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1918 German Revolution

1918 German Revolution

By Cs SapkotaPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
1918 German Revolution

The German Revolution of 1918-1919 brought an invasion, a republic, a parliamentary democracy, the first socialist government, and a thriving industrial economy. His central events include the assassination of Kiel, the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the formation of the Weimar Council of People Ministers, the National Assembly, the Spartacus uprising in Berlin, and several short-term republics in Germany. The first act of change was due to the policy of the command of the German military and the lack of cooperation with the command of the military.

In the fall of 1918, German military commanders knew that they would not win World War I. His German allied generals, hoping to find a better environment for their capture, called on Libyan Prince Max of Liberty to form a new German government, a democracy under Kaiser. In October 1918, naval officers wanted to go to war, but instead of leaving the ship and sailing for the British navy, German sailors refused to take part in a possible defeat and rebelled against their commanders.

After the victory in the east, the German High Command introduced the so-called Spring Offful on the Western Front on March 21, 1918, which turned the war on Germany, and in July 1918 the last reservoirs were used when the defeat of the German army was certain. These events contributed to the escalation of violence in the spring of 1919, which almost landed Germany in a civil war.

Leaving the leaders in 1918, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, while on the left saw the 1917 military collapse of the German state as a unique opportunity to build a socialist state under the leadership of workers, soldiers, and councils. The left has always longed for change, but it has not been the change it aspired to. In the 1919 elections, a record number of people went to the polls to vote for the first national democratic convention and as the revolution spread throughout Germany, radicals were made in the spring of 1919.

Friedrich Ebert's determination to hold a general election for the National Assembly to answer the question of Germany's forthcoming government plan has been shown by the far-right as a fundamental betrayal, preventing the strongest ambitions of reforming German society and its political system. Many Germans who witnessed the revolution thought that it was a change in which the state had gone far beyond the socialist state they had always wanted and that without a leading socialist party there would be no head in the middle.

The situation in the central government was critical when members of the left-wing government declared under Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann Germany a republic and called it the Soviet republic. In the evening, Ebert succeeded in convincing an independent socialist party that had split from the Socialist Party in 1917 because of the ongoing struggle to elect a three-member interim government to lead the newly announced republic.

After winning the Independent Socialist Party, which had been divided by a majority of Socialists in 1917 because of the continuation of the war, Ebert agreed to appoint a caretaker government to lead the recently declared Republic, the People's Commissions Council and form the Social Republic. Ebert and his ministers formed an alliance with the military to defend the new German republic from the workers, soldiers, and response and military councils that would oppose the revolution.

Baden resigned as Reich Chancellor on November 9, 1918, and appointed Ebert as his successor, an illegal move aimed at keeping the new German Republic in relative hands.

Members of the USPD and the People's Council of Deputies left the government at the end of December 1918 due to serious disagreements, especially on the actions of the military and Santander Mutiny over Christmas. Other members were influenced by the fact that Lenin had disbanded the troops and elected the Constituent Assembly in Russia. Meetings of the National Congress of Workers "and Soldiers" in mid-December 1918, when independent socialists had hoped for the formation of a socialist Republic, seemed less than expected and disrupted Ebert's plans for a democratically elected constitutional assembly.

The German revolution of 1918-1919 fulfilled people's aspirations and political involvement, which increased dramatically during the First World War. The escalation of the war and the rebel movement played a key role in ending the war, laying the foundation for Germany's first democratic Republic, the Weimar Republic, and building its political career. In 1918, the German monarchy underwent a social change, and in a shocking turn of events, a small socialist republic was introduced into the democratic government.

The German Revolution was a time of turmoil and political change that began at the end of World War I and ended with the adoption of the Weimar Constitution. The German Revolution of 1918-19 was the basis of much controversy during the Cold War. Why Weimar failed in the question, and whether the seeds of this failure began with a severe socialist revolution or with the bizarre event that a small socialist republic was undertaken in a German state in 1918 has not been fully answered.

By the beginning of 1918 many people in Russia and Germany were expected to reclaim Russian favor to help promote communist reform on German soil.

To undermine the Republic's credibility, food-wing activists and some former officials used the stabbing "forces" to accuse the German and Jewish social scientists of plotting to defeat Germany in World War I. This was compounded by the fact that eight of the ten leaders of the Communist Revolution were Jews.

When Germany was to be conquered in the fall of 1918, the revolution of the sailors in Kiel spread rapidly throughout the country. Unlike the French and Russian revolutions, which began in the capital, the German revolution began at the end and ended in Berlin in November. Neglected is the important role played by the movement of large numbers of soldiers and personnel to challenge the German Admiralty and the end of the war.

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