Weimar Republic
The Freikorps -An anti-revolutionary volunteer force-Army officers set it up as the army demobilized after WWI -Instrumental in putting down Spartakists and attacking Berlin a year later - Democratic Government formed after WWI -First Chancellor is Friedrich Ebert until 1925 -Many people feel the government's constitution was its downfall -People mad that they followed Treaty of Versailles -Need to pay reparations -Unemployment -Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr Region -French Occupation of region in 1923 -New Reichsmark |
The Spartakist Uprising, 1919
Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg - Turned a socialist group, Spartakists League into German Communist Party -Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919 -Brutally put down by the Freikorps -Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered The Kapp Putsch, 1920 - In German Putsch stands for Coup d'etat -Freikorps are asked to disband -Treaty of Versailles (100,000 army) -Wolfgang Kapp march on Berlin in March 1920 -German workers save Weimar Republic - general strike |
Summary:
By going on a general strike, the German workers saves the Weimar Republic because the Kapp Putsch was trying to sabotage it.
By going on a general strike, the German workers saves the Weimar Republic because the Kapp Putsch was trying to sabotage it.