The Weimar Republic: 1919

• Elections were held


  Jan. & Feb. 1919
• Resulting assembly, meeting in Weimar


  Drew up a constitution for the newly established Weimar Republic
• Weimar Republic

  • Germany was now a democracy (with universal male & female suffrage)
  • Germany was now a republic (Ebert was elected President)
  • Germany would remain a federal state
• Flag of Weimar Republic


  Same black, red & gold carried by the Lutzow volunteers at Leipzig in 1813
• Rampant hyperinflation in 1923


  Right-wing nationalists, like Adolf Hitler, judged the new republic was led by 'November Criminals' who had lost Germany the war
• Economic & political divisions remained