/ Spartacist uprising) and were crushed 10 January 1919 Battle of Berlin begins; Counter-revolution 13 January 1919 Battle of Berlin finished. January 1919 Bremen seized. Also: German Gov. moved to the city of Weimar. 15 January 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht murdered by Freikorps 6 February 1919 Fritz Ebert opens the Reichstag in Weimar, Germany. 11 February 1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD) leaves office. Also: Philipp Scheidemann appointed chancellor. 21 February 1919 Kurt Eisner assassinated. Also: Attempted assassination of Erhard Auer. 3 March 1919 2nd Battle for Berlin; Communists seize Berlin; Weimar government appoints Gustav Noske as German defense minister. 7 March 1919 Communist Strike Committee withdraws proclamation and makes peace overtures to government. 10 March 1919 Gustav Noske orders Peoples' Naval Division disbanded. Battle for Berlin over. March 1919 Adolf Hitler finishes job of guarding Russian prisoners. 6–7 April 1919 Bavaria declared a Soviet Republic. 14 April 1919 Freikorps suppress Communists in Dresden. 18 April 1919 Freikorps suppress Communists in Brunswick. Also: Battle of the Bavarian governments at Dachau. Communists defeat republican forces. 27 April 1919 Battle for Munich between Communists and Freikorps units. 29 April 1919 German representatives arrive in Paris. 1 May 1919 Communist defences at Munich breached. 2 May 1919 City of Munich taken; not declared secure until May 6; approximately 1200 Communists killed. 7 May 1919 German Delegation presented with the terms of the Treaty Of Versailles 10 May 1919 Freikorps suppress communists in Leipzig. 18 June 1919 Germany given ultimatum to sign Treaty of Versailles 21 June 1919 Philipp Scheidemann (SPD) leaves office 22 June 1919 German Reichstag ratify the Versailles Treaty. 28 June 1919 Versailles Treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors. Weimar Republic 11 August 1919 The Weimar Constitution is announced. 11 September 1919 Adolf Hitler sent as Vertrauensmann to infiltrate the German Workers' Party. 1920 January 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members. 4 February 1920 Allies demand 900 Germans be handed over for war crimes. 20 February 1920 DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party. February 1920 Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded. 24 February 1920 First public meeting of the NSDAP. 13 March 1920 Kapp Putsch 14 March 1920 Communists seize demilitarized Ruhr; Dortmund, Remscheid, Hagen, Mülheim, Düsseldorf; 300 people killed (mostly policemen). 17 March 1920 Kapp Putsch ends. 27 March 1920 Gustav Bauer (SPD) leaves office 31 March 1920 Adolf Hitler mustered out of