Challenges of left and Right wing outside Reichstag
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- Challenge of left and right wing outside Reichstag
- Spartacist Revolt (L.W)
- Spartacist league were extreme socialists from USPD - independent socialist party- in Berlin.
- they supported communists
- 4th Jan 1919, Ebert sacked the Berlin police chief - who was popular with the workers.
- next day thousands of workers took to street in protest
- Spartacists saw it as chance to undermine gov.
- 6th Jan 1919 Called for an uprising and general strike in Berlin.
- 10 000 workers took to streets
- seized the gov.'s newspaper and telegraph offices
- 6th Jan 1919 Called for an uprising and general strike in Berlin.
- Spartacists saw it as chance to undermine gov.
- next day thousands of workers took to street in protest
- Weimar gov. was loosing control of the capital
- Spartacist league were extreme socialists from USPD - independent socialist party- in Berlin.
- The Kapp Putsch (R/W)
- 1920s, Ebert's gov. struggling to control Freikorps
- Their units were due to be disbanded (March 1920)
- fearing unemployment, they turned their arms against the republic
- 5000 men marched on Berlin
- declared a new gov. and invited Kaiser to return from exile
- fearing unemployment, they turned their arms against the republic
- Reichswehr wouldn't help as didn't want to open fire on their own people
- in fear for lives, members of gov. fled to Weimar and Stuttgart
- couldn't put revolt down by force
- So urged workers to go on strike
- Did as most socialist and did not want Kaiser
- essential services - gas, electricity, water, transport- all stopped and capital ground to a halt
- So urged workers to go on strike
- Their units were due to be disbanded (March 1920)
- Wolfgang Kapp - figurehead leader
- fled, put in prison and died
- 1920s, Ebert's gov. struggling to control Freikorps
- challenge of Ongoing Political violence (1919-23)
- Political Assasi usinations
- Matthias Erzberger -shot and killed (Aug 1921)
- Hugo Hasse - Ebert's council of people represenative- 1919
- Walther Rathenau - Weimar foreign minister - June 1922
- Between 1919- 22 there were 376 political murders - mostly left wing or moderate politicians
- No right wing murderer was convicted but ten left were
- Judges sympathetic to right wing and even undermined W.R in court
- No right wing murderer was convicted but ten left were
- most political partied hired armed men to guard their meetings
- they were usually unemployed ex-soldiers
- were at first for protection but often caused the meetings and marches to be violent
- Political Assasi usinations
- Spartacist Revolt (L.W)
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