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Ruhr uprising
Part of the reactions to the Kapp Putsch, Revolutions of 1917–1923 and Political violence in Germany (1918–1933)
Members of the Ruhr Red Army in Dortmund
Date
13 March – 12 April 1920 (1920-03-13 – 1920-04-12)
The Ruhr uprising (German: Ruhraufstand) or March uprising (Märzaufstand) was a left-wing workers' revolt in the Ruhr region of Germany in March 1920. It initially took place in support of the call for a general strike issued by the Social Democrat members of the German government, the unions, and other parties in response to the right-wing Kapp Putsch of 13 March 1920.
Communists and other socialists in the Ruhr had previously laid plans for "winning political power by the dictatorship of the proletariat" in the event of a general strike but after the collapse of the Kapp Putsch, the German government sent in the Reichswehr (the German army) and right-wing Freikorps to crush the ongoing insurgency of the estimated 50,000 members of the "Red Ruhr Army". This involved considerable brutality and summary executions of prisoners. An estimated 1,600 people were killed.
The Ruhruprising (German: Ruhraufstand) or March uprising (Märzaufstand) was a left-wing workers' revolt in the Ruhr region of Germany in March 1920...
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 RuhrUprising...
of the Weimar Republic. It was also one of the direct causes of the Ruhruprising a few weeks later, which the government suppressed by military force...
The Ruhr (/ˈrʊər/ ROOR; German: Ruhrgebiet [ˈʁuːɐ̯ɡəˌbiːt] , also Ruhrpott German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːɐ̯pɔt] ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes...
the putsch but immediately afterwards had the Ruhr Red Army brutally suppressed during the Ruhruprising. In 1921 the Reichswehr organized the Black Reichswehr...
The Occupation of the Ruhr (German: Ruhrbesetzung) was a period of military occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany by France and Belgium from 11 January...
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to flee Berlin. (By contrast, the left-wing Ruhruprising, which began during the Kapp Putsch in the Ruhr and Saxony, was ruthlessly put down with the...
including members of all the three moderate parties. 4 April – The Ruhruprising comes to a violent end. 6 April – French occupation of Frankfurt: French...
under the command of von Watter, marched into the Ruhr area on 2 April 1920 and suppressed the RuhrUprising, which was taking place. After extrajudicial shootings...
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Kapp's defeat. For a time, the Ruhr Red Army, in what came to be known as the Ruhruprising, dominated the entire Ruhr region. Severing made it clear...
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during the RuhrUprising, 13 March – 2 April 1920. Government and paramilitary forces were ordered against the workers, suppressing the uprising, and killing...
Hermann Müller to suppress the RuhrUprising, an attempt by left-wing workers to take over political power in the Ruhr Area. It grew out of the widespread...
Infantry Regiment at Konstanz, which was sent to the Ruhr in March 1920 to help crush the Ruhruprising. Following von Seeckt's example, Model kept aloof...
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...
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Weimar Republic in 1923. Three major events in 1923, the occupation of the Ruhr, separatist unrest in the Rhineland and the Palatinate, and the danger of...
April Reichswehr troops marched into the Ruhr and bloodily put down the uprising. In August 1919 armed uprisings took place in Upper Silesia among segments...
The government then sent Reichswehr and Freikorps troops to quell the RuhrUprising by force. To avoid an election campaign at a critical time, the Reichstag...
broke out in the cities of the Ruhr, including Bochum, Wetter, Witten, Herne, Haltern, and Hagen. This was the Ruhruprising. Workers were successful against...
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Freikorps
Oskar von Watter
Workers' councils