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  1. starter activity Ebert was the Weimar Republic’s first President. He was in power from 1919-23. He was a tailor’s son and trained originally to be a saddler. With this lack of political expertise he was a very worried man. What was on his mind in the summer of 1919? Use the pictures to help you.

  2. What was the Weimar constitution?  Aims Understand the key elements of Weimar constitution Evaluate its strengths & weaknesses Assess the challenge to the government from the right

  3. Main features of new Weimar Constitution approved by the National Assembly, July 1919

  4.  Your task • Create a table similar to the one below and list the advantages and disadvantages with this constitution. Your table should be about ½ side of A4

  5. Advantages • All Germans had equal rights, including the right to vote • Proportional representation made sure parties had the same percentage of seats in parliament as they did in the election • Provided a strong leader to keep control over the country in an emergency • Each state had its own assembly to represent local interests

  6. Disadvantages • It was too radical an experiment given the volatile nature of German society after the war • PR encouraged lots of small parties so no one party ever had enough seats to form a majority government • The president could use Article 48 to become a dictator • Local states could resist the authority of central government

  7. Kapp Putsch, March 1920 • Take notes on the following: • Causes • Aims • Outcome Wolfgang Kapp (1868-1922). Journalist & founder of Fatherland Party. Elected to Reichstag as monarchist in 1919. Following failure of Kapp Putsch, fled to Sweden in 1922 where he died awaiting trial

  8. Causes: resentment of Tr of Versailles, esp. limits on size of army & Freikorps; Weimar Constitution – gave prominence to extremist parties • Aims: replace Weimar govt. with new national government headed by Kapp • Outcome: workers rallied to Weimar govt and declared a general strike

  9.  Extension task • How similar / different was the Spartacist Uprising (1919) to the Kapp Putsch (1920)? Army & Freikorps defending Berlin Spartacists defending govt. newspaper offices

  10. SIMILARITIES Led by charismatic, political extremists Disliked govt & aimed to overthrow it Centred on Berlin DIFFERENCES Spartacists were anti-War, Kapp Putsch supported the army Kapp was a monarchist, Spartacists wanted a Communist revolution Kapp enjoyed support of Freikorps

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