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Matthias Erzberger (1875 - 1921)
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Rosa Luxemburg
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January 2019: 100 Years since the Death of Karl Liebknecht
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Kurt Eisner (1867 - 1919)
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Gustav Landauer, writer,
Karlsruhe 7.4.1870 – Munich 2.5.1919.
Portrait, undated.
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Philipp Scheidemann
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Walther Rathenau (1867 - 1922)
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1920 The Kapp Putsch
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Beer Hall Putsch 1923
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1918 - 1933 Weimarer Republik - Germany's first democracy
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Political Assasinations During the 'Weimar Republic'
"The enemy is on the right"
reminded Reich Chancellor Joseph Wirth in his eulogy in 1922 after the assassination of German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau in the Reichstag.
Political assassinations during the Weimar Republic:
Until 1922 ring-wing extremists committed 354 politically motivated murders.
The judiciary, part of the old elites - mostly nationalist prosecutors and judges from the imperial era - were more than lenient with the perpetrators, who in many cases belonged to the 'Organization Consul'. Thus, the murders, which had an anti-democratic and anti-Semitic background, often went unpunished.
The victims were left-wing politicians and intellectuals, as well as leading politicians of the Weimar Republic, such as Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger and Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.
1919
Rosa Luxemburg
- KPD
1919
Karl Liebknecht
KPD
1919
Kurt Eisner
- USPD
erster bayerischer Ministerpräsident
1919 Leo Jogiches - KPD
1919 Gustav Landauer
Pazifist u. Volksbeauftragter für Kultur
1921
Matthias Erzberger
Zentrums-Partei, Finanzminister
1922
Philipp Scheidemann
SPD Politiker
1922
Walther Rathenau
DDP, Außenminister
1922 Maximilian Harden - Journalist
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