10 FACTORS FOR THE RISE OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
By the end of 1918, the Germany and all her allies or friends had been defeated. Public opinion in Germany, however, blamed the defeat of their country on the German Emperor Kaiser William II and therefore, the popular feeling was that he should be overthrown. As a result of such feelings and also due to the inspiration from the 1917 Russian revolution, the Social Democrats in Germany organized a revolution in November 1918 , which overthrew Kaiser William II and forced him into exile to Holland. Later in February 1919 , the National Assembly or parliament decided to meet in the German town of Weimar and proclaimed or declared Germany a Republic with a new drafted constitution known as the Weimar Constitution. The Social Democratic Party leader Friedrich Ebert became the first President of this new Weimar Republican government up. This government stayed in power until January 1933 when President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as a Chancellor. FAC...