Soviet Republic of Stormarn

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The Soviet Republic of Stormarn was a short-lived socialist state that was founded on October 23, 1923 during the Hamburg uprising of the KPD on the territory of what was then the German Empire .

prehistory

The background to the founding of the state was the hyperinflation of 1923 in the Weimar Republic. This worsened the living conditions of the working class , which increased dissatisfaction and the number of KPD members. When the Reich government imposed a state of emergency on the Reich after a nationwide rail strike, the situation worsened. On October 1, 1923, the Küstriner putsch of the officially banned Black Reichswehr took place . Furthermore, unions close to the KPD tried to instigate a general strike, but this failed.

The KPD was now considering the chance of taking power. On August 15, 1923, Comintern chairman Grigory Zinoviev expressly instructed the KPD to prepare for an approaching revolutionary crisis. However, their management team under Heinrich Brandler , August Thalheimer and Jacob Walcher was not convinced by the idea. Nevertheless, the Bargteheid communists decided, for reasons that are no longer comprehensible today, to dare to rebel.

procedure

As in Hamburg, the first targets of the insurgents were the local police stations in Bramfeld and Schiffbeck to get weapons and ammunition. In Ahrensburg, Rahlstedt and Bad Oldesloe streets and railroad tracks were blocked. Unlike in Hamburg, however, the rebels in the Stormarn cities enjoyed the support of the population, who supplied them with food and helped them build barricades. The Bargteheider mayor was deposed and taken into custody.

The Stormarn police could not master the uprisings, which is why the Reichswehr from Lübeck was asked for support. The uprising was put down within a few hours. Only in the community of Schiffbeck were the insurgents able to hold out until the next day. On the morning of October 24, 1923, the uprising ended and the Soviet Republic declared dissolved.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Soviet Republic Stormarn. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 25, 2007, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wehler : German history of society vol. 4: From the beginning of the First World War to the founding of the two German states 1914-1949. 2008, ISBN 3-406-32264-6 . P. 538.
  3. ↑ Bargteheide was once a Soviet republic. In: Lübecker Nachrichten Online. June 25, 2013, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ History workshop of Billstedt: Schiffbek in the Hamburg uprising. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Erich Wollenberg : The Hamburg uprising and the Thälmann legend. In: Jens Johler (Ed.): Black Protocols. No. 6, Berlin, October 1973, p. 9 Black Protocols No. 6 , PDF, Papiertiger Archive Berlin.
  6. ↑ Interesting facts in and from Stormarn - Stormarn district. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hamburg on the barricades. In: generations-talk.de. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Constantin Boss von Mülfingen, Walter Frahm (ed.): Stormarn - The living space between Hamburg and Lübeck . Paul Hartung KG, Hamburg 1938.