The Weimar Republic
The Spartakist Uprising
- 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)
- Wolf gang Kapp march on berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar republic - General strike
The Freikorps (Free Corps)
- An anti revolutionary volunteer force
- Army officers set it up as the army demobilized after WW1
- Instrumental in putting down Spartakists and attacking Berlin a year later
The Weimar Republic
- Democratic government formed after WW1
- First chancellor is Friedrich Ebert until 1925
- Many people feel the constitution was its downfall
- Many people mad that they followed the treaty of Versailles
Hyper Inflation
Caused by the following:
- Need to pay reparations
- Unemployment
- Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr Region
- Leads to French occupation of region and new Reichsmark
- 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)
- Wolf gang Kapp march on berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar republic - General strike
The Freikorps (Free Corps)
- An anti revolutionary volunteer force
- Army officers set it up as the army demobilized after WW1
- Instrumental in putting down Spartakists and attacking Berlin a year later
The Weimar Republic
- Democratic government formed after WW1
- First chancellor is Friedrich Ebert until 1925
- Many people feel the constitution was its downfall
- Many people mad that they followed the treaty of Versailles
Hyper Inflation
Caused by the following:
- Need to pay reparations
- Unemployment
- Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr Region
- Leads to French occupation of region and new Reichsmark
"They imagined it would be only necessary to overthrow the old government, to set up a socialist government at the head of affairs, and then to inaugurate socialism by decree. Once again, that was an illusion. Socialism will not and cannot be created by decrees; nor can it be established by any government, however socialistic. Socialism must be created by the masses, by every proletarian. Where the chains of capitalism are forged, there they must be broken. Only that is socialism, and only thus can socialism be created."
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Rosa Luxemburg