The German Constitution of Weimar (1919). A Utopia in the Midst of the Crisis? A Historical Analysis of Its Interventative, Modernizing and Social Rights Aspects
Authors
Juan David Restrepo Zapata
Universidad de Antioquia
The present article studies from an interdisciplinary perspective some postulates of the German Constitution of 1919 in its intervening, modernizing and social rights aspects. Consequently, this text, analyzes in depth the constitutional framework enacted in the city of Weimar after the end of the World War One, which was guided to a greater extent by social democratic postulates that saw in the communist revolution a latent danger that had to be stopped. Some of the advances in the intervening matter of the Constitution, allowed the direct link of the State in the regulation and control of economic, political, social aspects, among others. In the face of modernization, basic aspects of the tradition were reformed in terms of institutions, power, relations and political and democratic actions, Church-State bonds. And finally, regarding the social field, some labor, union and some other rights that contemplated the social security of the inhabitants of the Germanic country were extended and enacted.
Keywords:
Germany, Weimar Constitution, State Interventionism, Modernization, Social Rights
Restrepo Zapata, J. D. (2018). The German Constitution of Weimar (1919). A Utopia in the Midst of the Crisis? A Historical Analysis of Its Interventative, Modernizing and Social Rights Aspects. Estudios Internacionales, 50(190), pp. 85–106. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2018.51146
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