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Forgotten Workers’ Protests in the Weimar Republic

jahrbuchIn the Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Axel Weipert writes about the forgotten demonstration against the workers’ council law on 13 January 1920, when 42 demonstrators died and 100 were wounded in clashes with the police. The passing of the law marked the final defeat of the council movement of the German Revolution.

Philipp Reick compares the Poor People’s Movement in New York and unemployment protests in Berlin in the 1930s.


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Jochen Hung (February 23, 2015). Forgotten Workers’ Protests in the Weimar Republic. Weimar Studies Network. Retrieved November 7, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/vbnf