Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, the result of the German election revealed gains for the Monarchists (Nationalists) and Communists and losses for the Moderates. The new Reichstag is vastly more interesting than the last but will undoubtedly prove more turbulent. The Moderates, however, secured a majority, but are not in such a strong position as formerly. Groups. A provisional list of the new Reichstagers by groups: Moderates 229 Monarchists 141 Communists 59 Others 19 Individuals. Among the more prominent men elected or reflected: Chancellor Marx (Moderate), Foreign Minister Stresemann (Moderate), Count von Bernstorff, ex-German Ambassador to the U. S. (Moderate), ex-Chancellor Wirth...
...continued trend toward the Right and Left was taken in some quarters as an ominous portent for the coming Reichstag election (May 4). Many moderate Germans professed keen alarm over the effect of the Bavarian election in foreign countries...
...Reichstag elections will take place...
...Under the slogan, "One people, one nation, one Kaiser," the German National People's Party launched a strong monarchist drive for the Reichstag elections. A party manifesto demanded repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, urged the youth of the land to tear away "the tissue of lies about Germany's war guilt," to go back to Bismarck and "fight everywhere against the destructive spirit of the Jews...
...Hugo Stinnes, whose last political act was to desert his German People's Party and form a new group, independent of Foreign Minister Stresemann, to be known as the National Liberal Alliance, anonunced that he would not be a condidate for the Reichstag at this election. In the last session his only activities were in the Foreign Relations Committee. He said that he intended to devote most of his time to his industrial and commercial interests...