DBWI: Rosa Luxemburg assassinated

[Crunch Buttsteak]

Exactly what it says on the tin, how would history have played out if Friedrich Ebert’s collaborationist plot to have the far right freikorps kill Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 had succeeded?

Would the SPD have had a greater success electorally if they had successfully killed the KPD’s rising star, compared to OTL where the accusations of collaboration gutted their membership with the left coalescing into the KPD’s solid bloc?

Thoughts?

 

[Miss Teri]

Exactly what it says on the tin, how would history have played out if Friedrich Ebert’s collaborationist plot to have the far right freikorps kill Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 had succeeded?

Would the SPD have had a greater success electorally if they had successfully killed the KPD’s rising star, compared to OTL where the accusations of collaboration gutted their membership with the left coalescing into the KPD’s solid bloc?

Thoughts?

One of the great WI, since Ebert's involvement in the plot was declassified in 1951.

The attempted suppression of the Spartacists by Freikorps is often seen a precursor to the 1936 Officers Coup. With Luxemburg (and presumably Karl Liebknecht) killed and the KPD neutered, it's possible that Freikorps power might accelerate to a full-on authoritarian rightist or even fascist government, similar to Mussolini's Italy.