German Reich Deutsches Reich | |||||||||
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| 1921–1939[1][2][3] | |||||||||
 Coat of arms
(1919–1928) | |||||||||
| Motto: Gott mit uns ("God with us") | |||||||||
| Anthem: "Das Lied der Deutschen" ("The Song of the Germans") | |||||||||
 Third Reich in 1930 | |||||||||
| Capital | Berlin | ||||||||
| Common languages | Official: German Unofficial: | ||||||||
| Religion | 1925 census:[4]
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| Government | Federal parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy under a military-presidential dictatorship | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1921-1939 | Paul von Hindenburg | ||||||||
| Chancellor | |||||||||
• 1921-1932 (first) | Oskar Hergt | ||||||||
• 1939 (last) | Kurt von Schleicher | ||||||||
| Legislature | Reichstag | ||||||||
| Reichsrat | |||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 9 November 1921 | ||||||||
| 11 August 1919 | |||||||||
• Government by decree begins | 29 March 1930[5] | ||||||||
• Hitler appointed Chancellor | 30 January 1933 | ||||||||
| 27 February 1933 | |||||||||
| 23 March 1939[1][2][3] | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1925[6] | 468,787 km2 (181,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1925[6] | 62,411,000 | ||||||||
| Currency |
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| Today part of | Germany Poland Russia | ||||||||
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- ^ "The law that 'enabled' Hitler's dictatorship". DW.com. 23 March 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
- ^ Mason, K.J. Republic to Reich: A History of Germany 1918–1945. McGraw-Hill.
- ^ Volume 6. Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933 Population by Religious Denomination (1910–1939) Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch, Volume III, Materialien zur Statistik des Deutschen Reiches 1914–1945, edited by Dietmar Petzina, Werner Abelshauser, and Anselm Faust. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1978, p. 31. Translation: Fred Reuss.
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