Timeline of the Weimar Republic
October 1918
- Max von Baden becomes Chancellor
- Military command of sea warfare orders attack on fleet
- The Supreme Army Command (OHL) fires Ludendorff.
- Constitutional reforms take effect
November 1918
- Sailors’ uprising in Kiel
- Revolution in Berlin
- The Council of People’s Representatives is formed
- The DDP, DNVP, and DVP parties are founded
- Armistice ends the war
December 1918
- The German Reich’s workers’ and soldiers’ councils meet
- Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss
- The USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party) leaves the
- Council of People’s Representatives
- Convention founding the KPD (German Communist Party)