500 supporters marched on Berlin to overthrow the Weimar Republic and bring back the Kaiser.
For a while, the rebels successfully managed to control the city.
The government fled to dresden and urged people not to co-operate and to go on strike.
Most people obliged, because they had no desire to see the Kaiser return, due to their socialist learnings.
Consequences
Kapp realised that he could not govern and so fled.
He was caught, imprisoned and then died.
The essential services (gas, electricity, water and transport) stopped.
Berlin ground to a halt.
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Sparticist Uprising
Key Features
6 Jan 1919, inspired by Sparticists, 100,000 communists demonstrated in Berlin, taking over key buildings (e.g.: newspaper offices).
Chancellor Ebert and his defence minister Gustav Noske, needed to put down the rebels.
Led by Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
The regular army-the Reschwehr, was in no shape to put down the revolt, so the chancellor turned to the Freikorps-the demobilised soldiers from WWI refusing to give back their arms (the anti-communists worked with the proper army). They were huge, numbering 250,000 in March 1919.
Consequences
With the help of the Freikorps, Weimar put down the uprisings in early 1919.
Several thousand communist supporters were arrested or killed, mostly in Berlin.
Rosa & Karl arrsted 15th January and killed by Freikorps-Karl shot, Rosa shot in the head and then thrown into a canal.
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