Gustav Noske

Gustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the first Minister of Defence of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske has been a controversial figure because although he was a member of the socialist movement, he used army and paramilitary forces to bloodily suppress the socialistcommunist uprisings of 1919. To do so, he made use of forces fundamentally opposed to the republic he served.

Noske was born onJuly 1868 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Prussia. He was the son of the weaver Karl Noske and the manual labourer Emma Noske . From 1874 to 1882 he went to primary and secondary school . In 1882 to 1886 he was apprenticed as a basket maker at the Reichsteinische Kinderwagenfabrik and travelled to Halle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Liegnitz as a journeyman. In 1884, Noske joined the Social Democratic Party and he also became a union member. In 1892, Noske was elected chairman of the Brandenburg SPD.

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