Linked from

The 121 pages that link to Weimar Republic, each with the reason it gives.

• Fritz LangRelated: Lang made many of his defining German films during this politically volatile period.

• National SocialismNarrower topic: National Socialism grew within its instability and replaced it through legal and coercive means.

• New ObjectivityNarrower topic: Its political instability and urban change supplied much of the movement’s subject matter.

• ReichstagNarrower topic: The Reichstag was its elected national legislature.

• Oswald SpenglerRelated: Spengler’s public influence grew amid the republic’s political and cultural upheaval.

• Reichstag fireNarrower topic: The fire occurred during the republic’s final crisis and its institutions enabled the emergency response.

• Spartacist uprisingNarrower topic: The uprising exposed the new republic’s dependence on military forces and its vulnerability to political violence.

• WeimarBroader topic: Germany’s constituent assembly met in Weimar, giving the republic its name.

• Bavarian Soviet RepublicRelated: The republic’s defeat occurred during the fragile founding years of this German state.

• Chancellor of GermanyRelated: Its unstable parliamentary government informed postwar debates about executive authority.

• Dawes PlanNarrower topic: The Dawes Plan shaped the republic’s finances and its relations with the Allied powers.

• Kurt WeillNarrower topic: Weill’s early successes emerged amid its volatile arts and political life.

• Nazi eugenicsRelated: German eugenic debates and sterilization proposals predated Nazi rule and developed during this period.

• Paul HindemithNarrower topic: Hindemith’s early prominence and experimental work developed amid Weimar’s cultural life.

• SturmabteilungNarrower topic: The SA grew amid the republic’s street politics and worked to destroy its democratic institutions.

• The Blue AngelNarrower topic: The film was made in the republic’s final years, amid rapid cultural and political change.

• Kapp PutschNarrower topic: The coup challenged this republic’s authority and exposed its dependence on institutions and public cooperation.

• Christopher IsherwoodRelated: Isherwood lived in Berlin during its final years and made the city central to his fiction.

• Gustav StresemannNarrower topic: Stresemann’s chancellorship and foreign ministry unfolded within this republic’s turbulent politics.

• Karl LiebknechtNarrower topic: Liebknecht’s assassination unfolded during the republic’s founding crisis.

• Lili ElbeNarrower topic: Elbe’s operations and public story unfolded in Germany during the Weimar era.

• Ernst ThälmannNarrower topic: Thälmann led the KPD through the republic’s crises and electoral politics.

• Gregor StrasserNarrower topic: Strasser’s career unfolded amid the republic’s party competition and political instability.

• Hannah HöchRelated: Its social upheavals and mass media supplied the setting and imagery for much of Höch’s work.

• Max BeckmannRelated: Beckmann gained prominence amid its turbulent politics and urban culture.

• Erich MendelsohnRelated: Its postwar cities and commercial growth provided the setting for his major German commissions.

• George GroszNarrower topic: Its instability and social conflicts furnished many of his central subjects.

• Hans MorgenthauRelated: Morgenthau studied and began his academic career amid its political instability.

• Hans von SeecktNarrower topic: Seeckt’s command operated within this republic’s fragile institutions and contested politics.

• Leo StraussNarrower topic: Strauss’s early work emerged from the Weimar crisis and its challenges to liberalism.

• Martin NiemöllerRelated: Its instability helped shape Niemöller’s early support for authoritarian nationalism.

• National BolshevismNarrower topic: Its crises enabled interwar national-revolutionary currents to gain a hearing.

• Otto DixRelated: Dix’s portraits and city scenes recorded its social tensions and shifting public life.

• Otto KlempererNarrower topic: Klemperer held major German conducting posts during the republic’s cultural flowering.

• Richard SorgeNarrower topic: Sorge’s early political and journalistic life unfolded in this period.

• Stab-in-the-back mythRelated: The myth delegitimized the republic by depicting its founding as a betrayal of the army.

• Alfred EisenstaedtRelated: Eisenstaedt began his photographic career amid the republic’s cultural and political upheavals.

• Arno BrekerNarrower topic: Breker’s career began amid the republic’s unstable cultural and political environment.

• DeutschlandliedRelated: President Friedrich Ebert adopted the whole Deutschlandlied as the national anthem in 1922.

• Erich Maria RemarqueRelated: Remarque published his breakthrough novel amid the republic’s postwar social and political upheavals.

• Karl MannheimRelated: Mannheim developed his sociology of knowledge amid the republic’s ideological struggles.

• Marinus van der LubbeNarrower topic: The Reichstag fire occurred during the republic’s final days.

• Paul von Lettow-VorbeckRelated: Lettow-Vorbeck entered politics during this unstable republic and served in its Reichstag.

• Reichstag BuildingNarrower topic: The Reichstag Building became the setting for the republic’s parliamentary government.

• Roland FreislerNarrower topic: Freisler’s early legal and political career began during the republic that the Nazis later dismantled.

• 1930sRelated: Its economic and political instability preceded Nazi rule.

• Heinrich VollmerNarrower topic: Vollmer developed important firearms during this period of German rearmament constraints.

• History of GermanyBroader topic: Its democratic constitution and political instability preceded the Nazi dictatorship.

• Max SchmelingRelated: Schmeling became a prominent athlete during this era of political and cultural upheaval.

• Maximilian HardenNarrower topic: Harden continued writing after the empire fell, in a radically changed political system.