Threats to Weimar 1919-23
- Created by: Tom Ower
- Created on: 01-06-13 12:37
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- Threats to Weimar 1919-23
- Kapp Putsch 1920
- A group of army officers refused to disband, as army was ordered to be limited to 100,000
- Revealed army's reluctance to support the republic and the dubious loyalty of the Freikorps
- The Ruhr revolution 1920
- In response to the threat from the Freikorps, workers in the Ruhr formed a 'Red Army'
- The Freikorps crushed the revolution
- In response to the threat from the Freikorps, workers in the Ruhr formed a 'Red Army'
- Threats from the left
- The Russian-Polish war in 1920 heightened fears in Germany, although the Poles pushed the Soviets back, the perceived 'Red threat' barely diminished.
- Revolutionary left was divided and weakened by the lack of widespread support
- Political violence
- Assasination of Karl Gareis and Matthias Erzberger
- By article 54 of the Weimar constitution, the judiciary maintained their independence
- The army served to protect their own interests, not the republics.
- Currency collapse 1923
- Reparations made matters worse
- Set on a course of hyperinflation
- Kapp Putsch 1920
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