German October

The German October (German: Deutscher Oktober) was a plan of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) to attempt a communist revolution in the Weimar Republic in October 1923.

The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) under the slogan of a left-wing "United Front" entered into a coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the states of Thuringia and Saxony which was seen as a favorable moment for a revolution.^[1] The ECCI wanted to exploit the political crisis in Germany to help German communists seize power and thereby start a new wave of revolutions in Central Europe as a prelude to the communist world revolution. The KPD began building paramilitary forces for a revolution modelled on the October Revolution and planned for October or November 1923. The German October was prevented by the German government which used the Reichsexekution against Saxony and Thuringia, suspending the authority of the left-wing state governments, and crushed the paramilitaries with the Reichswehr and police.