historical geographic location Nazi Germany Weimar Republic 1918 1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic An unofficial historical designation for the German state from 1918 to 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place. The official name of the republic remained Deutsches Reich (’German Reich’) unchanged from 1871, because of the German tradition of substates. German German Empire