Die Weimarer Reichsverfassung im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Betrachtung

It remains too narrow to go into the origins of the Weimar Reich Constitution, which was created a good 100 years ago, if, in addition to its well-known international burdens from the Treaty of Versailles, one does not also consider political mentalities which, since the November Revolution, have been reflected in constitutionally relevant fears, expectations, warnings and disappointments of contemporary Germans. The present constitutional-historical treatise examines this in more detail with the help of several examples and arrives at very ambivalent conditions for Germany’s first fully democratic constitution, more so than was previously the case, consciously from its inception in 1919. This is underlined by an appended brilliant newspaper article from that time.