Model generally kept away from politics in the chaotic period that marked the birth of the Weimar Republic .
As an army officer Model was involved in the bloody suppression of the 1920 communist uprising in the Ruhr .
Model generally kept away from politics in the chaotic period that marked the birth of the Weimar Republic , although as an army officer he was involved in the bloody suppression of the 1920 communist uprising in the Ruhr .