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The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire , then, in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were ...
9 November 1923: The failed Beer Hall Putsch, from 8 to 9 November, marks an early emergence and provisional downfall of the Nazi Party as an important player in Germany's political landscape. Adolf Hitler , the leader of the NSDAP party , until then hardly known to the general public, attempted a coup against the democratic Reich government on ...
The Volksmarinedivision (People's Navy Division) was an armed unit formed on 11 November 1918 during the November Revolution that broke out in Germany following its defeat in World War I. At its peak late that month, the People's Navy Division had about 3,200 members.
The Kiel mutiny (German: Kieler Matrosenaufstand) was a revolt by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet against the maritime military command in Kiel.The mutiny broke out on 3 November 1918 when some of the ships' crews refused to sail out from Wilhelmshaven for the final battle against the British Grand Fleet that the Admiralty had ordered without the knowledge or approval of the German ...
The revolution reached Berlin on Saturday 9 November. With the backing of the SPD, the Revolutionary Stewards and the Spartacus League – groups that favoured a soviet-style council republic – called a general strike. Workers and soldiers established councils and important buildings such as the police headquarters were occupied. [9]
German Revolution of 1918–1919, a politically driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I; November Revolution (physics), referring to the series of changes in particle physics triggered by the discovery of the charm quark in November 1974; Velvet Revolution, which ended the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in November 1989
German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny, and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model. 9 November Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands.
On 2 November 1918 there was a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Stewards, also attended by Liebknecht, which voted 21 to 19 against initiating revolutionary action on 4 November as the workers were not yet disposed to act. They settled on 11 November. [5]: 26 In Berlin, the Stewards numbered around 80 to 100.