The Weimar Republic was the reigning federal republic of power in Germany from the August 1919 to March 1933, as Adolf Hitler established the Third Reich. There are many reasons, which caused the collapse of the Weimar Republic that can be summarized in the role of three: ideology, economics and democracy of that time. The Weimar Republic was under the pressure of NSDAP party and it's ideology, which it couldn't meet. The Great Depression turned people against the Weimar Republic even more and made them turn to the Nazi Party. The voting system in Germany was found to be very democratic but also very complicated and expensive. The Weimar Republic was bound to fail under the pressure of the happenings in the late 1920s and Hitler's rise to power. In the beginning, the Weimar Republic was to come up with a new constitution in 1919, which later on showed to be one of the reasons historians thought the Weimar Republic didn't last long. The constitution introduced Germany as a democratic republic and used the proportional representation, declaring it as one of the most democratic constitutions of that time. The Proportional representation sounds reasonable but in the end it only caused many tiny parties to take over the political scene without one strong party and government that could pass laws. Also, one of the big failures of the Constitution was the Article 48, which allowed an individual to rule by a decree and to control Reichstag at a time of national emergency. Unfortunately, the article didn't specify what is understood as a national emergency, which later on Hitler used in his benefit. Also, president had the sole power to appoint the chancellor without support of the Reichstag. Aside all of that, German people seemed to not want democracy but a strong hand to help them get over country's economic problems. Germany just wasn't ready yet for democracy and democracy did fail them by letting Hitler take over. Ideology of the Weimar