Article 48 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic of Germany (1919–1933) allowed the Reich president, under certain circumstances, to take emergency...

The Constitution of the German Reich (German: Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs), usually known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung), was...

government to resign by means of a vote of no confidence, and under Article 48 of the constitution it could rescind emergency decrees issued by the Reich president...

post-World War One Germany, it is understandable that the Weimar Constitution included Article 48, allowing emergency powers; however, these were never legally...

Weimar Constitution – could be suspended under Article 48. The Basic Law lists them as basic rights that cannot legally be nullified and in Article 20...

(German: Reichspräsident) was the German head of state under the Weimar constitution, which was officially in force from 1919 to 1945. In English he was...

Reichstag on 16 July 1930. Brüning asked Hindenburg to invoke Article 48 (Weimar Constitution) in order to promulgate the bill as an emergency decree. Hindenburg...

terrorist attacks. The Weimar Constitution (1919–1933) allowed states of emergency under Article 48 to deal with rebellions. Article 48 was often invoked during...

political history of 20th-century Weimar was volatile: it was the place where Germany's first democratic constitution was signed after the First World...

majority in the March 1933 German federal election with DNVP. Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution gave the President of Germany (Reichspräsident) the power...