What if the Weimar Republic collapsed into a civil war?

Deblano

Deblano

As a lot of us know, the German Weimar republic was plagued with an abundance of internal troubles, such as hyperinflation, political extremists, massive unemployment, and the omnipresent shame from WWI. Considering these issues, including the shift from liberal democracy to a Nazi totalitarian state, could things in Weimar Germany have gotten so bad that the entire country could have collapsed into a civil war?

If so, what would have triggered a German Civil War, and when would it have happened?
 

Blackfox5

Hyperinflation only occurred in 1923 (with high, but not hyperinflation in the years before that).

Massive unemployment only happened in late 1929 to 1933.

Economy was actually very good 1924-1929.

There were several Communist revolts from 1919-1923, but they were suppressed by the army and right wing parliamentary groups.

The only real possibility for a German civil war is in the very early years. After 1923, there was not enough problems for the Reds to take advantage of.

There is more than enough chaos 1919-1920 and during the hyperinflation crisis in summer 1923 that the country might have broken down.
 

Woolly Mammoth

A possibility might have been Bavaria; under a volkisch/BVP consensus of far-right nationalist nuttiness successfully breaking away from a Weimar Republic that in 1923 chooses a leftie government including the KPD rather than Stresemann, moderate right alternative. The Black Reichwehr could have made things unpleasant elsewhere but far right sentiment was at that point strongly concentrated enough to result in a division rather than long-term civil war. that results in all Germany going either way.
 
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