Weimer Republic
- Democratic Gov't formed after WWI
- First Chancellor is Friedrich Ebert until 1925 - Many people feel the government's constitution was its downfall - People mad that they followed Treaty of Versailles Two Challenges to Weimar: Spartakist Uprising, 1919 - Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg - Turned a socialist group, Spartakists League into German Communist Party - Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919 - Brutally put down by the Freikorps - Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered The Kapp Putsch, 1920 - In German putsch stands for Coup d'etat - Freikorps are asked to disband - Treaty of Versailles (100,000) - Wolfgang Kapp march on Berling in March 1920 - German workers save Weimar Republic - General strike “Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the [Weimar Republic's] early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset… The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.”
- Mary Fullbrook If the Weimar republic had survived the test of time, would there have been a second world war? |
New form of government for Germany, was not successful. Downfall due to Spartakist uprising and The Kapp Putsch.
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