Spartacist Freikorps and Kapp Putsch

• The left wing challenge was the KPD (Communist Party of Germany). The sparticists were a group of these people. The revolt occured 1919
• The right wing challenge was the DNVP and NSDAP, the Kapp putsch occurred because of them 1920
• Why did the revolts and Putsch occur?

  Coalition government couldn't agree and parties got angsty. They attack the German government and make them look weak as it was easy.
• what occurred during spartacist Revolt 1919?

  • Ebert sacked popular Police chief in Berlin.
  • Protests began and 100,000 workers went on strike. Red Rosa& Karl Liebknecht
  • Soldiers after war still had weapons, Ebert turned them into Freikorps and ordered them to remove communist rioters, as they hated them too.
  • Rosa and Karl Shot dead.
• What occured at the Kapp putsch?

  • Freikorps started becoming too powerful. Started to beat up communists in streets, Ebert need to stop this.
  • Ebert was about to dissolve a freikorp group, they feared loss of job, and 5000 men marched on berlin.
  • Freikorp control berlin, want to put Wolfgang Kapp as new german leader and wanted kaiser back
  • Ebert asked workers to go on strike, as nobody wanted the kaiser back either
  • 4 day strike, Kapp had not enough support from workers and was arrested.
• The sparticists had good money and backing from Russia.