Context: The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I signed separate treaties. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919., Fritz Tarnow ( April 13 , 1880 , Bad Oeynhausen , Province of Westphalia - October 23 , 1951 ) was an important Social Democrat trade unionists and Reichstag deputy during the Weimar Republic . Tarnow was the son of a carpenter and attended elementary school in Hanover , where he also became a carpenter 's apprentice . He then became a journeyman and traveled throughout Germany . He worked until 1906 as a carpenter , and in the years 1901 to 1906 , he was also a board member of the Rastatt , Oos , Bonn and Berlin branches of the Wood Workers Association . Then he worked until 1908 as a literary and statistical assistant in the main office of the Wood Workers Association in Stuttgart . In 1909 , he graduated from the central school of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in Berlin . From 1909 to 1919 , Tarnow was then head of the Literary Agents ( Press Office ) in the main office of the Wood Workers Association in Berlin . In addition , from 1909 to 1915 , he was a community representative , a member of the district assembly and a board member of the SPD in Berlin - Friedrichshagen . Tarnow fought in the First World War and was severely wounded , causing lasting injury . During the November Revolution , Tarnow was a member of the Workers and Soldiers Council in Brandenburg an der Havel . He became secretary of the Wood Workers Association , later serving as chairman from 1920 to 1933 . He was one of the leading figures in the national executive of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund , a German trade union confederation . In the latter half of the 1920s , he was one of the main proponents of Fritz Naphtali 's concept of economic democracy . He was briefly secretary of the International Woodworkers Association . In addition , from 1920 to 1933 , he was a member of the provisional Reichswirtschaftsrat . He was also the leader of the Society for Social Reform and German Werkbund . In 1928 , he joined the Reichstag as a member for the SPD . After Adolf Hitler 's rise to power in early 1933 and the dismantling of the trade unions , Tarnow was arrested on 2 May . Hans Staudinger , who had been a State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Trade until the Preußenschlag , succeeded in obtaining Tarnow 's release from Gestapo custody . Staudinger impersonated a senior Prussian officer and ordered Tarnow 's release . After his release , he immediately left the country , and fled first to the Netherlands , then Denmark and finally , Sweden . There , he tried to rebuild the trade unions in exile . He returned to West Germany in 1946 and was the secretary of the Württemberg and Baden Trade Union Confederation in 1946 and 1947 . From 1947 to 1949 , he was secretary of the union council of Bizone and then the Trizone . He retired in 1949 , but continued as a lecturer at the Academy of work in Frankfurt ., Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place. The official name of the state was still "Deutsches Reich"; it had remained unchanged since 1871. In English the country was usually known simply as Germany.
A national assembly was convened in Weimar, where a new constitution for the "Deutsches Reich" was written, and adopted on 11 August 1919. In its fourteen years, the Weimar Republic faced numerous problems, including hyperinflation, political extremism (with paramilitaries  both left- and right-wing); and contentious relationships with the victors of the First World War. The people of Germany blamed the Weimar Republic rather than their wartime leaders for the country's defeat and for the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles. However, the Weimar Republic government successfully reformed the currency, unified tax policies, and organized the railway system. Weimar Germany eliminated most of the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles; it never completely met its disarmament requirements, and eventually paid only a small portion of the war reparations (by twice restructuring its debt through the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan). Under the Locarno Treaties, Germany accepted the western borders of the republic, but continued to dispute the Eastern border., The Dawes Plan (as proposed by the Dawes Committee, chaired by Charles G. Dawes) was an attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles., The Free State of Prussia was a German state formed after the abolition of the Kingdom of Prussia in the aftermath of the First World War. It was the major state of the German Reich during the time of the Weimar Republic, comprising almost (62.5%) of its territory and population. "Free state" is another German term for "republic" that was coined in contrast to the Latin word, which was associated with the enemy France in the minds of many Germans of that time., The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 516 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with defeated Germany (which was, by this time, the Weimar Republic). Ratifications for the Locarno treaties were exchanged in Geneva on 14 September 1926, and on the same day they became effective. The treaties were also registered in the "League of Nations Treaty Series" on the same day.It also stated that Germany would never go to war with the other countries. , Bad Oeynhausen (Low German: Bad Öinusen) is a spa town on the southern edge of the Wiehengebirge in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the East-Westphalia-Lippe region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The closest larger towns are Bielefeld (39 kilometres southwest) and Hanover (80 km east), The Province of Westphalia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946., Hanover or Hannover, on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony ("Niedersachsen"), and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Electorate was enlarged to become a Kingdom with Hanover as its capital., The Young Plan was a program for settling German reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930. It was presented by the committee headed (192930) by American industrialist Owen D. Young, creator and ex-first chairman of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), who, at the time, concurrently served at board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, and also had been one of the representatives involved in previous war reparations restructuring arrangement  Dawes Plan of 1924. The Inter-Allied Reparations Commission established the German reparation sum at a theoretical total of 132 billion, but a practical total of 50 billion gold marks. After the Dawes Plan was put into operation in 1924, it became apparent that Germany would not willingly meet the annual payments over an indefinite period of time. The Young Plan reduced further payments by about 20 percent. Although the theoretical total was 112 billion Gold Marks, equivalent to US $8 billion in 1929 (US$ billion in 2017) over a period of 58 years, which would end in 1988, few expected the plan to last for much more than a decade. In addition, the Young Plan divided the annual payment, set at two billion Gold Marks, US $473 million, into two components: one unconditional part, equal to one third of the sum, and a postponable part, equal to the remaining two-thirds, which would incur interest and be financed by a consortium of American investment banks coordinated by J.P. Morgan & Co., Subject: fritz tarnow, Relation: conflict, Options: (A) napoleonic wars (B) world war (C) world war i
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