4) political extremisim

• Erzberger assassination


  1921,

  He had led the German delegation for signing the armistice and signed the tov
• Rathenau assassination


  1922,

  Foreign minister, a Jew, and the leading minister in the republican gov and participated in the signing of the armistice and negotiations of the tov
• Number of assassinations linked to each group between 1919 and 1923


  total of political assassinations = 376

  the left = 22

  the right = 354
• Number of assassinations punished for each group

  326 right wing murderers were unpunished, while 10 left wing murderers were sentenced to death
• Spartacus rising in Berlin


  5th January 1919

  Attempted to overthrow Ebert's gov and set up a communist regime

  Had to turn to the Freikorps to crush the rebellion, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were executed
• Communist 'Red Army'


  1920, berlin communists formed a red army of 50,000 workers and seized control of the Ruhr

  Regular army and Freikorps struggled to crush the rising
• The Kapp Putsch


  February 1920

  gustav Noske (defense minister) ordered two Freikorps units (12,000 men) to disband

  Luttwitz marched his troops to berlin to protest and the army wouldn't fire against the.

  civilians had a general strike, and the putsch collapsed in 4 days
• Beer Hall Putsch in Munich


  November 1923,

  Hitler surrounded a Munich Beer Hall of 2000 people with stormtroopers, forcing Ritter von Kahr and otto von Lossow to march to Munich and install Ludendorff as the commander in chief. This failed and he was captured