Weimar Republic: The Golden Years

Week 9, November 25

Weimar periodization

1) Inflation, 1918-19232) Normalization, 1923-1928/293) Depression, 1928/29-1933

Gustav Stresemann, 1878-1929

(with his friend W. von Rheinhaben)

Weimar foreign politics

• Rapallo 1922• Dawes plan 1924

– > organized the post WW1 reparations in a new, non-punitive way

– > replaced by Young plan in 1929

• Locarno 1925• Entry to the League of Nations 1926

Wandervogel movement(youth hiking groups)

Youth and Weimar

• Conflicts with authority• Many grew up without fathers or with

absent parents• New offers of spare time -> Hiking groups;

sports; movies• “Comradely love”• Often moving towards more radical parties

The New Woman

Gay bar in Berlin (Eldorado)

New housing settlements

The White City, Bln-Reinickendorf

Hufeisensiedlung, Bruno Taut (1925-30)

Various inhabitants…in front of the house where Eichmann lived 34-39

Erich Mühsam, the anarchist

The White City, 1929-31, Martin Salvisberg

Berlin: A Symphony of a Metropolis

• http://vimeo.com/14998853