Weimar coat of arms divides date, the name of country above and denomination below.

Nazi Germany used the Weimar coat of arms until 1935. The Weimar Republic (1918–1933), retained the Reichsadler (German for "Imperial Eagle") without the symbols of the former Monarchy (Crown, Collar, Breast shield with the Prussian Arms). This left the black eagle with one head, facing to the right, with open wings but closed feathers, with a red beak, tongue and claws and white highlighting.

The republican Reichsadler is based on the Reichsadler introduced by the Paulskirche Constitution of 1849, which was decided by the German National Assembly in Frankfurt upon Main, at the peak of the German civic movement demanding parliamentary participation and the unification of the German states.

Portrait of Paul von Hindenburg, right. Mintmark between Hindenburg neck and date of his birth.

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known generally as Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934) was a Generalfeldmarschall and statesman who commanded the German military during the second half of World War I before later being elected President of the German Reich in 1925. He played the key role in the Nazi "Seizure of Power" in January 1933 when, under pressure, he appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of a "Government of National Concentration", even though the Nazis were a minority in cabinet.

Engraver: A. Vocke

"The common good before the self good"; Rudolf Jung popularized it in his book Der Nationale Sozialismus, 1922. This became Hitler's basic stance on the subordination of the economy to the national interest.