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German Reich Deutsches Reich | |||||||||
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| 1918–1933 | |||||||||
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 Weimar Republic in 1930 | |||||||||
 German States in 1925 (Free State of Prussia with its provinces shown in blue) | |||||||||
| Capital | Berlin | ||||||||
| Official languages | German | ||||||||
| Common languages | Official: German Unofficial: Danish, French, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Sorbian, Low German, Frisian, Lithuanian, Yiddish | ||||||||
| Religion | 1925 census 64.1% Protestant (Lutheran, Reformed, United) 32.4% Roman Catholic 0.9% Jewish 2.6% Other | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | German | ||||||||
| Government | 1919–30 Federal semi-presidential constitutional republic 1930–33 De facto authoritarian presidential republic | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1919–25 | Friedrich Ebert | ||||||||
• 1925–33 | Paul von Hindenburg | ||||||||
| Chancellor | |||||||||
• 1919 (first) | Philipp Scheidemann | ||||||||
• 1933 (last) | Adolf Hitler | ||||||||
| Legislature | Bicameral | ||||||||
• State Council | Reichsrat | ||||||||
| Reichstag | |||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• | 9 November 1918 | ||||||||
| 11 August 1919 | |||||||||
• Admitted to the League of Nations | 8 September 1926 | ||||||||
• Government by decree begins | 29 March 1930 | ||||||||
• Hitler appointed Chancellor | 30 January 1933 | ||||||||
| 27 February 1933 | |||||||||
• | 23 March 1933 | ||||||||
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• Total | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||
| 1925 | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
| 62,411,000 | |||||||||
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The Weimar Republic is the name now used for the republic which governed Germany from 1918 to 1933.
Officially it was the German Reich (German: Deutsches Reich): (German: Weimarer Republik [ˈvaɪmaʁɐ ʁepuˈbliːk] (
listen)).
It was also unofficially referred to as the German Republic (German: Deutsche Republik).
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