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Germany's financial system broke down. There were food riots in the Ruhr [7] and a nationwide wave of strikes against the Cuno government, which resigned on 12 August 1923. [32] Germany's new government, led by Gustav Stresemann of the German People's Party announced the end of passive resistance on
Map of the Ruhr area; in Green is a stricter or narrower definition of the Ruhr, comprising municipalities that are members of the Ruhr regional institution. The urban landscape of the Ruhr extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif .
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.
In some cities the local buses have an own numbering system, e.g. the buses in Velbert are called Ortsbus, their line number consists of an OV followed by a one- or two-digit number. In some cities the night buses are called NachtExpress – NE; Map of the complete Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn system network
With the active support of the German government, civilians in the area engaged in passive resistance and civil disobedience which largely shut down the economy of the region. [4] A number of acts of sabotage and retaliation took place as well. An estimated 137 civilians were killed and 600 injured during the occupation. [5]
France intended to transport raw materials via this line from the Ruhr, which was also occupied, but the German railway workers refused to work with them as passive resistance. During the occupation, the line was blocked to regular traffic several times so that French crews could operate coal trains from the Ruhr to France without having to ...
Map of the complete Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn systems network (Outdated) A tram of the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn in Essen The Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn (German: Stadtbahn Rhein-Ruhr) is an umbrella system of all of the Stadtbahn lines included in the integrated public transport network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR), which covers the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area in western Germany.
The Oberhausen–Duisburg-Ruhrort railway is a line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.It runs from Oberhausen via Duisburg-Meiderich to Duisburg-Ruhrort.. The line is now classified as a main line, although it is not electrified and west of Duisburg-Meiderich Sud station it is entirely single-track.