Zusammenfassung der Ressource
4 Main political parties
- The spartacist uprising
- Led by the communist party
- Set up by
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Karl Liebknecht
- Wanted to take over
because they wanted a
full scale communist
revolution
- Like the Russian revolution in 1912
- Tried to take over by turning
peaceful protests into a
revolution
- Never came close to taking over the country
- Because
- The uprising was planned badly
- Didn't get support from the other left wing groups
- Both their main leaders were
murdered and without the leaders the
spartacist was defeated
- The red army
- Led by
- Groups of workers
- Members of the communist party
- Wanted to take over because the
workers were angry about bad pay and
bad working conditions
- Tried to take over by
- The workers occupying the
Ruhr region and taking control
of its raw materials
- Never came close to taking over because
- Communist party had weak leadership
- Didn't have clear idea of what they
were doing
- Didn't have much support and the German army had
killed over 1000 workers
- The Kapp putsch
- Led by
- Freikorps units
- Led by Wolfgang kapp
- Wanted to take over because
- Government ordered that Freikorps brigades be disbanded
- Had tried to take over by
- Marching 12,000 Freikorps into berlin
- Government was forced to flee
- So the Freikorps put Kapp forward as new leader of germany
- Only lasted 4 days before Kapp fled from Berlin
- Ebert's government returned
- Munich putsch
- Led by the Nazi party
- Led by hitler
- Led by general ludendorff
- Popular ww1 hero
- involved with the Kapp putsch
- 55,000 members
- own army called the sa
- Wanted to take over because
- They believed that there should only be
one political party with on leader
- Tried to take over by
- Nazis planned to take over the goverment
- Set general Ludendorff as leader
- Forced Kahr to support their plan
- Never really came close
- Kahr withdrew his support
- Armed Nazis had a fight with armed police and 14
were killed
- The leaders were arrested and put in prison
- Hitler for 5 years