Not quite. The German communists rebelled against the German Empire in the final days of World War 1 in 1918. The SPD were apart of the revolutionaries that rebelled against the German Empire. They split apart over issues on whether to support continuing the war, etc.
So when the Kaiser dissolved the Empire in 1918 the legitimacy and boundaries of the successor state: the German Republic wasnt clear. Elections werent held until Jan 1919 and importantly the infamous peace of the Treaty of Versailles wasnt even signed until June 1919. Like in this time Poland was restablished as a country out of the defeated empires. Yugoslavia was just… made.
So a majority faction of the SPD won the elections 1919 and quickly moved to crush the communes and soviet republics that had been set up across the former empire.
The Freikorps, which were paramilitary groups mostly still loyal to the monarchy, were used by the SPD led government to suppress the communists. Those Freikorps did so, including extrajudicially murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht, while the other prominent communists fled to Russia or elsewhere.
Which really ended up putting the influence of german communism in soviet russia’s hands, especially after the bolsheviks won their revolution in 1922 and especially after Stalin came to power in 1924.
(Assuming you meant in 1919)
Yeah, but wasn’t that after the KPD did an uprising and was doing battle with the SDP?
I’m genuinely asking; I’m just not familiar with it. If you want me to read up and get back to you I can do that too.
Not quite. The German communists rebelled against the German Empire in the final days of World War 1 in 1918. The SPD were apart of the revolutionaries that rebelled against the German Empire. They split apart over issues on whether to support continuing the war, etc.
So when the Kaiser dissolved the Empire in 1918 the legitimacy and boundaries of the successor state: the German Republic wasnt clear. Elections werent held until Jan 1919 and importantly the infamous peace of the Treaty of Versailles wasnt even signed until June 1919. Like in this time Poland was restablished as a country out of the defeated empires. Yugoslavia was just… made.
So a majority faction of the SPD won the elections 1919 and quickly moved to crush the communes and soviet republics that had been set up across the former empire.
The Freikorps, which were paramilitary groups mostly still loyal to the monarchy, were used by the SPD led government to suppress the communists. Those Freikorps did so, including extrajudicially murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht, while the other prominent communists fled to Russia or elsewhere.
Which really ended up putting the influence of german communism in soviet russia’s hands, especially after the bolsheviks won their revolution in 1922 and especially after Stalin came to power in 1924.