Political violence in Germany (1918–1933)

Germany saw significant political violence from the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Republic through the German Revolution of 1918–1919, until the rise of the Nazi Party to power with 1933 elections and the proclamation of the Enabling Act of 1933 that fully broke down all opposition. The violence was characterised by assassinations by and confrontations between right-wing groups such as the Freikorps (sometimes in collusion with the state), and left-wing organisations such as the Communist Party of Germany.

Incidents of violent unrest in Weimar Republic

• German Revolution of 1918–1919 (1918-1919)
  • Kiel mutiny (1918)
  • Christmas crisis (1918)
  • Spartacist uprising (1919)
  • Berlin March Battles (1919)
• Reichstag Bloodbath (1920)
• Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch (1920)
• Ruhr uprising (1920)
• March Action (1921)
• Cuno strikes (1923)
• Küstrin Putsch (1923)
• Hamburg Uprising (1923)
• Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
• Blutmai (1929)
• Altona Bloody Sunday (1932)
• 1932 Prussian coup d'état (1932)
• Reichstag fire (1933)

See also

• Adolf Hitler's rise to power

References

Further reading

• Blasius, Dirk (2008). Weimars Ende. Bürgerkrieg und Politik 1930–1933 [The end of Weimar. Civil war and politics 1930–1933]. Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-596-17503-1.
• Brown, Timothy S. (2009). Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance. Berghahn.
• Elsbach, Sebastian (2019). Das Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold: Republikschutz und politische Gewalt in der Weimarer Republik [The Banner Black-Red-Gold: Republican defense and political violence in the Weimar Republic]. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3515124676.
• Jones, Mark (2018). Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107535527.
• McDonough, Frank (2023). The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933. New York City: Apollo Publishers. ISBN 978-1803284781.
• Schumann, Dirk (2009). Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War. Berghahn.
• Lindemann, Gerhard; Schmeitzner, Mike, eds. (2020). ...da schlagen wir zu: Politische Gewalt in Sachsen 1930–1935 [...there we strike: Political violence in Saxony 1930–1935]. Göttingen: V&R unipress. ISBN 9783847109341.
• Zerback, Ralf (2022). Triumph der Gewalt: Drei deutsche Jahre (1932 bis 1934) [Triumph of violence: Three German years (1932 to 1934)]. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. ISBN 978-3608986488.

1. German Revolution of 1918–1919
2. Kapp Putsch
3. Beer Hall Putsch
4. Hamburg Uprising
5. Blutmai
6. Küstrin Putsch
7. Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
8. Reichstag fire
9. Altona Bloody Sunday
10. 1932 Prussian coup d'état
11. March Action
12. German strike of January 1918
13. Cuno strikes
14. Ruhr uprising
15. Occupation of the Ruhr
16. Weimar Republic
17. Oskar Dirlewanger
18. Reichstag Bloodbath
19. German civil war
20. German October