Timeline Sunday 5 January 1919

Events on Sunday 5 January 1919 2

• 1919 German Workers' Party founded in Munich Small nationalist group later becomes the Nazi Party Anton Drexler founded the German Workers' Party in Munich as a small nationalist, anti-communist political group. Adolf Hitler joined later that year, and the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1920.
• 1919 Spartacist uprising in Berlin Communist revolt crushed by the German government The Spartacist League, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, attempted to seize power in Berlin through strikes and armed insurrection. The government crushed the revolt using regular troops and Freikorps paramilitaries, and both leaders were captured and killed.