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The Weimar Uprisings

3. The Weimar Uprisings. Spartacist Uprising 1919 Kapp Putsch 1920 Munich Putsch 1923. Location, location, location 1 and 2. Consequences. Right Wing. Wolfgang Kapp. General Strike. Freikorps. Luttwitz and Ludendorff. Location, Location, Location 1.

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The Weimar Uprisings

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  1. 3 The Weimar Uprisings • Spartacist Uprising 1919 • Kapp Putsch 1920 • Munich Putsch 1923 Location, location, location 1 and 2 Consequences Right Wing Wolfgang Kapp General Strike Freikorps Luttwitz and Ludendorff

  2. Location, Location, Location 1

  3. The left wing is the term given to people who want to make changes that empower the ordinary working people. The right wing is the term given to the people who want little or no change. They want more power for the existing elite or monarchy

  4. Wolfgang Kapp The Kapp Putsch took place in Weimar Germany in March 1920.Wolfgang Kapp was a right-wing journalist who opposed all that he believed Friedrich Ebert stood for especially after what he believed was the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles. Wolfgang Kapp

  5. Luttwitz and Ludendorff General Ludendorff General Luttwitz General Luttwitzseized Berlin with the help of 5,000 right wing supporters and proclaimed that a new right of centre nationalist government was being established with Kapp as chancellor.

  6. Ebert knew he couldn’t use the army to put down this protest so instead he called upon the public for a General Strike. Freikorps enter Berlin during the Kapp Putsch

  7. Location, Location, Location 2 This time we’ll go to Dresden!

  8. No Gas Key industries No Electricity Anyone in a Union No water No public transport The general strike called for by Ebert ensured that those who supported Kapp could not move around and such paralysis doomed the putsch to failure. Kapp and Luttwitz fled Berlin on March 17th.

  9. Realising that he could no longer govern during a General Strike, Kapp fled Germany. He was later arrested, he died in prison. However, the success of this strike does indicate that the people of Berlin were willing to support Ebert’s government rather than a right-wing government lead by Kapp. In this sense, it can be argued that Ebert had the support of Berliners. A counter-argument to this is that Ebert was irrelevant to the Berliners thinking – they simply wanted no more trouble in their capital after experiencing the Spartacists/Communist rebellion in 1919. Peace was more important than political beliefs. The five days of the Kapp Putsch are of importance as they showed that: The government could not enforce its authority even in its own capital The government could not put down a challenge to its authority Only the mass power of a general strike could re-establish Ebert’s authority.

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