* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

When peace was made with Henry in 1142, Albert renounced the Saxon duchy and received the Counties of Weimar and Orlamünde.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

For instance: the pottery shop was discontinued when the school moved from Weimar to Dessau, even though it had been an important revenue source ; when Mies van der Rohe took over the school in 1930, he transformed it into a private school, and would not allow any supporters of Hannes Meyer to attend it.

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.

This school was eventually known as the Technical University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and in 1996 changed its name to Bauhaus-University Weimar.

It was the Bauhaus contemporaries Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig and particularly Ernst May, as the city architects of Berlin, Dresden and Frankfurt respectively, who are rightfully credited with the thousands of socially progressive housing units built in Weimar Germany.

In order to endorse its republican and liberal tradition, the song was chosen for national anthem of Germany in 1922, during the Weimar Republic.

The capitulation was blamed upon the unpatriotic populace, the socialism | Socialists, Bolshevism | Bolsheviks, the Weimar Republic, and especially the Jews.

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

Hunt argues that it was not the guilt of wickedness, but the shame of weakness that seized Germany's national psychology, and " served as a solvent of the Weimar democracy and also as an ideological cement of Hitler's dictatorship.

This was picked up by right-wing political factions and used as a form of attack against the SPD-led early Weimar government, which had come to power in the German Revolution of November 1918.

The Dolchstoß was a central image in propaganda produced by the many right-wing and traditionally conservative political parties that sprang up in the early days of the Weimar Republic, including Hitler's NSDAP.

Elbing was joined to German East Prussia, and was separated from Weimar Germany by the Polish Corridor.

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during the Weimar period.

This Constructive Vote of No Confidence is intended to avoid the situation of the Weimar Republic in which the executive did not have enough support in the legislature to govern effectively, but the legislature was too divided to name a successor.

Weimar Classicism (" Weimarer Klassik ") was a cultural and literary movement based in Weimar that sought to establish a new humanism by synthesizing Romantic, classical, and Enlightenment ideas.

A centralised totalitarian state was established, no longer based on the liberal Weimar constitution.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

Germany's defeat in World War I, the fall of the German monarchy and the abolition of censorship under the new, liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts, previously suppressed by the old regime.

These November Criminals, or those who seemed to benefit from the newly formed Weimar Republic, were seen to have " stabbed them in the back " on the home front, by either criticizing German nationalism, instigating unrest and strikes in the critical military industries or profiteering.

The new movement saw German cinema return to international critical significance for the first time since the end of the Weimar Republic.

Modern literature in German begins with the authors of the Enlightenment ( such as Herder ) and reaches its classical form at the turn of the 18th century with Weimar Classicism ( Goethe and Schiller ).

He served as Minister of Justice of the German Empire during the early Weimar period.

The German Revolution of 1918 – 19 deposed the emperor and the kings, leading to the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an unstable parliamentary democracy.

Weimar ’ s Courtyard of the Muses, a tribute to The Enlightenment and the Weimar Classicism depicting German poets Friedrich Schiller | Schiller, Christoph Martin Wieland | Wieland, Johann Gottfried Herder | Herder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Goethe.

Philipp Scheidemann proclaims a Weimar Republic | German Republic on 9 November 1918.

German Expressionist film makers, during the Weimar Republic era and slightly earlier, would significantly influence later films, not only those in the horror genre.

Hamburg became a city-state within the North German Confederation ( 1866 – 71 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ) and during the period of the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 33 ).

Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany in 1923 during the Weimar Republic to a family of German Jews.

From 1919 to 1923, Limburg was the “ capital ” of a short-lived state called Free State Bottleneck ( or Freistaat Flaschenhals in German ) because it was the nearest unoccupied town to the Weimar Republic.

The state concordats were necessary because the German federalist Weimar constitution gave the German states authority in the area of education and culture and thus diminished the authority of the churches in these areas ; this diminution of church authority was a primary concern of the Vatican.

Weimar and the state Thuringia are celebrating Liszt's 200th birthday in 2011.

During 2006, the group released the album Volk ( German for People ), featuring cover versions of national anthems, including the NSK state anthem " Das Lied der Deutschen ", originally written in 1979 and used during the Weimar Republic.

Basic rights are fundamental to the Basic Law, in contrast to the Weimar Constitution, which listed them merely as " state objectives.

Whereas the Weimar Constitution provided the president with far-reaching executive powers, the Federal President's main functions are representative and ceremonial, though as head of state he signs bills into laws and appoints federal officials.

The Weimar Constitution contributed to the Reichswehr becoming a state inside a state, outside of the control of the parliament or the public.

After referendums on reestablishing to Länder borders as existed in the Weimar Republic all failed, this institution has not been used, as some little border changes can be done by state contract.

Württemberg became a state ( Land ) in the new Weimar Republic.

Nevertheless, they idealized tradition, folklore, classical thought, leadership ( as exemplified by Frederick the Great ), rejected the liberalism of the Weimar Republic, and called the German state the Third Reich ( which traces back to the medieval First Reich and the pre-Weimar Second Reich ).

The developments of racial pseudo-science and modernization resulted in anti-Romani state interventions, carried out by both the German Empire and Weimar Republic.

The city of Altenburg and the surrounding lands were the tiny duchy of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826 to 1918 ; afterwards it was a state within the Weimar Republic for a short time, before it was dissolved in 1922 in order to join the state of Thuringia.

On 26 or, Stresemann announced the end to the resistance against the Occupation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians, in tandem with an Article 48 ( of the Weimar Constitution ) state of emergency proclamation by President Ebert that lasted until February 1924.

The idea was to prevent crises of the state such as those found near the end of the German Weimar Republic by ensuring that whoever is head of government has enough support to govern.

Saxe-Coburg became a part of Bavaria and Saxe-Gotha merged with other small states in 1920 to form the new state of Thuringia in the Weimar Republic.

Waldeck ( or later Waldeck and Pyrmont ) was a sovereign principality in the German Empire and German Confederation and, until 1929, a constituent state of the Weimar Republic.

At the end of World War I, and during the German Revolution, resulting in the fall of all the German monarchies, the prince abdicated and Waldeck and Pyrmont became a free state within the Weimar Republic.

* Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a constituent state of the Weimar Republic