Revolt

• In January 1919, the Spartacists took over the government's newspaper and telegraph bureau, and tried to organise a general strike in Berlin
• The Weimar government sent Freikorps units to put down the Spartacist Revolt, and there was street fighting in Berlin for several days before the revolt ended and Spartacist leaders were shot
• In March 1920, Freikorps troops, fearing unemployment, decided to march on Berlin, and a nationalist politician, Dr Wolfgang Kapp, was put in charge by the rebels and the Weimar government fled Berlin seeking safety
• In order to put down the Kapp Putsch, the government organised the trade unions to go on strike, which caused such chaos that Kapp could not rule Germany and was forced to flee
• Attacks on the Weimar Republic

  • Left-wing parties in the Reichstag
  • Right-wing parties in the Reichstag
  • The Kapp Putsch
  • The Spartacist Revolt
  • Right-wing bias in the Courts
  • Political assassinations
• From 1919-1923 politicians in the Weimar Republic were worried about assassinations, and in the early years of the republic, 376 political assassinations took place