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19183–5 November 1918 · Kiel

Kiel mutiny

A crowd of sailors and workers gathers on Kiel's Wilhelmplatz during the revolution of November 1918
Archival image: Ernst Meyer. CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

Ordered to sea for a last battle against the Royal Navy, sailors of the German High Seas Fleet refused. In Kiel, protests for the release of arrested mutineers turned deadly on 3 November 1918, and by the next evening some 40,000 sailors, soldiers and workers held the city under a soldiers' council. The revolt spread across Germany, hastened the armistice and brought down the Kaiser within a week.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Union House (Gewerkschaftshaus), KielPlaque where the workers' and soldiers' council met.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Laboe Naval MemorialTower memorial of 1927–36 to sailors lost at sea, with a museum.Map ↗

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