Hamburg Uprising

Hamburg Uprising
Part of the Revolutions of 1917–1923, German October and Political violence in Germany (1918–1933)

Reichswehr soldiers searching passersby near a barricade
Date23–24 October 1923
Location
Hamburg, Germany
Result Weimar Republic Victory
Belligerents
 Communist Party of Germany
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Friedrich Ebert
Arnold Diestel		 Hugo Urbahns
Hans Kippenberger
Albert Schreiner
Heinz Neumann
Ernst Thälmann
Units involved
 Reichswehr
Hamburg Police		 Rebel Volunteers
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

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.

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