Freikorps Caspari

It was part of the wider Freikorps movement, volunteer fighters who harshly suppressed socialists, anarchists and communists.

In the wake of the First World War, the new Weimar Republic saw a massive increase in revolutionary activity, culminating in the German Revolution of 1918–19.

After a month, following the suppression of the Spartacist uprising, Gustav Noske authorized a military intervention against Bremen's revolutionaries.

Caspari, a veteran of the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War, had previously been expelled from the Bremen workers' and soldiers' council after communist pressure.

In the ensuing combat, twenty-four Freikorps fighters and twenty-eight armed workers were killed, in addition to twenty-nine civilian casualties (eighteen men, five women, and six children).