Threats from the left

Spartacists led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and made up of rebel soldiers and sailors. Spartacists launched their bid for power, but Ebert made an agreement with the army and the freikorps to end the rebellion. Street fighting and heavy casualties followed, but the freikorps won and Karl and Rosa were killed. Another rebellion happened in Bavaria but, Ebert used the same tactics and crushed the revolt in May 1919 with around 600 communists killed. In 1920 there was communist agitation in the Ruhr but this time with 2000 casualties