Tag: Weimar Republic
Historian Günther Gerstenberg: Book about early Weimar Republic in Munich – Munich
The beginning of the 1920s was marked by feme murders, hall battles and hateful discourse. In his new book, historian Günther Gerstenberg sheds light on how the right-wing gathered their…
Bavaria: Book sheds new light on the Wittelsbacher compensation fund – Bavaria
For an institution that treated the core of its activities as a state secret for decades, this is really a remarkable publicity offensive: the book is 400 pages long and…
150th birthday of the state theorist Moritz Julius Bonn – Culture
The economist and state theorist Moritz Julius Bonn, who was born 150 years ago on June 26 in Frankfurt am Main (and died in London in 1965), was one of…
Was the Hitler putsch also Hitler’s putsch? Two new books on the subject. – Politics
November 9th plays an important role in the German culture of remembrance: as the day on which the last German emperor abdicated and the beginning of the first German democracy…
Modernity as a time of crisis: A brilliant handbook on the Weimar Republic. – Politics
Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann have put together an excellent handbook that takes a broad look at the first German democracy between 1918 and 1933. This is more effective than…
Paul Nikolaus Cossmann: Right-wing publisher – and opponent of Hitler – Munich
During the Weimar period, Paul Nikolaus Cossmann published a staunchly nationalist campaign sheet, opposed to democracy, the Jews – and the Nazis. This is only surprising at first glance. From…
History: 100 years of juvenile criminal law – a success story – Society
After incidents like the New Year’s Eve riots, it’s often said that juvenile criminal law is no longer tough enough. Since the reform by Gustav Radbruch in 1923, it has…
Bavaria’s fateful year 1923: The year of the radicals – Bavaria
Inflation, war and extremism destabilized the young democracy of the Weimar Republic 100 years ago. How did the crisis lead to the catastrophe? There are still many sources lying dormant…
Bavaria in 1923: the year of the radicals – Bavaria
It’s a blessing that history doesn’t repeat itself, at least not in detail. It is all the more amazing how many parallels to the present can be seen when looking…
Was the hyperinflation of 1923 really such a lasting trauma? – Business
It was the time when bundles of banknotes were burned because you couldn’t do anything else with them. It was the time when an egg cost 300 billion marks, when…