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March 1933 German federal election

Index March 1933 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 5 March 1933, after the Nazi seizure of power on 30 January 1933 and just six days after the Reichstag fire. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 69 relations: Aachen, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Agricultural League, Alfred Hugenberg, Arthur Crispien, Article 48 (Weimar Constitution), Bavarian People's Party, Catholic Church in Germany, Centre Party (Germany), Chancellor of Germany, Chemnitz, Christian Social People's Service, Coalition government, Cologne, Communist Party of Germany, Communist revolution, Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, Districts of Germany, East Prussia, Enabling Act of 1933, Ernst Thälmann, Frankfurt (Oder), Free State of Prussia, German Farmers' Party, German National People's Party, German People's Party, German State Party, German-Hanoverian Party, Hans Vogel, Heinrich Held, Hermann Göring, Hilfspolizei, Hitler cabinet, July 1932 German federal election, Koblenz, Kroll Opera House, Left-wing politics, Legnica, Ludwig Kaas, Majority government, Marinus van der Lubbe, Nazi Party, Nihilism, November 1932 German federal election, November 1933 German parliamentary election, Otto Wels, Paul von Hindenburg, Percentage point, Prague, ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. 1933 elections in Europe
  3. 1933 elections in Germany
  4. Elections in the Weimar Republic
  5. March 1933 events

Aachen

Aachen (French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Oche; Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers' Party).

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Agricultural League

The Agricultural League (Reichs-Landbund) or National Rural League was a German agrarian association during the Weimar Republic which was led by landowners with property east of the Elbe.

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Alfred Hugenberg

Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg (19 June 1865 – 12 March 1951) was an influential German businessman and politician.

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Arthur Crispien

Arthur Crispien (4 November 1875 – 29 November 1946) was a German Social Democratic politician.

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Article 48 (Weimar Constitution)

Article 48 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic of Germany (1919–1933) allowed the Reich president, under certain circumstances, to take emergency measures without the prior consent of the Reichstag.

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Bavarian People's Party

The Bavarian People's Party (German:; BVP) was a Catholic political party in Bavaria during the Weimar Republic.

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Catholic Church in Germany

The Catholic Church in Germany (Katholische Kirche in Deutschland) or Roman Catholic Church in Germany (Römisch-katholische Kirche in Deutschland) is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church in communion with the Pope, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the German bishops.

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Centre Party (Germany)

The Centre Party (Zentrum), officially the German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei) and also known in English as the Catholic Centre Party, is a Christian democratic political party in Germany.

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Chancellor of Germany

The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime.

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Chemnitz

Chemnitz (from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden.

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Christian Social People's Service

The Christian Social People's Service (Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst, abbreviated CSVD) was a Protestant conservative political party in the Weimar Republic.

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Coalition government

A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Communist Party of Germany

The Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands,, KPD) was a major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West Germany during the postwar period until it was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956.

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Communist revolution

A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism.

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Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten

Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (German: 'The Steel Helmet, League of Front-Line Soldiers'), commonly known as Der Stahlhelm ('The Steel Helmet'), was a German First World War veteran's organisation existing from 1918 to 1935.

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Districts of Germany

In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a Gemeinde (municipality) is the Landkreis or Kreis.

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East Prussia

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.

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Enabling Act of 1933

The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich, was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, leading to the rise of Nazi Germany. March 1933 German federal election and Enabling Act of 1933 are March 1933 events.

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Ernst Thälmann

Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann (16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist politician and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933.

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Frankfurt (Oder)

Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (Central Marchian: Frankfort an de Oder) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after Potsdam, Cottbus and Brandenburg an der Havel.

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Free State of Prussia

The Free State of Prussia (Freistaat Preußen) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1947.

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German Farmers' Party

The German Farmers' Party (Deutsche Bauernpartei, or DBP) or German Peasants' Party was a German agrarian political party during the Weimar Republic, existing from 1928-33.

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German National People's Party

The German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic.

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German People's Party

The German People's Party (German:, DVP) was a conservative-liberal political party during the Weimar Republic that was the successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire.

