Second Marx cabinet

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The second Marx cabinet, headed by Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party, was the 11th democratically elected government during the Weimar Republic. It took office on 3 June 1924 when it replaced the first Marx cabinet, which had resigned on 26 May following the unfavourable results of the May 1924 Reichstag election. The new cabinet, made up of the Centre Party, German People's Party (DVP) and German Democratic Party (DDP), was unchanged from the previous one. The three coalition parties ranged politically from centre-left to centre-right. During the cabinet's tenure, the Reichstag voted in favour of the Dawes Plan, which resolved important issues regarding the reparations payments that the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to make to the Allied victors of World War I. Due to the failure of Marx's attempts to expand the cabinet's minority coalition to the right, new elections were held in December 1924. The results provided little help to Marx in his attempt to form a more stable coalition, with the result that his second cabinet resigned on 15 December 1924. It remained in office as a caretaker government until it was replaced on 15 January 1925 by the cabinet of the independent Hans Luther. Following the lapse on 15 February 1924 of the enabling act that had allowed the emergency decrees on which many of the actions of the first Marx cabinet were based, there was no prospect of the Reichstag granting an extension. After the introduction of several draft laws that were aimed at undoing some of the government's decrees, notably on taxes, working hours and cuts to the public workforce, Marx called for new elections in May in order to prevent the Reichstag from undoing what he saw as vital policies. The election results, which weakened the parties of the political centre and strengthened the extremes of the spectrum, were unfavourable for Marx.