DOI: 10.3886/icpsr00042
title: German Weimar Republic Data, 1919-1933
title: Archival Version

description: This data collection contains electoral and demographic
data at several levels of aggregation (kreis, land/regierungsberzirk,
and wahlkreis) for Germany in the Weimar Republic period of 1919-1933.
Two datasets are available. Part 1, 1919 Data, presents raw and
percentagized election returns at the wahlkreis level for the
1919 election to the Nationalversammlung. Information is provided on
the number and percentage of eligible voters and the total votes cast
for parties such as the German National People's Party, German People's
Party, Christian People's Party, German Democratic Party, Social
Democratic Party, and Independent Social Democratic Party. Part 2,
1920-1933 Data, consists of returns for elections to the Reichstag,
1920-1933, and for the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932
(including runoff elections in each year), returns for two national
referenda, held in 1926 and 1929, and data pertaining to urban
population, religion, and occupations, taken from the German Census
of 1925. This second dataset contains data at several levels of
aggregation and is a merged file. Crosstemporal discrepancies, such
as changes in the names of the geographical units and the
disappearance of units, have been adjusted for whenever possible.
Variables in this file provide information for the total number
and percentage of eligible voters and votes cast for parties,
including the German Nationalist People's Party, German People's
Party, German Center Party, German Democratic Party, German
Social Democratic Party, German Communist Party, Bavarian People's
Party, Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party (Hitler's movement),
German Middle Class Party, German Business and Labor Party,
Conservative People's Party, and other parties. Data are also
provided for the total number and percentage of votes cast in
the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932 for candidates
Jarres, Held, Ludendorff, Braun, Marx, Hellpach, Thalman, Hitler,
Duesterburg, Von Hindenburg, Winter, and others. Additional
variables provide information on occupations in the country,
including the number of wage earners employed in agriculture,
industry and manufacturing, trade and transportation, civil
service, army and navy, clergy, public health, welfare, domestic
and personal services, and unknown occupations. Other census data
cover the total number of wage earners in the labor force and the
number of female wage earners employed in all occupations. Also
provided is the percentage of the total population living in
towns with 5,000 inhabitants or more, and the number and
percentage of the population who were Protestants, Catholics,
and Jews.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: 1919
DS2: 1920-1933
description: The data maps are provided as ASCII text files, and
the codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is
provided on the ICPSR Web site.