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The revolts of the Weimar Republic 1919 - Coggle Diagram
The revolts of the Weimar Republic 1919
Extreme left wing groups
Wanted Germany to be controlled by the people
Wanted to end private ownership of property
Wanted all business profits to be shared by the workers
Wanted to cooperate with other countries
Example: The German communist party
Moderate party groups
Supported the Weimar Constitution
Supported democracy, where people can vote
Were against extreme changes
Example: The social Democratic Party
Extreme right wing groups
Wanted Germany to be ruled by a strong leader
Supported private ownership of property
wanted strong law and order
wanted Germany to be powerful
The national party
The Spartacist revolt
The German communist party was set up in December 1918.
It soon had 33 daily newspapers and 400,000 members. The communist were supported by the Spartacist League. The Spartacist League was another extreme left wing group, based in Berlin. It was lead by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
The end of the Spartacist revolt
By January 13th the rebels had been driven of the streets, Rosa and Karl were arrested and killed by Freikorps officers. The left wing rebellion had been defeated.
Ebert (the president of Germany) sent Freikorps to defeat the rioters. The mainly unarmed workers were no match for the Freikorps soldiers .
The Freikorps:
The Freikorps were ex-army soldiers who hated the communists. They were an extreme right wing group
The Kapp Putsch (Revolt)
1) The Freikorps units were growing very powerful, because they were ex soldiers no one wanted to rise back against them. Ebert decided to send home some Freikorps units in order to make them less powerful.
The Weimar government had to defend itself against right wing as well as left wing unrest. Even the Freikorps turned against the government.
2) This angered the Freikorps and they turned against the government. Five thousand Freikorps rebels took control of Berlin, the Weimar government gave in and fled the city.
3) The rebels put a right wing politician called Wolfgang Kapp in control of the city. Kapp invited the Kaiser (the old German government) back so they went on strike, the city came to a standstill.
Kapp realised that he could not govern the city and ran away. Because of the actions of the workers, the Kapp Putsch had failed.