What is Weimar Constitution?
[[Image:Weimar Constitution.jpg|thumb|right|210px|The Weimar Constitution in booklet form. The constitution itself required that it be provided to school children at the time of their graduation.]] The '''Constitution of the German Reich''' ([[German language|German]]: ''Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches''), usually known as the '''Weimar Constitution''' (''Weimarer Verfassung'') was the [[constitution]] that governed the [[Weimar Republic]] (1919-1933). The constitution technically remained in effect during the [[Third Reich]] from 1933 to 1945. The German state's official name was ''Deutsches Reich'' until the adoption of the [[Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany|1949 constitution]]. == Origin == Following the end of [[World War I]], a German National Assembly gathered in the town of [[Weimar]], in the state of [[Thuringia]], in January 1919 to write a constitution for the ''Reich''. The nation was to be a democratic [[federal republic]], governed by a [[president]] and [[parliament]]. The constitution was drafted by the lawyer and liberal politician ''Hugo Preuss'', who was then state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and later became Minister of the Interior. ==Other websites== * Selected Articles: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob13.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050407165641/http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/%7Ejobrien/reference/ob13.html |date=2005-04-07 }} * Entire Constitution: http://www.zum.de/psm/weimar/weimar_vve.php * [http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/ku.php?tab=que&ID=843 The Constitution of the German Reich (Weimar constitution) of 11th August 1919, in full text] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322172301/https://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/finde/langDatensatz.php?urlID=843&url_tabelle=tab_quelle |date=2021-03-22 }} * The portion of a series of lecture on German history pertaining to the [http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/20weimar1.html Weimar Republi