The Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state during the years 1919 to 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place.

TheWeimar Republic(German:Weimarer Republik[ˈvaɪmaʁɐ ʁepuˈbliːk]) is an unofficial, historical designation for theGerman stateduring the years 1919 to 1933. The name derives from the city ofWeimar, where itsconstitutional assemblyfirst took place. The official name of the state remainedDeutsches Reich(English:German Realm), unchanged since 1871. In English, the country was usually known simply as Germany. NAMEThe Weimar Republic is so called becausethe assemblythat adopted its constitution met at Weimar, Germany from 6 February 1919 to 11 August 1919,but this name only became mainstream after 1933. Between 1919 and 1933 there was no single name for the new state that gained widespread acceptance, which is precisely why the old nameDeutsches Reichremained even though hardly anyone used it during the Weimar period.To the right of the spectrum the politically engaged rejected the new democratic model and cringed to see the honour of the traditional wordReichassociated with it.The Catholic Centre party,Zentrumfavoured the termDeutscher Volksstaat("German People's State") while on the moderate leftthe Chancellor'sSPDpreferredDeutsche Republik("German Republic").By 1925,Deutsche Republikwas used by most Germans, but for the anti-democratic right the wordRepublikwas, along with the relocation of the seat of power to Weimar, a painful reminder of a government structure that had been imposed by foreign statesmen, along with the expulsion ofKaiser Wilhelmin the wake of massive national humiliation.The first recorded mention of the termRepublik von Weimar("Republic of Weimar") came during a speech delivered byAdolf Hitlerat aNational Socialist German Worker's Partyrally in Munich on 24 February 1929—it was a few weeks later that the termWeimarer Republikwas first used (again by Hitler) in a newspaper article.Only during the 1930s did the term become mainstream, both within and outside Germany.