Live tweeting events from the Weimar Republic, 100 years on. #OnThisDay #Weimar100
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The Zentrum-DVP-DDP coalition which made up the pre-election government has entered into negotiations with the right-wing DNVP.
With DNVP support this new coalition would have a majority in the Reichstag, but would shift the government significantly to the right. #Weimar100
Gustav Stresemann's centre-right DVP lost 20 seats while the liberal DDP lost 11, further weakening the Zentrum-DVP-DDP coalition which formed the pre-election government. #Weimar100
The far-right National Socialist Freedom Party, which contains several high-ranking members of the banned NSDAP, won 32 seats.
Great War general Erich Ludendorff, and head of the Sturmabteilung Ernst Röhm were among those elected. #Weimar100
With the final election results now in, the make up of the new Reichstag is as follows
SPD 100 (-86 from SPD+USPD)
DNVP 95 (+24)
Zentrum 65 (+1)
KPD 62 (+58)
DVP 45 (-20)
NSFP 32
DDP 28 (-11)
BVP 16 (-4)
Others 29
'A Majority for the Grand Coalition'
Early election results suggest the right wing DNVP and communist KPD have made significant gains, but a grand coalition of the SPD, DDP, DVP and Zentrum would still have a majority in the new Reichstag. #Weimar100
Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (Zentrum) waits in line to cast his vote in Berlin. #Weimar100
Voters across Germany head to the polls for the Reichstag election. #Weimar100
While the NSDAP remains banned in Germany following Adolf Hitler's attempted putsch, several NSDAP members, including Erich Ludendorff and Ernst Röhm, are standing in tomorrow's Reichstag election as part of the National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFP). #Weimar100
At the people’s Court in Munich, Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Head of the SA Ernst Röhm is sentenced to 3 months while Erich Ludendorff is acquitted. #Weimar100
At the request of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (pictured), President Ebert dissolves the Reichstag.
The government has been pushing to extend the emergency economic powers of the enabling act which lapsed in February, opposition parties have refused to cooperate. #Weimar100
The dissolution of the Reichstag paves the way for new Federal elections #Weimar100
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President Ebert lifts the state of emergency which has been in place in Germany since September 26th. #Weimar100
The trial of Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other leaders of the failed Hitler-Ludendorff putsch begins today in the reading room of the Reichswehr Infantry School in Munich (pictured). #Weimar100
Judge Georg Neithardt (pictured) will preside over the trial.
It is widely believed that Neithardt sympathizes with Hitler and his political aims. #Weimar100
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Members of the SPD, DDP, Zentrum and trade unionists have founded the 'Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold' paramilitary organization in Magdeburg.
The Reichsbanner aims to defend German democracy from extremist groups such as the Sturmabteilung (SA) of the NSDAP. #weimar100
NSDAP supporters disrupt a performance of Ernst Toller's pacifist play 'Hinkemann' in Dresden.
Toller (pictured) is currently in prison having been arrested after the fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, which he led for 6 days in 1919. #Weimar100
An international committee of experts led by American Charles G Dawes (pictured) has met for the first time in Paris.
The committee was established by the Reparations Commission to assess the economic situation in Germany and devise a new reparation payment schedule. #Weimar100
Economist Hjalmar Schacht (DDP) has been appointed president of the Reichsbank. #Weimar100