Post: | President |
Body: | the Reichstag |
Native Name: | German: Präsident des Reichstags |
Insignia: | Wappen Deutsches Reich (Weimarer Republik).svg |
Insigniasize: | 125px |
Type: | Presiding officer |
Department: | Presidium of the Reichstag |
Style: | Mr. President |
Seat: | Reichstag building, Königsplatz, Berlin |
Nominator: | Political parties |
Appointer: | Reichstag |
Appointer Qualified: | traditionally appointing nominee of the largest party |
Termlength: | Contemporaneous to legislative period |
Constituting Instrument: | German Constitution |
Formation: | March 1871 |
First: | Eduard von Simson |
Last: | Hermann Göring |
Abolished: | 23 April 1945 |
Succession: |
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The president of the Reichstag (German: Präsident des Reichstags) was the presiding officer of the German legislature from 1871 to 1918, under the German Empire and again from 1920 to 1945, under the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
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See main article: article, Presidium of the Reichstag (German Empire), Presidium of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) and Presidium of the Reichstag (Nazi Germany).