Willy Römer (1887-1979) Spartakist Revolution and the interwar period. Germany, 1918-1926. Berlin. Moving weapons to the Märkischen Museum. Workers and soldiers in arms. Spartakist demonstration. The Eden Hotel, headquarters of the government leaders and the free corps troops. Barricades. Strike of restaurant and hotel owners in Berlin. Wounded. Spartakist parliamentarians negotiating the armistice with government troops. Street fights. Trenches. Inflation after the war. Rationing. Occupation of Linden-Strasse. General strike at Alexanderplatz. Ruins of the police headquarters. Explosion of a mine in Schutzenstrasse. Bombed building. Air fleet at the Berlin airfield. Control post. Destruction of the German fleet in Kiel. Weimar. The German army protects the National Assembly. 118 silver prints and counter prints (c. 1960). Numerous legends and dates typed on labels, pasted on the backs. Some stamps "Willy Römer" and "Marcel Delius" on the reverse. Average size of the prints : 18 x 24 cm Provenance : Archives of the Berlin reporter-photographer Willy Römer . After the end of the imperial regime, the young German republic was confronted with an ideological struggle within the left-wing parties, which were divided between reformers and revolutionaries. In January 1919, German Chancellor Friedrich Ebert (Social Democratic Party) dismissed the Berlin police prefect Emil Eichhorn (Independent Social Democratic Party), who had refused to suppress the Christmas 1918 sailors' strike. An insurrectional movement followed, which was reductively called "Spartakist" after the revolutionary party founded by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. The latter was assassinated at the end of January and the revolts were violently crushed. The Berlin photographer and reporter Willy Römer documented the entire period and the adoption of the first constitution in Weimar, which only brought relative calm to these dissensions. Willy Römer (1887-1979) Spartakist revolution and the interwar period. Germany, 1918-1926. Berlin. Moving weapons to the Märkischen Museum. Workers and sodats in arms. Spartakist demonstration. The Eden Hotel, headquarters of the government leaders and free corps troops. Barricades. Strike of restaurant and hotel owners in Berlin. Wounded. Spartakist parliamentarians negotiating the armistice with government troops. Street fights. Trenches. Inflation after the war. Rationing. Occupation of Linden-Strasse. General strike at Alexanderplatz. Ruins of the police headquarters. Explosion of a mine in Schutzenstrasse. Bombed building. Air fleet at the Berlin airfield. Control post. Destruction of the German fleet in Kiel. Weimar. The German army protects the national assembly. 118 gelatin silver prints and countertypes (c. 1960) . Numerous captions and dates typed on labels, mounted on verso. Some stamps "Willy Romer" and "Marcel Delius" on verso. Average size of the prints : 18 x 24 cm Provenance : archives of the Berlin reporter-photographer Willy Römer .