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Also Known As German Republic
Date August 11, 1919 - January 30, 1933

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Scheidemann, Philipp
World War I armistice
Groener, Wilhelm
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht
Friedrich Ebert
Changes in European-administered territories in Africa and the Middle East, 1910–23
Treaty of Versailles
Bauer, Gustav
Birth of the Weimar Republic
What were the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles?
What led to the fall of Germany's Weimar Republic?
How did Hitler seize power in Germany?
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“Big Four”
Treaty of Versailles
Bank run during the Weimar Republic hyperinflation crisis
hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic
Pact of Locarno
Pact of Locarno
Treaty of Rapallo
Weimar Renaissance

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Germany
Germany
Belvedere Castle
Weimar
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Key People

Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
chancellor of Germany
Friedrich Ebert, c. 1924.
Friedrich Ebert
president of Weimar Republic
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg
German president
Carl Schmitt
German jurist and political theorist
Franz von Papen
Franz von Papen
German statesman
Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau
German statesman
Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning
German statesman
Hans Luther
Hans Luther
German statesman
Cuno, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Cuno
German chancellor
Wolfgang Kapp
Wolfgang Kapp
Prussian politician
Groener, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Groener
German general and politician
Wirth, Joseph
Joseph Wirth
chancellor of Germany
Hermann Müller
chancellor of Germany
Neurath, Konstantin, baron von
Konstantin, baron von Neurath
German official
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher
German army officer
Gustav Noske
Gustav Noske
German politician
Gustav Radbruch, 1902.
Gustav Radbruch
German jurist
Bauer, Gustav
Gustav Bauer
chancellor of Germany
Severing, Carl
Carl Severing
German politician
Eduard Heinrich David
German politician