Setting up the Weimar Republic

• What did Ebert arrange to help run Germany like the Kaiser?

  Civil servants
• What did the civil servants do?

  Collect tax and maintain public services
• Did the civil servants have loyalty to the government?


  No
• What did Ebert reassure to Groener?


  The army won’t be reformed = Ebert had military support to protect his government from the continuing riots
• What did Ebert tell industry leaders like Hugo Stinnes?


  The new Republic would not confiscate land or factories and there would be no nationalisation of private industries.
• What did not confiscating land or factories and not nationalising private industries mean for the economy?

  It continued to operate
• How did Ebert win support of the trade unions?

  He promised their leader, Carl Legien, that the new Republic would try to achieve an 8 hour working day
• What did achieving an 8 hour working day mean?

  It helped limit further strikes
• What did Ebert try and secure?

  Both left and right-wing support for the government