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The Weimar Uprisings

3. The Weimar Uprisings. Spartacist Uprising 1919 Kapp Putsch 1920 Munich Putsch 1923. Location, location, location. Freikorps. Left Wing. Spartacist. Organisation. Ebert. Luxemburg and Liebknecht. Weimar.

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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 Freikorps Left Wing Spartacist Organisation Ebert Luxemburg and Liebknecht

  2. Weimar

  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. Rosa Luxembourg & Karl Liebknecht Leaders of the Spartacist revolution

  5. Short term effect – the Army helped the new democratic government against the extreme left Long term effect – the Army stayed in a strong position all the way through the Weimar Republic, and often tried to undermine democracy

  6. The Spartacists tried to seize power on 5 January 1919 but they were doomed to failure. They numbered nearly 100, 000 but they were poorly armed. The day before they began their rising, Ebert created a volunteer force of 4,000 soldiers. Known as the Free Corps, they were hard men who hated communists and liked a fight. Theywere well disciplined, fully equipped and ruthless. They retook all the Spartacist occupied buildings in Berlin and captured and shot the two Spartacist leaders. The Communists defending their position in Berlin.

  7. The Freikorps were used to stop the Spartacists, eg in Berlin & Bavaria. These were right wing ex-soldiers, who hated communists and were happy to kill them. By 1919 there numbers estimated 250,000. After this, some people thought the army should run the country, as they had helped bring back law and order. Also, the communists never forgave the Social Democrats for using the Freikorps, and refused to work with them – even when Hitler was trying to become a dictator 14 years later! The Freikorps on patrol in Berlin.

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