A hundred years ago - 22/03/1920

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** 22/03/1919 **

- The General German Trade Union Confederation (ADGB) MSPD and USPD explain the proclaimed on 13 March during the Kapp Putsch general strike ended. Prior to the ruling MSPD was received by the signing of an eight points program in part on demands of the working (inter alia withdrawal of troops, transformation of the security force and form a working government). On March 23, the so-called. Revolutionary councils of Greater Berlin vote by a narrow margin for an interruption of the general strike.

• The German Defense Minister Gustav Noske (MSPD) resigns. Both within the unions and in his own party, he is highly controversial because of its military friendly policies. He is hated in large parts of the workforce because of brutal combat demonstrations and riots.
  
  
• Reich President Friedrich Ebert (MSPD) convene in accordance with Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, the DDP-politician Arnold Paulssen as Reich Commissioner with extraordinary powers for the seven Thuringian states. Ebert wants to respond to the broken in Thuringia uprising. Article 48 allows the engagement of the Empire in the rights of countries (Reichsexekution). Regulation - Ebert also supported in its right to dictatorship violence - is lifted on 10 April.