked for help to FREIKORPS
(volunter military units)
they defeated Spartacists

7. OPOSSITION from the
right
- Some people were furious with the Weimar
Republic for having surrendered in the First
World War, and wanted to return to the days
of a German Empire being run by a Kaiser
- March 1920: KAPP PUTSCH: failed copu d

8. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
Treaty of Versailles:
- Germany had to pay reparations.
- Germany lost territories.

9. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
1921 Germany paid 50 million pounds
1922 nothing was paid
FRANCE ocuppied the Ruhr (raw materials)

10. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
To solve the problem of the debt:
Goverment: Expansionary Monetary Policy
INFLATION (devaluation of the
mark)

11. HIPERINFLATION

12. ECONOMIC PROBLEM
The Goverment tried to solve the problem:1924
- new Mark (burned the old one)
- recieved American loans
- negociated the reparation payments

13. WEIMAR PARTIES
- KPD
- Zentrum
- DDP
- SPD