The Weimar constitution

• • SPD and ZP won the largest number of seats in the National Constituent Assembly and therefore had the greatest influence over the new constitution.
  • election took place in January 1919
  • discussions about the new constitution started in February and by August that year the new constitution was accepted as the basis of German gov
• • assembly met in the city of Weimar
  • Hitler, an opponent of the new constitution, nicknamed the new republic the Weimar Republic