Premature dissolution of the Reichstag

Source: fhm Election poster of the DDP: For honest work in city and countryside - against right-wing and left-wing dictatorship

On 13 March 1924, Reich President Friedrich Ebert (SPD) prematurely dissolves the Reichstag. He is accedes to a request by Reich Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (Centre), who considers the parliament „no longer able to do its work“. For months Marx and his bourgeois minority cabinet of Centre, German Peoples’ Party (DVP), and German Democratic Party (DDP) have endured violent criticism from the opposition because of emergency laws enacted to mitigate the economic crisis.