How did the Weimar Germany deal with the uprising?

• Uprising- A situation which a large group of people try to overthrow the government or the leader.
• How did the government deal with the uprising (Spartacist Uprising, Jan 1919)?

  • Wanted Germany to be run by the working class
  • Believed that power and wealth should be shared equally among population
  • Led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
  • Newspaper and communication buildings were seized and demostrators armed themselves
  • Employed armed Freikorps to put down the rising (Friekorps were ex-army soldiers who hate communists)
  • Over 100 workers were killed
  • Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were arrested and brutally murdered
• How did the government deal with the uprising (Kapp Putsch, 1920)?

  • Led by Wolfgang Kapp
  • March 1920, Freikorps led by Kapp to overthrow Weimar Republic
  • Failure since workers went on strike, leading Kapp to flee
  • Believed they were going to disband and left unemployed
  • Kapp and 500 of his men took control of the government buildings in Berlin
  • Weimar Government urges German people to passively resist causing essential services to stop
  • Wolfgang was arrested and dies in prison. The Putsch falls