Question

Explain the birth of Weimar republic and its failiur

Answer 1

The Weimar Republic was Germany’s government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany. It was named after the town of Weimar where Germany’s new government was formed by a national assembly From its uncertain beginnings to a brief season of success and then a devastating depression, the Weimar Republic experienced enough chaos to position Germany for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Answer 2

Answer:

The defeat of Imperial Germany and the abdication of the emperor gave an opportunity to parliamentary

parties to recast German polity. A National Assembly met at Weimar and established a democratic

constitution with a federal structure.

 The Weimar constitution had some inherent defects, which made it unstable

and vulnerable to dictatorship. One defect was proportional representation. This made achieving a

majority by any one party a near impossible task, which led to a rule by coalitions.

 Another defect was Article 48, which gave the President the powers to impose emergency,

suspend civil rights and rule by decree.

 Within its short life, the Weimar Republic saw twenty different cabinets (governments) lasting on an

average 239 days, and a liberal use of Article 48. People lost confidence in the democratic parliamentary

system, which seemed to offer no solutions except Hitler.