Under the Weimar Constitution, the president, who is directly elected by voters, does not directly lead the government’s bureaucratic affairs, but is expected to lead the country and resolve ...

Invoking Article 1 of the Weimar constitution, which stated that the government was an expression of the will of the people, Hitler informed the court that once he had achieved power through legal ...

A genuine democracy - Elections for parliament and the president took place every four years and all Germans over 20 could vote. The power of the Reichstag - The Reichstag appointed the government ...

After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.

the new constitution was eventually approved and signed in August 1919. This government eventually became known as the ‘Weimar Republic’.