The Weimar Republic and the German Economy

The First World War had wrecked the German economy, and this economic devastation would extend into the early 1920s. There were many groups within Germany that did not support the move of the nation to a democratically elected government. The Weimar Republic was structured with a Reich President who served for seven years as its head of state. It also had some of the same features, or defects, you might call them, of those other nations. One of these was that the cabinets which led this government cycled very frequently.

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