German army of workers who conducted the Ruhr Uprising in 1920
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Red Ruhr Army
Members of the Ruhr Red Army, Dortmund, 1920
Active regions
Ruhr Valley
Size
50,000 - 80,000
The Ruhr Red Army (13 March – 12 April 1920) was an army of between 50,000 and 80,000 left-wing workers who conducted what was known as the Ruhr Uprising (Ruhraufstand), in the Weimar Republic. It was the largest armed workers' uprising in the nation's history, and ran from 13 March to 2 April, 1920, in Germany's most important industrial area. The workers were reacting to the Kapp Putsch, an effort by right-wing forces in March 1920 to overthrow the elected government.
After calling a general strike on 14 March, the Red Ruhr Army defeated the Freikorps and regular army units in the area and started the uprising. The government sent in regular and paramilitary forces, killing an estimated 1,000 workers and suppressing the revolt.
The RuhrRedArmy (13 March – 12 April 1920) was an army of between 50,000 and 80,000 left-wing workers who conducted what was known as the Ruhr Uprising...
Reichswehr (the German army) and right-wing Freikorps to crush the ongoing insurgency of the estimated 50,000 members of the "RedRuhrArmy". This involved considerable...
but in the Ruhr it was the instigation for an armed revolt. In the Ruhr Uprising, the RuhrRedArmy was able to take control of the Ruhr industrial area...
The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of World War II in Europe, in the Ruhr Area...
in the putsch but immediately afterwards had the RuhrRedArmy brutally suppressed during the Ruhr uprising. In 1921 the Reichswehr organized the Black...
Aktion, affiliated with the KPD, also banned in 1933. Rote Ruhrarmee (RuhrRedArmy) was active during 1920. Schwarze Scharen (Black Band), affiliated with...
Reichsbanner, the Nazi SA, the Nazi SS, and the RuhrRedArmy grew from street gangs into private armies. For example, by 1931 Werner von Blomberg was using...
to public resistance and a general strike. March 15 – The RuhrRedArmy, a communist army 60,000 men strong, is formed in Germany. March 15–16 – Constantinople...
aftermath of the crushing of the RuhrRedArmy, the Vogtland was surrounded by 50,000 government troops and Hoelz led his army to the border with Czechoslovakia...
the Ruhr uprising of 1920 between the representatives of the RuhrRedArmy and the German government. At the height of the conflict in the Ruhr, which...
the army group to oversee the German Ardennes Offensive ("Battle of the Bulge"). Eventually, Army Group B surrendered on 17 April 1945 in the Ruhr pocket...
Union of Germany together established the RuhrRedArmy, which expelled the Freikorps from the valley of the Ruhr. 1921 June Hyperinflation in the Weimar...
Army Group, elements of which were to proceed east to a juncture with the U.S. 1st Army as it made a secondary advance northeast from below the Ruhr River...
1920 in the fighting in the wake of the Kapp Putsch on the side of the RuhrRedArmy, in which he served as a section commander. Towards the end of 1920...
actual boundaries of the Ruhr vary slightly depending on the source, but a good working definition is to define the Lippe and Ruhr as its northern and southern...
permission to use its own troops against the rebellious RuhrRedArmy, in the French-occupied Ruhr region. In Poplar Bluff, Missouri, James Jackson survived...
member" of the RuhrRedArmy, set up as a response to the abortive Kapp Putsch. This led to his arrest in January 1921. (His RuhrRedArmy comrade Wilhelm...
Battle of the Bulge. In the aftermath of the defeat of Army Group B and its encirclement in the Ruhr Pocket, Model took his own life on 21 April 1945. Otto...
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