Editing Weimar (section)

=== Weimar Republic ===
The period in German history from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the [[Weimar Republic]], as the Republic's [[Weimar Constitution|constitution]] was drafted there rather than [[Berlin]]. The capital was considered too dangerous for the [[Weimar National Assembly|National Assembly]] to use as a meeting place because of street rioting during the [[Spartacist uprising]]. Reich President [[Friedrich Ebert]] favored Weimar because he hoped it would remind the victorious Allies of Weimar Classicism while they were deliberating the terms of the [[Treaty of Versailles]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sturm |first=Reinhard |date=23 December 2011 |title=Weimarer Republik: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik 1918/19 |trans-title=Weimar Republic: From Empire to Republic 1918/19 |url=https://www.bpb.de/themen/erster-weltkrieg-weimar/weimarer-republik/275834/vom-kaiserreich-zur-republik-1918-19/ |access-date=17 June 2013 |website=Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung |language=de |archive-date=16 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216205128/https://www.bpb.de/themen/erster-weltkrieg-weimar/weimarer-republik/275834/vom-kaiserreich-zur-republik-1918-19/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since the calm and centrally located Weimar had a suitable place of assembly (the [[Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar|theatre]]), hotels and infrastructure, it was chosen as the host city.

In 1920, the federal state of [[Thuringia]] was founded by an association of eight former microstates (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Saxe-Gotha]], [[Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg|Saxe-Altenburg]], [[Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen|Saxe-Meiningen]], [[Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]], [[Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]], [[Principality of Reuss-Gera|Reuss-Gera]] and [[Principality of Reuss-Greiz|Reuss-Greiz]]) and Weimar became its capital. Due to that fact, the city experienced another period of growth.

In 1919, [[Walter Gropius]] founded the Bauhaus School by a merger of the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School with the Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar. The Bauhaus in Weimar lasted from 1919 to 1925, when it moved to [[Dessau]], after the newly elected right-wing Thuringian council put pressure on the school by withdrawing funding and forcing its teachers to quit. Many buildings in Weimar today have influences from the Bauhaus period. However, only one original Bauhaus building was constructed during 1919–1925, the [[Haus am Horn]], now used for exhibitions and events on Bauhaus culture.

The Weimar Republic era was marked by a constant conflict between progressive and ''[[Völkisch movement|Völkisch]]'' forces, the former represented by Harry Graf Kessler and the latter by [[Adolf Bartels]] in Weimar. The ''Weimarer Zeitung'' was published in Weimar as a local newspaper. After 1929, the right-wing forces prevailed and Weimar became an early centre of [[Nazism]].