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