Social Policy Flashcards
(28 cards)
Name 3 Weimar benefits
1919 - work day 8 hours max
1919 - aid for disabled, war vets, widows and orphans
1922 - National youth welfare act - child protection and education
KPD OPPOSITION
Why?
3
•replace government / industries with councils
•upset at Ebert - Groener pact
•hated Weimar - wanted one party state similar to communist Russia
KPD OPPOSITION
3 key times
- March 1919
- 1920
- March 1921
KPD OPPOSITION
1 / 3 March 1919
March 1919
Rising in Berlin and bavaria
Easily suppressed
KPD OPPOSITION
2 / 3
1920
1920
Red army - 50,000 took control of Ruhr and civil war with Freikorp - put down
KPD OPPOSITION
3 / 3
March 1921
Revolution in industrial areas. Shut down but 145 police killed
RIGHT OPPOSITION
What did they disagree on
Some right wing wanted to be seperate from Germany
Others wanted to be united and stronger
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH
When?
1920
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
Key figures 4
Defence minister - Gustav Noske
General Walther von Lüttwitz
Hans von Seechkt
Wolfgang Kapp
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
Feb 1920 what happened
•TOV ordered reduction of troops
•defence minister Gustav Noske disbanded 2 groups of 12,000
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
Response to disbanded military
General Walther Von Lütwitz refused, marched troops to Berlin
-right wing politician Wolfgang Kapp supported
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
Eberts response to general Lütwitz
Ebert got official army and tried to respond. Army refused
Hans Von Seechkt - troops don’t fire on troops
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
How long did it take for the Kapp Putsch to collapse
4 days
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
Who said ‘troops don’t fire on troops’
Hans Von Seechkt
RIGHT OPPOSITION
KAPP PUTSCH 1920
Result / lessons learned
•Weimar weak
•judiciary didn’t punish right wing
•army not trusted
ASSASSINATIONS
ASSASSINATED BY RIGHT WING
Two key members assassinated by right wight
Matthias Erzberger (finance minister)
Walther Ranthenau
ASSASSINATIONS
ASSASSINATED BY RIGHT WING
Matthias Erzberger (finance minister)
1921 by terrorise group - Organisation Consul
-helped signed armistice / reparations TOV
ASSASSINATIONS
ASSASSINATED BY RIGHT WING
Walther Ranthenau
24th June 1922 by terrorise group - Organisation Consul
-Jewish, Genoa conference failure, signed armistice
ASSASSINATIONS
ASSASSINATED BY RIGHT WING
who killed Rathenau and Erzberger
Organisation Consul
ASSASSINATIONS
Between 1919-1923 how many assassinations and by who
376
22 left
354 right
ASSASSINATIONS
1922 what law did the reichtag pass
Protection of the republic
-punished those suspected of assassinations
•failed. Judiciary right winger
-326/354 right wing walked free
-10/22 left wing sentenced to death
ASSASSINATIONS
When did the law ‘for the protection of the public’ pass
1922
RIGHT OPPOSITION
MUNICH PUTSCH
Date?
8th / 9th Nov 1923
RIGHT OPPOSITION
MUNICH PUTSCH
Key members
5
•Gustav Von Kahr
•General Von Lossow - head of Bavarian army
•Hitler
•Ludendorff
•Hans Von Seeckt
