Political resistance

• Extreme left-wing parties


  Believe they should run the country on behalf of the workers
• Extreme right parties


  Believe that Germany should have one strong leader, whom everyone should obey
• The spartacist revolt (left): when, who and why?


  • When: January 1919
  • Who: Spartacists were left-wing communists who wanted to copy what communists had achieved in Russia in 1917. They were led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (both killed)
  • Why: They wanted control and were helped by some factory workers/ sailors
• The spartacist revolt (left): where and what?


  • where: Berlin captial city (where government is)
  • what: 1st attempt at a communist revolution (failed
  • Ebert-Groener Pact had passed its 1st test of loyalty
  • President Ebert called army + Freikorps to smash uprising
• The Kapp Putch (right):when, who, where?


  • When: November 1923
  • Who: Wolfgang Kapp & 1200 Friekorps (another right-wing party)
  • Where: Marched in Berlin in the Kapp Putch where the pact failed: the army, willing to shoot communists and strikers refused to fire as they like Friekorps from the army
• The Kapp Putch (right): why and what?


  • Why: Both parties wanted to make Germany powerful again with an old dictator style government after the treaty (and were angry about treaty)
  • What: An attempt to seize power, resulted in kapp being chancellor of militaristic government but wasnt popular and lasted 4 days.
• Both revolutions showed...


  how weak Wiemar government was (needed air to crush both revolutions and was in the capital)