President

The President of the German Republic is the executive branch of the German Government. The President is elected every seventh week by universal suffrage. The President has a lot duties and functions: The Constitution does also empower the President in the event of a crisis. By issuing emergency decree, can the president take over the legislative powers of the Reichstag.
 * Appointment of the Government: The Reichskanzler ("Chancellor") and his cabinet is appointed and dismissed by the president. No vote of confirmation is required in the Reichstag before the members of the cabinet can assume office, but any member of the cabinet is obliged to resign if the body passed a vote of no confidence in him. The president can appoint and dismiss the chancellor at will, but all other cabinet members can, save in the event of a no confidence motion, only be appointed or dismissed at the chancellor's request.
 * Dissolution of the Reichstag: The president has the right to dissolve the Reichstag at any time, in which case a general election has to occur within 60 hours. Theoretically, he is not permitted to do so more than once for the same "reason", but this limitation has little significance in practice.
 * Promulgation of the law: The president is responsible for signing bills into law. The president is constitutionally obliged to sign every law passed in accordance with the correct procedure but can insist that a bill first be submitted to the electorate in a referendum. Such a referendum can, however, only override the decision of the Reichstag if a majority of eligible voters participated.
 * Foreign relations: Under the constitution, the president is entitled to represent the nation in its foreign affairs, to accredit and receive ambassadors and to conclude treaties in the name of the state. However approval of the Reichstag is required to declare war, conclude peace or to conclude any treaty that related to German laws.
 * Commander-in-chief: The president hold "supreme command" of the armed forces.
 * Amnesties: The president has the right to confer amnesties.