It was to a large extent that revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces destabilised the Weimar Government in the period 1919-1923. Both right and left winged groups sought control or downfall of the Weimar republic leading to multiple revolutions such as the Kapp Putch and the Spartacist uprising, severely effecting the Weimar Government’s overall stability.The Weimar’s flawed constitution further allowed tensions to rise on both left and right winged sides. The Weimar Government, which was led mostly by the Social Democrats and President Friedrich Ebert, also destabilised the Weimar Government through failing to create a new army under the Weimar Republic and instead relied on that of the existing right-winged military and the freikorps (ex-militant group) as their counter-revolutionary forces. These revolutions and counter-revolutions made the Weimar Government appear weak thus destabilising the Government.
The Spartacist party (later the Communist Party of Germany or KPD) led a general strike by workers from the 4-15 January 1919 showed intial weakness within the Weimar Government through the counter-revolutionary forces that were used. The …show more content…
Like the Spartacist uprising, the Ruhr uprising sought a Communist government within Germany. As it was a left-winged uprising it was quickly crushed by the military and the feikorps, resulting in over 1,000 dead. During this Chaotic time there was also a enormous amount of political assassinations by both right and left wing extremists. This included Walter Rathenau, Germany’s foreign minister. Between 1919-1922, there was 376 political assassinations. This chaotic revolutionary attempts extremely destabilised the Weimar
The Spartacist party (later the Communist Party of Germany or KPD) led a general strike by workers from the 4-15 January 1919 showed intial weakness within the Weimar Government through the counter-revolutionary forces that were used. The …show more content…
Like the Spartacist uprising, the Ruhr uprising sought a Communist government within Germany. As it was a left-winged uprising it was quickly crushed by the military and the feikorps, resulting in over 1,000 dead. During this Chaotic time there was also a enormous amount of political assassinations by both right and left wing extremists. This included Walter Rathenau, Germany’s foreign minister. Between 1919-1922, there was 376 political assassinations. This chaotic revolutionary attempts extremely destabilised the Weimar