Threats to the new German Democracy

The Kapp Putsch (1920)

• Allies insisted that the two brigades of Freikorps be disbanded
• One of the brigades led by General Luttwitz marched into Berlin with Wolfgang Kapp (a journalist who hated Friedrich Ebert for signing the Treaty)
• The soldiers took control of Government buildings and the Government was forced to flee to Dresden
• Kapp announced a new national Government
• Ebert called on the army to stop the revolution but they refused "TROOPS DO NOT FIRE ON TROOPS"
• Instead, Ebert called the workers in Berlin to go on strike; this brought the five-day revolt to an end

The Munich Putsch (1923)

• The money paid for reparations was crippling the German economy this caused…