THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
- Democratic Government that came to power after WWI
- Philip Scheidemann proclaimed the Republic with the words: "The old and rotten, monarchy has collapsed. They new may live. Long live the Republic!"
- Kanzler Friedrich Ebert until 1925
- People don´t like the government because they accepted PPT and Treaty of Versailles
- Challenges to the Weimar Republic in the early years:
- Spartakist Uprising 1919 (Left Wing)
- Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg,
- Freikorps
- Kapp Putsch 1920 (Right Wing)
- Freikorps lead by Wolfgang Kapp
- Had to disband because of general strike
- Hyper Inflation and Germany can´t pay reparations
- Leads to French Occupation of Rheinland
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Summary
The Weimar Republic was very important for Germany because it was the first democratically elected government in Germany ever. But the government had difficult problems. They were unpopular because they agreed to the PPT and the Treaty of Versailles, there were uprisings from the left and the right wing and they had a Hyper Inflation in Germany.