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Hace 3 días · Between 1919 and 1933, the Weimar Republic witnessed a revolving door of governments, with a total of 21 cabinets and 14 chancellors. This political instability was further exacerbated by the frequent use of Article 48 of the constitution, which granted the president extensive emergency powers to bypass the parliament and rule by decree. As historian Erich Eyck notes, "The Weimar Republic was ...
Hace 4 días · El presidente federal alerta de “las fuerzas” que incitan a la violencia para sembrar miedo y socavar los derechos conseguidos en 1949
Hace 2 días · On 19 January 1919, Germans voted for representatives to a constituent national assembly in an election that included women for the first time. The SPD received the highest percentage of votes (38%), and with the Catholic Centre Party and the liberal German Democratic Party, it formed the Weimar Coalition.
Hace 1 día · Chart of the Weimar Constitution of 11 August 1919. It replaced the law concerning the provisional Reich power of 10 February 1919.
Hace 4 días · For a long time the historiography of Germany’s Weimar Republic has been stuck in a simple dichotomy of cultural experimentation and political and economic crisis. For generations of students and scholars the first German republic was seen as an ill-fated experiment in parliamentary democracy, an inherently flawed polity unloved by its citizens, fatally undermined from the outset by the ...
Hace 2 días · The German revolution of 1918–19 was one of the defining episodes of the 20th century. It was not only the outcome of a country’s defeat in the greatest war that humanity had ever witnessed, but also the result of the efforts of important social and political forces that had long strived for democracy, liberty, and social equality.
Hace 4 días · Creada por el Tratado de Versalles en 1919, junto con la Liga de Naciones, la OIT atravesó la Segunda Guerra Mundial con sus principios, métodos y objetivos no solo intactos sino reiterados y reforzados.
