Fehrenbach cabinet

The Fehrenbach cabinet (German: Kabinett Fehrenbach) was the fourth democratically elected Reichsregierung of the German Reich. It was named after Reichskanzler (chancellor) Konstantin Fehrenbach and took office on 25 June 1920 when it replaced the First Müller cabinet.

The cabinet was formed after the June elections to the new Reichstag which replaced the Weimar National Assembly. It was the first government since the German Empire ended in 1918 which did not include the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The SPD remained the strongest party after the elections, but its share of the vote dropped significantly. The government was formed by the Catholic Zentrum, the German Democratic Party (DDP) and the German People's Party (DVP).

Fehrenbach resigned in May 1921 after the DVP withdrew its support in protest over the government's agreement to fixing Germany's reparation payments to the Allies. The cabinet was followed by the first government of Joseph Wirth, the previous minister of finance.

The Reichstag elections of 6 June 1920 brought a defeat for the parties that had carried the previous government—SPD, DDP and Zentrum, the so-called "Weimar Coalition". Their share of the popular vote had dropped from 74.8% in the January 1919 election to 43.6%. Gains were made both by the parties on the right—the DVP and DNVP—and the far left, the KPD and the USPD. Nationalistic voters blamed the Weimar Coalition for the lost war, for the severe stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles and for domestic unrest by workers like during the Ruhr Uprising. Those on the left felt betrayed by the SPD and the other parties of the political centre for siding with the military and other forces that had already been powerful under the Empire (bureaucracy, industrialists, land owners) against communist or socialist protests.

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