Hamburg Uprising | |||||||
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Part of the Revolutions of 1917–1923 and Political violence in Germany (1918–1933) | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ernst Thälmann | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
6,000 police officers and soldiers | 5,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
17 dead 69 wounded |
21 dead 175 wounded 102 captured | ||||||
61 civilians dead 1,400 people arrested |
History of Hamburg |
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The Hamburg Uprising (German: Hamburger Aufstand) was a communist insurrection that occurred in Hamburg in Weimar Germany on 23 October 1923. A militant section of the Hamburg Communist Party of Germany launched an uprising as part of the so-called German October. Rebels stormed 24 police stations, 17 in Hamburg and seven in Schleswig-Holstein Province in Prussia, and established barricades around the city. The communist insurgency in Hamburg was futile, lacking support from the rest of Germany or from the Soviet Union, and disintegrated within a day. Around 100 people died during the Hamburg Uprising and the exact details of the event, as well as the assessment of its impact, remain controversial.