Lothar Popp unter Mitarbeit von Karl Artelt: "Ursprung und Entwicklung der November-Revolution 1918.", Sonderveröffentlichung 15 der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte, Kiel, 1983
Sailors' Revolt / Kiel
Mutiny November 1918 (Novemberrevolution
1918) -
here you'll find the following information:
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Interview with one of the leaders of the mutiny: Lothar Popp >> |
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CV Lothar Popp >> |
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Recollection of the other leader of the mutiny: Karl Artelt >> |
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CV Karl Artelt >> |
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Additional contemporary witnesses (Riedl, Bredenbek, Preßler, Pump; diary of an engineer, Jung, Völcker, ...) >> |
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Videofilm with contemporary witnesses: "Kiel schreibt Geschichte - Matrosenaufstand im November 1918" >> |
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Evaluations of the incidents in Kiel (Dähnhardt, Wette, ...) >> |
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Detailed time line with documents >> |
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Virtual sightseeing tour >> |
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Commentary >> |
The mutiny of the Kieler sailors ignited the German revolution of 1918. The major outcome was the first democracy in Germany, the Weimarer Republic, headed by Reichspräsident Friedrich Ebert. Thus Kiel played an important role in German history.
Teachers who are interested to use material from this site for their lessons, may be interested in a literature list regarding related methoddology (university of Muenster, German): >>
The virtual museum of the Schleswig-Holsteinisch-Danish border region (www.vimu.info) offers specific didactics regarding the topic revolution in Germany as pdf-file (German or Danish): >>The mentioned virtual museum (VIMU) also offers a lot of different material regarding the sailors' mutiny in Kiel (German or Danish): >>
A project of a work group of the Ricarda-Huch school from 1998 had been published on the website of the newspaper sh:z. Meanwhile it's no longer accessible; a copy can be found here (German only).
In January 2005 Matthias Klaus published a school project report about the mutiny in Kiel. Very interesting his vivid narration of the conditionns which led to revolution (German): pdf-Datei, 123 kB
Regarding the spreading of the mutiny over all Germany see e.g. Wikipedia >>.
Regarding the effects of the November Revolution the historian Prof. Dr. Peter Brandt held 2008 a very interesting lecture in Kiel >>
Publish your contributions or opinions in our web
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What do you think, should Lothar Popp and Karl Artelt get a memorial in Kiel?
Or how do you view the suggestion of Wilhelm Achelpöhler (Die Grünen,
Münster) to establish a "History location sailor's mutiny"
in Kiel? Our web-log: Kuhl-Blog >>
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