Tag: Ebert

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15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

15th January 2023
Tagged as: Berlin, Communism, Ebert, First World War, Freikorps, Germany, Revolution, Socialism, Spartacist Revolt, Uprising, Wilhelm II

The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 January.

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11th August 1919: The Weimar Republic officially established when Friedrich Ebert signs the new constitution into law

11th August 2022
Tagged as: Constitution, Ebert, First World War, Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Politics, Weimar, Wilhelm II

It took the best of part of seven months for the delegates of the new German National Assembly to agree on the terms of the new Weimar constitution, which Ebert signed into law whilst on holiday in Schwarzburg.