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Left wing Right wing
Name of the group The Spartacists The Kapp Putsch (Freikorps)
Leadership Rosa Luxemburg Wolfgang Kapp
Demands/aims • More moderate social • Nationalism
democrat • Anti-
government socialism/communis
• Communism m
• to undo the German
Revolution of 1918–
1919, overthrow the
Weimar Republic, and
establish an
autocratic
government in its
place.
Supported by • People who wanted • People who were
communism/socialis against the TOV
m • Former soldiers
• People part of the • People who were
working class anticommunists/socia
• Karl Liebknecht list
• Rosa Luxemburg • People who wanted
dictatorship
Methods They believed that power The Kapp Putsch wanted to
and wealth should be shared undo the German Revolution
equally among the of 1918–1919, overthrow the
population. They wanted to Weimar Republic, and
replicate the Russian establish an autocratic
Revolution of 1917 by: government in its place.
overthrowing the central
government. establishing
soviets (workers' and
soldiers' councils) in place of
central government in
German towns and cities.
How they were defeated The Spartacists failed due to During 13 - 17 March 1920,
the intervention of the as a reaction to this, the
military and Freikorps units, right-wing nationalist, Dr
which mobilized to defend Wolfgang Kapp led a
the government. On the Freikorps takeover in Berlin.
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