Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke ( September 15, 1834 – April 28, 1896 ) was a German historian, political writer and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire.

In 1871, Treitschke became a member of the Reichstag, and from that time till his death he was one of the most prominent figures in Berlin.

# When the newly elected Reichstag first convened on March 23, 1933, ( not including the Communist delegates, since their party had already been banned by that time ) it passed the Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), transferring all legislative powers to the Nazi government and, in effect, abolishing the remainder of the Weimar constitution as a whole.

The new empire had a parliament called the Reichstag, which was elected by universal male suffrage.

The Reichstag had the power to pass, amend or reject bills and to initiate legislation.

The Reichstag, an elected parliament, had only a limited role in the imperial government.

By 1932, power had shifted to such an extent that the German President, Paul von Hindenburg, was able to dismiss a chancellor and select his own person for the job, even though the outgoing chancellor possessed the confidence of the Reichstag while the new chancellor did not.

Until the Nazis came to power, Goebbels had been a relatively poor man, and his main income was the salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month he had gained by election to the Reichstag in 1928.

In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler had said:

The World Federation was one of innumerable fronts operated by the German communist Willi Münzenberg, a member of the Reichstag who had fled to France in 1933.

The building plan had to be approved by the Reichstag, which controlled the allocation of funds, although one-quarter of the money came from French war reparations.

Expenditure for the navy was too great to be met from taxation: the Reichstag had limited powers to extend taxation without entering into negotiations with the constituent German states, and this was considered politically unviable.

The elections of 1907 had returned a Reichstag more favourable to military exploits, following the refusal of the previous parliament to grant funds to suppress uprisings in colonies in South West Africa.

With support from the anticlerical National Liberal Party, which had become Bismarck's chief ally in the Reichstag, he abolished the Catholic Department of the Prussian Ministry of Culture.

Bismarck had first made this famous comment to the Reichstag in December 1876, when the Balkan revolts against the Ottoman Empire threatened to extend to a war between Austria and Russia.

Bismarck's government had to submit three draft bills before they could get one passed by the Reichstag in 1884.

In 1926, the 27th Reichstag commission officially differed the contemporarily common Fememorde from political assassination in such that assassination was by definition exerted upon open political opponents, whereas a Fememord was a form of lethal vengeance committed upon former or current members of an organization that they had become a traitor of.

The reforms, which had been delayed for a long time, were launched in the 1495 Reichstag at Worms.

Needing to put his affairs in order prior to his descent into Italy, Otto I summoned the Reichstag at Worms and had Otto II elected, at the age of six, co-regent in May, 961.

government of Hermann Müller into approving spending for the " pocket battleships despite the fact that the SPD had elected in the May 1928 Reichstag elections on a platform of stopping the " pocket battleship " project.

In 1932, Raeder often used Levetzow, who was a Nazi Reichstag deputy to convoy messages to Hitler that he and the rest of the Navy were disappointed that Hitler did not see the necessity of sea power as a prerequisite for world power, and had even worse ordered the Nazi Reichstag delegation to vote against the Papen government's umbau ( rebuilding ) programme for the Navy in November 1932.

The president also had authority to dissolve the Reichstag, conduct foreign affairs, and command the armed forces.

In particular, the fact that the president could appoint the cabinet, while the Reichstag had only a power of dismissal, created a high cabinet turn-over as ministers were appointed by the president only to be dismissed by the Reichstag shortly afterwards.

If the Reichstag threatened to censure his ministers or revoke one of his decrees he could simply dissolve the body and be able to govern without its interference until elections had been held.

" The Reichstag Fire and Its Political Consequences " pages 129 – 222 from Republic to Reich The Making of the Nazi Revolution edited by Hajo Holborn, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972: originally published as " Der Reichstagsbrand und seine politischen Folgen " pages 351 – 413 from Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Volume 12, 1964.

Juni ) and placing the Berlin victory column in the center, far away from the Reichstag, where it originally stood, were successfully completed.

has thus not been used in official terminology since 1945, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building, which since 1999 has housed the German federal parliament, the Bundestag.

Had it not been for a general amnesty for those involved in the Kapp putsch passed by the Reichstag on 8 August 1920, it is quite likely that Raeder's career would have ended in 1920 with a dishonourable discharge for high treason.

What Tobias and Taylor argued had happened, was that the new Nazi government had been looking for something to increase its share of the vote in the elections of 5 March 1933, so as to activate the Enabling Act and that van der Lubbe had serendipitously ( for the Nazis ) provided it by burning down the Reichstag.

The chief grievances which Kapp and his followers had against the government were ( a ) that the national assembly, which had been elected to serve temporarily, was beginning to act as a permanent Reichstag ; ( b ) that it seemed this assembly might revise the constitution with respect to the election of the President of the Republic so that the Reichstag, rather than the electorate of the country, was responsible for the President's election.

His grandfather Constantin Franz von Neurath had served as Foreign Minister under King Charles I of Württemberg ( reigned 1864 – 1891 ); his father Konstantin Sebastian von Neurath ( d. 1912 ) had been a Free Conservative member of the German Reichstag parliament and Chamberlain of King William II of Württemberg.

After the union of Germany as one empire in 1871, the Reichstag adopted a bill initiated by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as the " Civil Marriage Law " in 1875 ; since then, only civil marriages have been recognised in Germany.

During the Reichstag elections, the fifteen deputies of 1874, 1881, 1884 ( but one ) and 1887 were called protester deputies ( fr: députés protestataires ) because they expressed to the Parliament their opposition to the annexation by means of the 1874 motion in French language: « May it please the Reichstag to decide that the populations of Alsace-Lorraine that were annexed, without having been consulted, to the Germanic Empire by the treaty of Frankfurt have to come out particularly about this annexation.

In his verdict, Judge Bürger was careful to underline his belief that there had in fact been a Communist conspiracy to burn down the Reichstag, but declared, with the exception of Van der Lubbe, there was insufficient evidence to connect the accused to the fire or the alleged conspiracy.

In modern histories the destruction of the palace of Diocletian at Nicomedia has been described as a " fourth-century Reichstag fire " used to justify an extensive persecution of the Christians.

Particularly its early reports and serials in regards to the Reichstag fire authored by former SS officers Paul Carell ( who had also served as chief press spokesman for Nazi Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) and Fritz Tobias have since about the year 2000 been considered influential in historiography due to the fact that since the 1960s the Spiegel reports written by these two authors had made accredited historian Hans Mommsen a lifelong champion for the guilt blame of Marinus van der Lubbe, the man the Nazis themselves had presented as perpetrator of the Reichstag fire in 1933.

The latter devolved into the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, which left the building ( and ceased to act as a parliament ) after the 1933 fire and never returned ; the term Reichstag has not been used by German parliaments since World War II.

The Enabling Act, which legally gave Hitler dictatorial control of Germany, was passed by a Reichstag session held after all communist deputies had been arrested and jailed.

Votes endorsing the treaty in the Foreign Committee of the Reichstag had been unanimous — a first for the Weimar Republic.

After Groener had been savaged in a Reichstag debate with the Nazis over the alleged Social Democratic putsch and Groener ′ s lack of belief in it, Schleicher told his mentor that " he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the Army " and must resign at once.

Wilhelm Frick — who was in charge of the Nazi Reichstag delegation when Hermann Göring was not present — suggested to the Reichstag ′ s agenda committee that the Reichstag go into recess until the next budget could be presented, which would have been some time in the spring.