The Law for the Protection of the Republic was the name of two laws of the Weimar Republic that banned organisations opposed to the "constitutional republican form of government" along with their prin
Bundesarchiv Bild 102 03034, Berlin, Verfassungsfeier vor dem Reichstag
Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, whose assassination by right-wing extremists in 1922 led to passage of the First Law for the Protection of the Republic
Legal scholar Dr. Gustav Radbruch (SPD), Germany's minister of justice when the First Law for the Protection of the Republic was drawn up and implemented
Joseph Wirth
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Karl Joseph Wirth was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who was chancellor of Germany from May 1921 to November 1922, during the early years of the Weimar Republic. He was also minister
Law for the Protection of the Republic
…anti-republican right were received into the chamber with shouts of "murderers!" from members of the parties of the centre and left. On 25 June, Chancellor Joseph Wirth of the Centre Party made a speech during which he turned toward the right-wing members of the Reichstag, specifically Helfferich, and declared, There…
Wirth c. 1920
Wirth's grave in Freiburg