Bisingen Crisis

Bisingen Crisis
Date April 21 – December 18, 2005 (2005-04-21 – 2005-12-18) Location Bisingen Result Restructuring of the government of Bisingen
Belligerents
German Workers' Army	Royal Army of Bisingen

The Bisingen Crisis was a nealy 8-month long standoff between the government of Bisingen which had existed since 1967 and left-wing revolutionaries and paramilitaries which sought to depose it. The revolutionary forces, many of which were either closely affiliated with or a part of the German-Socialist Workers-and-Farmers-Party (DSABP), only further coalesced around the party throughout the crisis and as a result the DSABP became the de facto government of areas controlled by these forces throughout the crisis. This coincided with the incorporation of many of these paramilitary groups into the German Workers' Army, a paramilitary force which operated directly as the armed wing of the DSABP.

Uprising in Jena

On the morning of April 21, an assemblage of left-wing protesters amassed in the Market Square of Jena to protest rising utility prices. Not long after, police confronted the protesters and attempted to disperse the protests. Though at first the majority of the protesters complied at peacefully left the square, some went to rally far-left militias and paramilitaries and returned to resume the protests. While the German Workers' Army, the paramilitary wing of the DSABP, refused to get involved in fear of a police confrontation, the Red Police of Thuringia, a far-left paramilitary returned with some of the protesters, armed in an attempt to intimidate police into backing down. Police returned to the square are again demanded the protesters once again disperse. As the protesters failed to comply, police threatened to use force. According to witnesses, a member of the militia who had come to deter police interference fired his weapon and shot police officer Karl Dennard.