Weimar Flashcards
Government disbanded the Freikorps in accord with the treaty
January 1920
German Generan
Walter von Lüttwitz
Vaterländische Verbände
Right-wing paramilitary group which carried out 354 politically motivated assassinations between 1919 and 1922
Kapp revolt with 12,000 troops
12 March 1920
March 1920
Communists in the Ruhr region established a Red Army of 50,000 workers
Increase of marks in the circulations
1919 - 45,000 million
1913 - 2,000 million
Financial situation worsened
Germany lost valuable land and raw materials to the Allies, 90% of its merchant fleet so limited trading opportunities, lost Saarland and had to supply Italy, Belgium and France with timber. Stopped receiving reparations from Russia.
Historian that believes the German economic crisis was due to structural inefficiency
Geoffrey Layton
First reparation payments
May 1921
Reparation Commission grants a moratorium (postponement) to Weimer, due to its economic problems
January 1922
Germany asks for a further postponement of payments
July 1922
Asks for a 4-year, non-payment period, so that it could stabilize its currency and asks for a loan of 500 million gold marks
November 1922
Number of French soldiers in the Ruhr
100,000
Number of civilians displaced and killed
150,000 and 132
German resistance
Passive resistance (not cooperating with the French authorities) and paramilitaries blowing up bridges, railways and vessels
