Schleicher Offensive

Schleicher Offensive
Part of the German Civil War
Freikorps march through Leipzig after capturing the city, May 1920
Date 19 January 1920 – 26 June 1920 (5 months, 7 days) Location Western and Central Germany Result White operational failure White forces are routed at Berlin but seize control of Leipzig and large swathes of Western and Central Germany White forces fail to conquer the Ruhr region The Summer Offensive begins, resulting in a reversal of White gains and an eventual Spartacist victory
Belligerents
Spartacists	Weimar Republic
Commanders and leaders
Ernst Thälmann Ludwig Renn Hans Marchwitza	Kurt von Schleicher Walther von Lüttwitz Werner von Blomberg
Strength
800,000 soldiers (January) 1,500,000 soldiers (June)	800,000 soldiers (January) 600,000 soldiers (June)
Casualties and losses
250,000 killed or missing 600,000 wounded or sick	170,000 killed or missing 500,000 wounded or sick 20,000 captured

The Schleicher Offensive (German: Schleicher-Offensive) was a major strategic offensive operation conducted by the armed forces of the German White Movement against the forces of the socialist Spartacist government from early to mid-1920 during the German Civil War. Though initially resulting in significant gains for the Whites, the offensive ended in failure with the defeat in the Battle of Berlin. It was followed by the Spartacist Summer Offensive, which ended the war in November.