Vol 5 Chapter 19: , The tragic Weimar Republic

The Hohenzollern family of Germany has had good news recently. First, Bulgaria supported the former Romanian royal family to succeed the king of East Prussia, and then the British supported William II as the king of the Rhine Kingdom.
Whether it was William II or the late King Carol I of Romania, both belonged to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family in Germany, and the other major descendant of the Hohenzollern family, the Hexing root system, He died in 1869.
Due to the pandemic, the establishment of the Kingdom of Rhine and East Prussia was delayed. Of course, the Hohenzollern family was still uncertain about the throne.
The kings of Europe in this age all want face, their heads can be broken and shed, but face can't be lost!
This is the status quo of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. As the loser, William II and Ferdinand I of Romania, both announced that they refused to obtain the crown!
The same is true in history. On the one hand, William II wanted to restore, but on the other he was unwilling to give up his face. Finally, he missed the best time for restoration and let Hitler come to power.
William II is okay. He still has a son. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand is in trouble. His son is not worried. The famous "Carol II" in history is now It is already notorious.
The name of "don't love the country, love the beauty", but after the romantic king Edward VIII, even at the moment before Romania's demise, the crown prince was busy talking about love.
Of course, it's all about talking about love. If it's the end, maybe it can be a romantic story, and the openness of Europe at that time is not unacceptable.
For example, learn from His Majesty Ferdinand of Habsburg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. People still break the secular restrictions and accept both beauty and beauty.
It's a pity that the Carol II won't work anymore. Because he loves too much and loves the new and dislikes the old, naturally there will be no supporters!
It is estimated that the East Prussian people will not like such a king. The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family can no longer withstand the toss. If there is another prodigal, they have accumulated Yude in Germany for hundreds of years. It's about to be squandered.
Then everyone began to worry. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand did not want the throne to fall into the hands of other branches, and his son was ineffective, making him the king of East Prussia. Expelled.
Bulgaria only promised to push them to the throne, but did not promise to help them keep the throne. Once they lose the throne again, their department will never have a chance.
Not only that, there are many people within the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family who are eyeing the East Prussian throne. This is the foundation of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family.
It has been in business for hundreds of years. As long as he succeeds to the throne, he can quickly control his rights with the support of the Baowang faction. The benefits are not small!
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand asked embarrassedly: "Butler Ersa, what do you think I should do now?
Little Carol doesn’t know anything. Many people in the family have expressed interest in the throne of East Prussia. My nephews are going to step on my door recently! "
The butler frowned. Should he consider this question? Originally, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand had many cronies, but as Romania was incorporated into Bulgaria, these supporters saw no hope, and one by one left him.
Of course, this is also a good thing for him, otherwise it would also be a burden for the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand who has been in exile.
"Your Majesty, maybe it would be better for you to be the King of East Prussia yourself. Little Carol is not a good one. Can you still wait for your grandson?" Ersa suggested
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Family-Ferdinand smiled bitterly and said: "Those illegitimate children? Do you think they will have hope? I am not a talented and rough master, I cannot help them up!"
After speaking, he surrendered his gaze to Romania, and seemed to miss his old life. When he was the Crown Prince of Romania, he was so happy under his father's wings, but everything has changed since he took the throne!
The sudden death of his father, before he had time to sort out the country, he was forced to be involved in a world war, and then he was defeated all the way and began a life in exile.
After hesitating, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand changed his mind again. The roots of the family cannot be lost. The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family has been hit hard due to the world war.
This kind of heavy damage was not only because they lost the crown, but also a large amount of wealth and contacts were also destroyed in the war. If you want to recover, it would be impossible to do without a hundred and eighty years of operation.
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Who will inherit the king of East Prussia? Ferdinand who is far away in Sofia doesn’t care. Anyway, as long as it belongs to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, it doesn’t matter if it is a stupid or idiot who succeeds to the throne. !
Anyway, as long as he completes the agreement and establishes prestige in the European royal family, Ferdinand cannot reproduce the power of Queen Victoria's European grandmother, and he has no daughter to marry!
But the prestige of King Edward VII as a European uncle could still be achieved by Ferdinand. In fact, his prestige in the royal family is not far from King Edward VII.
To establish prestige among the European royal family is difficult and difficult to say. It is not difficult to say that it is not difficult. Simply put, as long as you are the defender of the royal power and have helped others to keep the throne, you are enough to win the majority of people. Respect it!
To put it bluntly, this is a combination of relatives and interests. It is only more complicated than ordinary relatives, but in essence it is still an alliance of interests, and blood is just a bond.
If Bulgaria is not repelled by the mainstream European society, they must have a good reputation, but reputation is a vain thing, and it is blown out directly, and it is no different from future commercial blows.
If it weren’t for Ferdinand’s hard work, it is estimated that Bulgaria’s current reputation would not be much better than that of bears, or it might have been blacked out into the Ottoman Empire!
It's comfortable to do whatever you want, and you won't even lose a piece of meat, but don't get mixed up in diplomacy. For details, you can refer to the rough road of European hegemony of bears, and the Germans singled out the world!
The magistrate, Karl, took two invitations and went to Ferdinand's body and said: "Your Majesty, this is an invitation sent by the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. There are two letters in total, namely East Prussia and The coronation ceremony of the king of the Rhine Kingdom took place on June 28, 192o and July 28, 192o!"
Ferdinand didn’t even look at it, so he made a decision:
Let’s notify Ferdinand, let’s lead the team to participate!

It is usually rare among European royal families. Except for weddings and funerals, only the enthronement ceremony will have the opportunity to get together. Ferdinand naturally wants to let Ferdinand go out to see him, and make some friends by the way. .
