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Form of coalition	Elections	Chancellor	In office		Party	President	In office
			From:	To:			From:
SPD, Zentrum; DDP	Jan 1919	Friedrich Ebert	Nov 1918 Dec 1918	Dec 1918 Feb 1919	SPD	F.Ebert, SPD	Jan 1919
SPD, Zentrum, DDP	-	Philipp Scheidemann	Feb 1919	Jun 1919	SPD
SPD, Zentrum, DDP	-	Gustav Bauer	Jun 1919	Mar 1920	SPD
SPD, Zentrum, DDP	-	Hermann Müller	Mar 1920	Jun 1920	SPD
Zentrum, DDP, DVP	Jun 1920	Konst. Fehrenbach	Jun 1920	May 1921	Zentrum
Zentrum, DDP, SPD	-	Josef Wirth	May 1921 Oct 1921	Oct 1921 Nov 1922	Zentrum
Zentrum, DDP, DVP	-	Wilhelm Cuno	Nov 1922	Aug 1923	No party
DVP, SPD, DDP Rule by pres.decree (from Sept 1923)	-	Gustav Stresemann	Aug 1923 Oct 1923	Oct 1923 Nov 1923	DVP
Zentrum, DDP, DVP, BVP Zentrum, DDP, DVP	Jun 1924	Wilhelm Marx	Nov 1923 Jun 1924	Jun 1924 Jan 1925	Zentrum	P.vHind., No party	Mar/Apr 1924 Mar/Apr 1932
Zentrum, DVP, DNVP, BVP Zentrum, DDP, DVP, BVP	Dec 1924	Hans Luther	Jan 1925 Jan 1926	Jan 1926 May 1926	No party
Zentrum, DDP, DVP, BVP Zentrum, DVP, DNVP, BVP	-	Wilhelm Marx	May 1926 Jan 1927	Jan 1927 Jun 1928	Zentrum
SPD, DDP, Zentrum, BVP, DVP	May 1928	Hermann Müller	Jun 1928	Mar 1930	SPD
Rule by presidential decree Rule by presidential decree	Sep 1930	Heinrich Brüning	Mar 1930 Oct 1931	Oct 1931 May 1932	Zentrum
Rule by presidential decree	Jul 1932	Franz vPapen	Jun 1932	Dec 1932	Zentrum / no party
Rule by presidential decree	Nov 1932	Kurt vSchleicher	Dec 1932	Jan 1933	No party
Rule by presidential decree / NSDAP	Mar 1933	Adolf Hitler	Jan 1933	Apr 1945	NSDAP	A.Hitler, NSDAP	Aug 1934
-				Not really legitimate. Appointed in a letter by Hitler. Arrested by Allies on 23 May 1945 (= End of “Weimar Republic”)		K.Dönitz, NSDAP	Apr 1945-May 1945

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