# 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.

From 1878 to 1890, the German government outlawed Liebknecht's party, but the terms of the law allowed the party to participate in elections and its elected delegates to participate in the Reichstag.

The Reichstag, still a predominantly consulting institution, was enlarged to a convention of one hundred delegates, deputed by the Landtag assemblies of the Austrian crown lands.

This included her own Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), the majority of whose delegates in the Reichstag voted for war credits.

Hitler speaking to the Reichstag delegates on 11 December 1941, having declared war on the United States

On 23 March 1933, the majority of the Reichstag delegates in the Kroll Opera House disempowered themselves passing the " Enabling act " that gave Adolf Hitler virtually unlimited authority.

After the Revolution of November 1918 and the establishment of the Weimar Constitution, women were given the right to vote for ( and serve in ) the Reichstag, and the parliament could use the no-confidence vote to force the chancellor or any cabinet member to resign.

An Imperial supreme court ( Reichskammergericht ) was established, imperial taxes were levied, and the power of the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ) was increased.

Communist Reichstag deputies were taken into protective custody ( despite their constitutional privileges ).

Weimar Germany, for example, in its constitution provided for a popularly elected president with theoretically dominant executive powers that were intended to be exercised only in emergencies, and a cabinet appointed by him from the Reichstag, which was expected, in normal circumstances, to be answerable to the Reichstag.

The electors, like the other princes ruling States of the Empire, were members of the Reichstag, which was divided into three collegia: the Council of Electors, the Council of Princes, and the Council of Cities.

The remaining forces in the Reichstag were the Catholic Centre Party and the Conservative Party.

Deputies of Polish nationality were elected to the Prussian Landtag from 1848, and then to the German Empire's Reichstag from 1871.

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

Three of the latter, St. Emmeram, Niedermünster and Obermünster, were estates of their own within the Holy Roman Empire, meaning that they were granted a seat and a vote at the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ).

New hotels, office-blocks and flats were constructed, while both Schloss Charlottenburg and the Reichstag were restored.

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.

Prince-bishoprics were most common in the feudally fragmented Holy Roman Empire, where many were formally awarded the rank of a Imperial Prince Reichsfürst, granting them the immediate power over a certain territory and a representation in the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ).

These French newspaper articles were read into the record of the Reichstag and were followed by a vote to increase military spending, all of which worked to the advantage of Zaharoff.

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.

At the 1925 elections the seats won by his party were much reduced, and his name was too far down the list for him to be returned to the Reichstag.

They were led by the militant German communist Otto Kühne, a former member of the Reichstag, who had over 2000 Germans in the FTP under his command by July 1944.

Even without the Reichstag fire, the Nazis were quite determined to destroy German democracy.

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

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

At this election Goebbels was one of the 10 Nazis elected to the Reichstag, which brought him a salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month and immunity from prosecution.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.

* Reichstag ( Austria ), the first elected parliament of Austria ( 1848 – 1849 )

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.

* Henry the Fowler is elected King of the Germans at the Reichstag of Fritzlar, and quickly fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars and Slavs.

In Germany, Member of Parliament refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Frank was elected to the Reichstag in 1930, and in 1933 he was made Minister of Justice for Bavaria.

In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848 – 1849 and 1918 – 1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament ( Reichstag ) later.

He was elected a member of the Reichstag, where he joined the National Liberal Party, for, like many other exiles, he was willing to accept the results of Otto von Bismarck ’ s work.

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.

Frick was elected to the Reichstag in May 1924 and associated himself with the radical Gregor Strasser ; he climbed to posts of leadership in the NSDAP, becoming Fraktionsführer ( parliamentary leader ) in 1928.

Partially because of his interest in economic policy, he was elected a Reichstag deputy in July 1932, and within the party, he was made chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy in December 1932, a post that he did not hold for long.

In 1907, he was elected to the Reichstag, where he soon became a close associate of party chairman Ernst Bassermann.

The original Bundesrat was very powerful: every bill needed its consent, making it equal to the popularly elected Reichstag.

Brüning joined the Centre Party and in 1924 was elected to the Reichstag, representing Breslau.

In the general election of July 1932 Schroeder was a candidate for the constituency of the NSDAP 29 ( Leipzig ) in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic elected.