Fight to death on the battlefield, everyone is still relatives and friends in private, and there are still a few who have really formed feuds!
The circle of the royal family is only so big. If you look at history, all major families have fought in wars. If you want to hold grudges, royal marriages don't need to be carried out. All the have been enemies!
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Time passed quickly. In 192o, the three kingdoms agreed upon by the Allied Powers were established successively, namely, the Kingdom of East Prussia, the Kingdom of the Rhine, and the Kingdom of Poland.
If you add the existing kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, and Prussia, there are seven kingdoms, six grand duchy, five principalities, seven pro-kingdoms, and three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), where the Kingdom of Prussia has become a republic directly divided by the central government, and other regions are still a combination of kings, nobles, and parliaments.
The Weimar Republic was established under such extremely bad political conditions. It belongs to the territory that the central government can directly rule, and only accounts for less than 40% of the national territory!
Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the Allied Powers gave up the liquidation of the nobles. In order to divide Germany, the French decisively helped these states to stabilize the situation.
Then it created the special situation of 28 countries coexisting. If only multiple countries coexist, there is no way to solve the problem. The problem is that the Germans now lack an emperor who can coordinate the overall situation?
What the is the president? Can it be bigger than the king? The people of the major states have no feeling for the president of this empire, and they can't control them anyway!
What's more tragic is that the rights of these kingdoms and principalities have increased again. For example, they have the right to independently form an army, have the right to conclude treaties with foreign countries, and have independent financial accounting...
It can be said that the French did a pretty good job this time. As long as the situation remains stable, Germany will once again become a mess after decades!
Don't expect the British to help the Germans again, they just need Germany to check and balance the expansion of the French, not a strong Germany!
The divided Germany still has strong national power. At least they can contain the French. They usually make trouble on their own. Once an enemy invades, they will still be a whole. This is exactly the scene that London and Sofia want to appear the most.
History has opened a new page again, but the Weimar Republic is still here. After the end of the world war, German Chancellor Max von Baden handed over power to the chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Friedrich Albert.
However, Baden's actions failed to meet the needs of interest groups. Therefore, the next day a revolutionary government called the People’s Congress was established, consisting of three representatives from the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Social Democratic Party, led by Albert and Hugo Haas.
Although the new government was recognized by the Berlin Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council, it was opposed by the Spartak Alliance led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
Albert's Social Democratic Party won the majority of seats in the National Assembly held for Parliament from December 16th to 18th. As a result, Albert was able to immediately convene the National Assembly in order to draw up a constitution and establish a sound parliamentary system, so the support for the establishment of a socialist republic weakened.
From November 1917 to March 1918, Germany was effectively ruled by the People’s Congress. During these six months, the new government has been surprisingly positive and issued a large number of decrees.
Most of its activities are limited to a few areas, including eight-hour working days, household labor reform, agricultural labor reform, the rights of civil servants’ unions, local social welfare (divided into national and federal state levels), national health insurance, reinstatement of demobilized workers, Combating forced severance and joining the appeal system, the control of salary agreements, and the implementation of universal suffrage for people over the age of 20 of all classes at the local and national levels.
Well, these unrealistic decree, just take a look, in fact, Germany, which is facing economic collapse after the war, does not have any possibility of implementing these conditions!
In order to enable his newly established government to control the overall situation, Albert had an agreement with the command of the Supreme Sixth Army, formerly led by Erich Ludendorff and now led by William Glerner.
The Albert-Glener Agreement stipulates that as long as the army promises to protect the government, the government will not attempt to reform the army. On the one hand, the agreement symbolized that the army officially recognized the new government and gave the middle class peace of mind; however, the leftist government was considered to have betrayed the rights of workers.
A very strange scene appeared. The German revolution actually allowed the army to hold power again, and the parliament and the party became the military's thugs.
Of course, the disadvantage is that the military's control over the local states has declined. For example, the southern German region was initially controlled by the Bulgarian army. After the withdrawal, the defense was directly transferred to the southern states.
And in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, the German army has also been cut apart. For example, the Kingdom of Bavaria has the right to form 10,000 troops. Naturally, people will not let the German military interfere.
The current situation is that the major states control half of the country's military, while the central government controls the other half of the military ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The balance of power between the two parties has been established under the control of the Allies.
A large number of war losses and reparations have destroyed the German economy, and the Social Democratic Party has no experience in governing, and often introduces some wonderful policies that are actually impossible to achieve.
Threatened by left-wing and right-wing extremists, the Republic was in crisis as soon as it was founded: the left accused the Social Democratic Party of betraying the interests of workers by preventing the communist revolution; the right opposed the democratic system and insisted on returning Germany to its former monarchy.
Moreover, in order to undermine the Republic, especially the rightists, including the military forces, even claimed that it betrayed Germany and defeated the country in the First World War.
These are just the beginning. German social security is rapidly deteriorating. Both the states and the central government are troubled by the deteriorating economy, but they are unable to solve it!
The Weimar Republic, which has embarked on the history, advocated the idea of ​​reunifying Germany, which has been resisted by the major states. The new economic policy pursued by it has also been resisted by domestic interest groups. Their tragedy is unfolding.
But now the eyes of the whole world are on the Americans. The three countries of Britain, France and Bulgaria have no plans to participate in the internal affairs of Germany, otherwise the situation in Germany will be even more chaotic!
Looking at the collected German intelligence, Ferdinand looked very ugly. The chaotic German situation is indeed a good thing for Bulgaria, which facilitates the recruitment of talents.
At the same time, there is a new life in the chaos. The situation of being unbreakable and standing is applicable all over the world. Once the German people are tired of this kind of infighting, then reunification will become inevitable, and where will the world situation go? Dinan is also lost!
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