Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Problems of
the Weimar
Republic
1919-1923
- Armed Revolts
- Spartacist Revolt 1919
- The Spartacist League-Communist group set up by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
- Didn't trust new government.
- Berlin- 5th of January 1919
- DID NOT WORK.
- The day after the uprising,Elbert created a volunteer force of 4,000 ex-soldiers known as the Freikorps.
- They disliked the Communists, by the 15th of January they crushed the Spartacist.
- Leaders were arrested and shot during police transportation by a member of the Freikorps
- Kapp Putsch
- Berlin- 1st of January 1920
- Freikorps (right wing) lead by Wolfgang Kapp
- In 1920 the government ordered that the Feirkorps brigades be disbanded. Left wing groups had been crushed.
- 12,000 Freikorps marched to Berlin.
- Govn forced to flee.Kapp put forward as new leader.
- Treaty of Versailles
- Germans were to pay £6,600 million in annual installments (reparations)
- Germany were given all the blame
- Germans were forced to get rid of a lot of their military, weapons and soldiers.
- Rhineland was demilitarised.
- Loss of colonies.
- Economic Problems