Threats to the Weimar Republic between the years 1919-1923
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- Created on: 01-05-18 08:23
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- The Weimar Republic was never seriously threatened in the years 1919-1923
- Political assassination
- Walter Rathenau
- Foreign minister
- regarded as responsible for the Treaty of Versailles
- Stab in the back theory
- Jewish
- Matthias Ezberger
- Finance minister
- assassinated in August 1921
- Involved in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
- Walter Rathenau
- Kapp Putsch 1920
- Wolfgang Kapp
- right wing extremist
- an attack on the Weimar Republic, after the disbandment of two freikorps units
- General Luttwitz led a freikorps unit to Berlin and seized the capital
- called for a new republic, declaring Kapp as chancellor
- showed that the government could not enforce its authority even in its own capital
- It was a failure
- Ebert called for a General strike, which ended the Putsch
- however the strike showed that people were willing to support the republic
- Wolfgang Kapp
- Spartacist Uprising 1919
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Karl Liebkneckt
- Former members of the SPD, didn't support Germany's going to war
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Former members of the SPD, didn't support Germany's going to war
- January 1919 - the German Revolution
- an attack on the Weimar Republic
- Ebert used the right wing paramilitary group - the Freikorps to crush the uprising
- showed that the government could not dissolve its issues without the army
- the leaders of the uprising were both killed
- Munich Beer Hall Putsch 1923
- Adolf Hitler
- An attack on the Weimar Republic
- Putsch was a failure
- badly organised
- Hitler and several others stormed into the Bürgerbräukeller, calling for national revolution
- held von Kahr and two other leaders captive
- Ludendorff allowed von Kahr and the other to leave
- the informed the army, who eventually crushed the putsch
- Hitler and several other injured, he is sent to prison
- However, the judges were very impressed with his oratory skills, given a short sentence
- wrote Mein Kampf in prison
- Political assassination
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