Junkers

Question 1

What enabled Junkers to veto legislation in the Bundesrat against Reichstag?

(Kaiser reich - Junkers)

Answer 1

Bismarck’s Constitution `

Question 2

What was fairly easy for the Junkers?

Kaiser reich - Junkers

Answer 2

Junkers control over the peasant population in an agrarian based economy because most people worked on the land and there was a quasi-alliance between landowners and workers

Question 3

What did Junkers begin to allow to preserve their own positions in the face of the changes Germany were going through?

(Kaiser Reich - Junkers)

Answer 3

Allowed the upper, middle class and industrial elite into positions of power to secure this alliance

Question 4

How many seats did the Junker Conservatives win in contrast to the SPD 1908 which caused riots?

(Kaiser Reich - Junkers)

Answer 4

SPD: 7 seats with 23% of the vote

Junker Conservatives: 212 seats with 16% of the vote

Question 5

On 28th October what did Prince Max push through?

Weimar - Junkers

Answer 5

Reforms which ensured that the Prussian elite could no longer dominate the military or government. The unfair voting system was abolished

Question 6

A revolution swept through the country and the Kaiser abdicated (when?) and what did this lead to?

(Weimar - Junkers)

Answer 6

Abdicated in 9th November 1918

The first civilian government was formed under the SPD, meaning the end of Junker-led government

Question 7

Due to the fear of a communist takeover what did Ebert sign in November 1918 which meant the army would support the new government if Ebert and the new government didn’t interfere with the military?

(Weimar - Junkers)

Answer 7

Ebert-Groener Pact

November 1918

Question 8

Some Junkers were still able to hold significant positions of power such as who?

(Weimar - Junkers)

Answer 8

Hans Von Seeckt commander-in-chief of the army from 1920-26

Question 9

Hitler managed to manipulate the Junkers. In June 1934, owing concerns raised by the army about the power and recklessness of the SA, Hitler carried out the Night of the Long Knives. What impact did this have on Junkers?

(Nazi - Junkers)

Answer 9

Led to Hitler winning support from the military leadership

Question 10

When did Hindenburg die? and what did Hitler assumedwhich saw the power of the Junkers decline drastically?

(Nazi - Junkers)

Answer 10

1934

Fuhrer

Question 11

Powerful Junker’s were removed from where? like von Papen

Nazi - Junkers

Answer 11

Powerful Junker’s removed from Hitler’s cabinet

Question 12

Majority of the Junkers in the military remained loyal, 1944 a small group of military leaders concerned about failings of the war plotted to assassinate Hitler, what did this lead to?

(Nazi - Junkers)

Answer 12

1944 Assassinations failed - 5,000 people were murdered by the Nazis

Question 13

Where did most of Junker land lay following the end of the war?

(West Germany - Junkers)

Answer 13

East Germany and Poland following the end of the war. Most of the land lost

Question 14

What were many Junkers forced to do?

West Germany - Junkers

Answer 14

Most Junkers were therefore forced to give up their land

Question 15

What happened to a lot of Junker land in communist East?

West Germany - Junkers

Answer 15

Divided up into smaller plots and turned into state-run farms

Question 16

What were destroyed?

West Germany - Junkers

Answer 16

Large aristocratic houses that existed for hundreds of years

Question 17

What had come to an end by 1952?

West Germany - Junkers

Answer 17

The power of the Prussian land-owning elite