EVENT INFORMATION

13
Maart
1920

Kapp Putsch is defeated by a workers’ general strike

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📅 13 Maart 1920 📍 Duitsland

Right-wing officers and Freikorps units seized Berlin in an attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic. The government fled, but a general strike organized by unions and workers paralyzed the country and forced the coup to collapse. The episode showed the power of labor mobilization and the fragility of the postwar republic.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Wolfgang Kapp

Walther von Lüttwitz

workers’ councils

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Weimar Republic

German trade unions

Freikorps