Weimar Republic (Noun)
Meaning
The German republic founded at Weimar in 1919; "The Weimar Republic was overthrown in 1933 and replaced by the Third Reich".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The Weimar Republic was established after World War I as a parliamentary democracy.
- Ebert's moderate social democracy governed the Weimar Republic, with conservative cabinets as its executive power.
- Austrian Marxist theorist Otto Bauer declared in 1921 that "Weimar Germany, together with the so-called dictatorships of Russia and Italy, represent a great historic experience."
- A rise in support for right-wing nationalist and fascist ideologies contributed to the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the early 1930s.
- Despite efforts by moderates like Ebert to prevent extremist takeover, the Weimar Republic came to an end in 1933 with the fall of Berlin to the Nazis.