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The occupation was met by a campaign of both passive resistance and civil disobedience from the German inhabitants of the Ruhr. Chancellor Cuno immediately encouraged the passive resistance, [22] and on January 13, the Reichstag voted 283 to 12 to approve it as a formal policy. [23]
The Cuno strikes were a nationwide wave of strikes in Germany against the government of Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno in August 1923. The strikes were called by the Communist Party of Germany in response to Cuno's policy of passive resistance against the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the hyperinflation that resulted from it.
The Ruhr economy, the industrial heartland of Germany, came almost to a complete stop. [ 3 ] The German government paid for the upkeep of the families of those expelled or arrested by the occupation forces and to support the rising number of people who became unemployed as a result of the industrial disruptions caused by the policy of passive ...
His plans to handle the war reparations issue and stabilise the currency were derailed by the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in January 1923. Cuno instituted a policy of passive resistance and provided financial assistance to the workers and firms affected by it. The payments, made possible primarily by printing money, began the ...
The occupation of the Ruhr ended on 25 August 1925. Germany considered the Dawes Plan to be a temporary measure and expected a revised solution in the future. [ 17 ] In 1928 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, the former chancellor, called for a final plan to be established, and the Young Plan was enacted in 1929.
During its brief three months in office, the Great Coalition ended the passive resistance against the Ruhr occupation, successfully stabilized the currency by replacing the worthless Papiermark with the Rentenmark and expelled the German Communist Party from the governments of Saxony and Thuringia by means of a Reichsexekution. [1]
12 August: As a result of the Ruhr occupation crisis, the Cuno government resigns. It is replaced by a grand coalition led by Gustav Stresemann of the German People's Party. [32] 26 September: The German government ends passive resistance. [58] 27 September: Gustav Ritter von Kahr is declared General State Commissioner for Bavaria with ...
Although the French succeeded in their objective during the Ruhr occupation, the Germans had wrecked their economy by funding passive resistance and brought about hyperinflation. [70] Under Anglo-American pressure and simultaneous decline in the value of the franc, France was increasingly isolated and her diplomatic position was weakened. [71]