The states of the Weimar Republic were the first-level administrative divisions and constituent states of the Weimar Republic. The states were established in 1918–1920 following the German Empire's de
Matthias Erzberger, whose finance reforms weakened the states in the federal system
Emergency money of the Free State of Bottleneck. The text reads: "Nowhere is it more beautiful than in the Free State of Bottleneck".
The State of Thuringia was a state of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933, of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 and of East Germany from 1949 to 1952. Following German reunification, the renamed Free S
States of the Weimar Republic
…because of Prussia's disproportionately large size and influence, but the attempts were unsuccessful. The one significant change was the formation of Thuringia from a number of smaller states. The Weimar Constitution created a federal republic with certain basic powers reserved for the federal government, some…
Weimar's City Hall in 1925
The former Thuringian Landtag building in Weimar
Fritz Sauckel (shown here in 1937), was Thuringia's first Nazi Gauleiter. He later became minister-president (1932–1933) and was Reichsstatthalter (governor) from 1933 to 1945.
Wilhelm Frick in 1938. He was the Nazi Party minister of the interior and education in Thuringia in 1930.