HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kapp Putsch, Wolfgang Kapp
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Spd, liberal ddp and catholic center party: the constituent assembly met at weimar in february 1919 and ebert elected president, the parliament (reichstag) was to be elected every four years with a system of proportional representation so that it would be impossible for one party to get overall majority, the president was to be elected every seven years under article 48 he had the power to, under a state of emergency, rule by decree (a dictator!! Kapp putsch: the right wing dissatisfaction with the new government worsened by the decision to disband the freikorps units, the nationalist politician wolfgang kapp led a revolt in berlin backed by the freikorps and the military commander in berlin, the regular army refused to crush the revolt and government had to flee the city, however the putsch collapsed and at the same time a communist revolt in ruhr was crushed with over a thousand dead.
