History

1918 - 1923 The old fighters

Germany: The founding years between 1919 and 1923 were characterized by political terror and a huge national debt. Germany was isolated from foreign policy by the Versailles Treaty and experienced hyperinflation in 1923. 

From the beginning, the Weimar Republic had to deal with attacks from the extreme right and left. Because the Social Democrats resorted to the knowledge and experience of the military, police, administration, judiciary, and civil service of the recently decayed empire, the left accused the Social Democrats of betraying their ideals of the workers' movement. 
The right-wingers blamed the republic's supporters for the defeat in the war and spread the stabbing legend saying that the German army had been undefeated in the field, but had been betrayed in the homeland by demands for peace and revolutionary events. In the politically heated mood of these years, a hate and violence climate was created that made political murders possible.

Victims of political murder

1919 January:  KPD leader Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht murdered
1919 February: Kurt Eisner - Bavarian Prime Minister murdered
1921 August:   
Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician, Reich Minister of Finance from 1919 to 1920. Prominent in the Catholic Centre Party, he spoke out against World War I. On August 26th 1921, he was murdered!
1922 June: Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau shot dead