Weimar's political problems, 1919-22
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- Created on: 27-03-17 21:13
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- Weimar's political Problems 1919-22
- The kapp putsch
- Dr wolfgang Kapp a right wing politician
- march 1920 gov ordered the freikorps to disband
- 5000 freikorps marched into berlin and declared it that the weimar gov had been over thrown
- The army wouldn't support the weimar government as it would be crushing their own officers
- 5000 freikorps marched into berlin and declared it that the weimar gov had been over thrown
- Failed because..
- Reichswehr didn back Kapp
- Most government bureaucrats wouldn't support kapps orders
- The general strike that ebert had ordered
- Right wing threat
- Conservative right
- generally supported dnvp
- Many wished to resore he monarchy
- Influences the army, the civil service, the judiciary and education
- Radical right
- Little sympathy for conservatives
- nationalistic, anit-democratic, anti-Jewish, anti-socialist
- Ex soldiers like the freikorps were attracted to this, wanting to destroy the republic
- Conservative right
- Left-wing threat
- USPD pressed for a socialist society within a democratic framework
- Kpd wanted to overthrow the weimar republic and establish a one party socialist state
- By 1920 the Kpd had 400000 members
- The spd was commited to parliamentary democracy
- Uspd ends ad members join kpd or spd
- continued unrest
- communists tried to seize power in march 1920
- more han 1000 workers killed
- surpressed by the army
- more han 1000 workers killed
- March 1921 army suppress communist revolt in saxony
- Right wing groups assassinate leading politicians ho they think of as traitors
- communists tried to seize power in march 1920
- weak government coalition SPD, DDP, Centre
- before 1920- commanded 78% f the Reichstag's seats
- 1920 elections only had 48%
- short lived coalition governments
- Unequal justice
- Those involved in the Ruhr uprisings were severely punished
- Those involved in the kapp putsch were let off Scott free
- between 1919-1922 there were 376 political assassinations
- 22 by the left and 354 by the right
- 10 left wingers sent to death not one from the right
- 326 of the right wingers went unpunished
- 22 by the left and 354 by the right
- The kapp putsch
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