Early Weimar Gov
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- Created on: 07-12-16 20:35
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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
- Kaiser's former advisers still in position
- 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.
- Ebert opposed by right wing officials
- How was the Weimar Government born?
- Economic Impacts
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