Early Weimar Gov

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  • Was the Weimar Government doomed from the start?
    • Economic Impacts
      • National income was roughly 1/3 of what is was in 1913
      • War had left around 600,000 widows and 2 million children fatherless
        • In 1925 war pensions were given from 1/3 of the states budget
      • Major shortage in food, nearly 300,000 people died from hypothermia
      • Industrial production was around 2/3 of what it had been in 1913
    • Political Impact
      • Stresses of war led to revolution in October-November 1918
      • Many ex-soldiers and civilians despised the new democratic leaders and believed Hindenburg had been betrayed by weak politicians
    • Social Impact
      • There were huge living standards between the rich and poor.
      • Many German were angry about losing the war, which broke down law and order.
      • Many German workers were bitter at the restrictions placed on their earnings during the war while the owners made vast fortunes
    • Weimar Government
      • How was the Weimar Government born?
        • Made a plan to draw up a new constitution plan.
        • Naval mutiny in Kiel, North German
        • Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated the throne 1918
        • Ebert led the new socialist state and signed  armistice
      • Germans reaction to new republic
        • Ebert opposed by right wing officials
          • Stabbed in the back
          • Wanted the return of the Kaiser
            • Kaiser's former advisers still in position
              • Made it hard for Ebert
        • Ebert also opposed by left wing
          • They wanted a Communist uprising like Russia in 1907
        • Free election help in 1919, Socialist won
          • Ebert became first president of the constutuion.

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