Weimar Constitution
During the Weimar Republic, the young Kirchheimer came to prominence with sensational analyses of the relationship between social structures and constitution. His essay from 1930 "Weimar und was dann? Entstehung und Gegenwart der Weimarer Verfassung" (Weimar and then what? Origin and present of the Weimar Constitution), in which Kirchheimer described the Weimar Constitution as an unsustainable foundation of the state, was widely discussed.