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German State Party

The German State Party (Deutsche Staatspartei or DStP) was a short-lived German political party of the Weimar Republic.

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German-Hanoverian Party

The German-Hanoverian Party (Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei, DHP), also known as the Guelph Party (Welfenpartei), was an agrarian, federalist political party in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic.

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Hans Vogel

Hans Vogel (16 February 1881 – 6 October 1945) was a German politician and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) along with Arthur Crispien and Otto Wels from 1931 to 1933.

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Heinrich Held

Heinrich Held (6 June 1868 – 4 August 1938) was a German Catholic politician and Minister President of Bavaria.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.

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Hilfspolizei

The Hilfspolizei (abbreviated HiPo or Hipo; meaning "auxiliary police") was a short-lived auxiliary police force in Nazi Germany in 1933.

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Hitler cabinet

The Hitler cabinet was the government of Nazi Germany between 30 January 1933 and 30 April 1945 upon the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich by President Paul von Hindenburg.

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July 1932 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 31 July 1932, following the premature dissolution of the Reichstag. March 1933 German federal election and July 1932 German federal election are elections in the Weimar Republic and federal elections in Germany.

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Koblenz

Koblenz is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.

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Kroll Opera House

The Kroll Opera House (Krolloper, Kroll-Oper) in Berlin, Germany, was in the Tiergarten district on the western edge of the Königsplatz square (today Platz der Republik), facing the Reichstag building.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Legnica

Legnica (Polish:; Liegnitz,; Ligńica; Lehnice; Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River and the Czarna Woda.

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Ludwig Kaas

Ludwig Kaas (23 May 1881 – 15 April 1952) was a German Roman Catholic priest and politician of the Centre Party during the Weimar Republic.

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Majority government

A majority government is a government by one or more governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature.

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Marinus van der Lubbe

Marinus van der Lubbe (13 January 1909 – 10 January 1934) was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted, and executed by the government of Nazi Germany for setting fire to the Reichstag building—the national parliament of Germany—on 27 February 1933.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

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November 1932 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 6 November 1932. March 1933 German federal election and November 1932 German federal election are elections in the Weimar Republic and federal elections in Germany.

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November 1933 German parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Germany on 12 November 1933. March 1933 German federal election and November 1933 German parliamentary election are 1933 elections in Europe, 1933 elections in Germany and federal elections in Germany.

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Otto Wels

Otto Wels (15 September 1873 – 16 September 1939) was a German politician who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933 and as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1919 until his death in 1939.

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Paul von Hindenburg

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (abbreviated; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I. He later became president of Germany from 1925 until his death.

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Percentage point

A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Province of Hanover

The Province of Hanover (Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1866 to 1946.

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Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)

The Province of Pomerania (Provinz Pommern; Prowincja Pomorze) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945.

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Province of Schleswig-Holstein

The Province of Schleswig-Holstein (Provinz Schleswig-Holstein) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia (from 1868 to 1918) and the Free State of Prussia (from 1918 to 1946).

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Reichstag (Nazi Germany)

The Reichstag ("Diet of the Realm"), officially the Greater German Reichstag (Großdeutscher Reichstag) after 1938, was the national parliament of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was the lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat, which represented the states.

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Reichstag fire

The Reichstag fire (Reichstagsbrand) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

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Reichstag Fire Decree

The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung) is the common name of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State (Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat) issued by German President Paul von Hindenburg on the advice of Chancellor Adolf Hitler on 28 February 1933 in immediate response to the Reichstag fire.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

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Supermajority

A supermajority (also called supra-majority, supramajority, qualified majority, or special majority) is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Trier

Trier (Tréier), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen; Westfalen) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wrocław

Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.

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Zwickau

Zwickau (Polish: Ćwików; Czech: Cvikov) is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District.

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1990 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 2 December 1990 to elect the members of the 12th Bundestag. March 1933 German federal election and 1990 German federal election are federal elections in Germany.

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See also

1933 elections in Europe

1933 elections in Germany

Elections in the Weimar Republic

March 1933 events

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election

Also known as German election, March 1933, German federal election, March 1933, Nazi election.

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