Free People's State of Württemberg

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = "Freier Volksstaat Württemberg"
conventional_long_name = Free People's State of Württemberg
common_name = Württemberg|
continent = Europe
region = Western Europe
country = Germany
era = Interwar period
subdivision = State
nation = Germany
status_text=
government_type = Republic
year_start = 1918
year_end = 1945
event_start =
date_start = 9 November 1918
event_end = Abolition ("de jure")
date_end =
event1 = Constitution enacted
date_event1 = 29 September 1919
event2 = Abolition ("de facto")
date_event2 = 7 April 1933
p1 = Kingdom of Württemberg
flag_p1 = Flagge Königreich Württemberg.svg
s1 = Württemberg-Baden
flag_s1 = Flag of Germany (2-3).svg
s2 = Württemberg-Hohenzollern
flag_s2 = Flagge Königreich Württemberg.svg

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symbol_type = Coat of arms (from 1922)

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image_map_caption = Location of Württemberg (red) within Germany
capital = Stuttgart
national_motto =
national_anthem =
leader1 = Wilhelm Blos
leader2 = Christian Mergenthaler
year_leader1 = 1918-1920 (first)
year_leader2 = 1933-1945 (last)
title_leader = President
deputy1 = Wilhelm Murr
year_deputy1 = 1933-1945
title_deputy = Reichsstatthalter
legislature =
stat_year1 = 1925 [cite book
title = Beckmanns Welt-Lexikon und Welt-Atlas
publisher = Verlagsanstalt Otto Beckmann
date =1931
location = Leipzig / Vienna]
stat_area1 = 19508
stat_pop1 = 2580235
footnotes = The Free People's State of Württemberg ( _de. Freier Volksstaat Württemberg) was the official name of the state of Württemberg during the Weimar Republic. As Germany underwent violent revolution near the end of World War I, the Kingdom of Württemberg transformed from a monarchy to a democratic republic without bloodshed; the borders and internal administration of Württemberg remained unchanged. Following the introduction of its new constitution and the Weimar Constitution in 1919, Württemberg was re-established as a member state of the German Reich. [ Article 1 of the Württemberg constitution (25 September 1919) states: "Württemberg is a democratic republic and member of the German Reich. Its state authority is exerted in accordance with both this constitution and German national law". Article 2 of the Weimar Constitution (11 August 1919) states: "The territory of the German Reich consists of the territory of its member states."]

In comparison to the political turmoil that plagued Weimar Germany, political development in Württemberg was driven by continuity and stability. The three legislative periods of the Württemberg parliament from 1920 to 1932 each ran the full prescribed length of four years, unlike at the federal level. The social democrats lost their influence in Württemberg early in the state’s history, with conservative coalitions forming government from 1924 to 1933. Despite the many financial crises that affected Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the economic development of Württemberg proceeded better than in many other German states and its capital – Stuttgart – became a regional centre of finance and culture.

With the Nazi seizure of federal power in 1933 and the following elimination of all non-Nazi organisations ("Gleichschaltung") were Württemberg and all other German states abolished, in spirit if not in law. After World War II, Württemberg was split between the US and French Allied Occupation Zones in Germany and became parts of two new states: Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. These two states, along with Baden were merged In 1952 to form the modern German state of Baden-Württemberg.

The former Free People's State coat of arms was lately used by Porsche family as inspiration to create the logo of Porsche company, moved from Austria to Stuttgart in the aftermath of World War II and the beginning of West German Miracle.

References

ee also

*Württemberg Landtag elections in the Weimar Republic