Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What problems did the Weimar Republic face 1919-1923?
- The Spartacist Rising (1919)
- Led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg
- Spartacists were Communists
- Ended by Freikorps
- Tried to take over Berlin - Jan 1919
- The Treaty of Versailles
- It was a surprise - they thought it would be based on Wilson's 14 points
Anmerkungen:
- It was harsh - e.g. accepting War Guilt
- It was a diktat - they had no say
- The reparations were huge
- The Kapp Putsch
- Putsch means rising
- Led by Wolfgang Kapp
- Involved 5,000 Freikorps
- Ended by workers' strike
- Hyperinflation
- Could not afford reparations
- French and Belgium invaded Ruhr
- Workers = passive resistance but still paid
- German government printed money to pay workers
- This led to hyperinflation
- Winners - those with debts
- Losers those with savings and paid monthly
- Munich Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
- Hitler and Nazis try to take power by force
- Threatened Bavaria state leader at gunpoint
- Ended because army supported Weimar
- Sent to prison - Landsberg Fortress - 5 years
- He wrote Mein Kampf