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    The Kapp Putsch (German pronunciation: [ˈkapˌpʊt͡ʃ] ), also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch (German pronunciation: [kapˈlʏtvɪt͡sˌpʊt͡ʃ] ), was an attempted...
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    political activist who is best known for his involvement in the 1920 Kapp Putsch. He spent most of his career working for the Prussian Ministry of Finance...
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    the state". During the 1920 Kapp Putsch, Seeckt refused to deploy the Reichswehr against the Freikorps involved in the putsch but immediately afterwards...
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    The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP)...
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    began during the Kapp Putsch, was ruthlessly put down with the active involvement of the Reichswehr.) As a result of the Kapp Putsch, Noske was replaced...
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    Waldemar Pabst (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    Freikorps. Pabst played a leading role in the failed Kapp Putsch and, along with Wolfgang Kapp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt of Hermann Ehrhardt, was...
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    all of them sided with the anti-republicans. The putsch attempt collapsed after six days. The Kapp Putsch and ensuing general strike led to a profound break...
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    Area. It grew out of the widespread strike movement that defeated the Kapp Putsch. On 20 January 1920 Alexandre Millerand succeeded Georges Clemenceau...
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    Walther von Lüttwitz (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    I. Lüttwitz is best known for being the driving force behind the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920 which attempted to replace the democratic government of the...
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  • failed Kapp Putsch where together with almost the entire naval officer corps he declared himself openly for the "government" of Wolfgang Kapp against...
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    Ruhr uprising (category Kapp Putsch)
    triggered by the call for a general strike in response to the right-wing Kapp Putsch of 13 March 1920 and became an armed rebellion when radical left workers...
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    the Weimar Republic. In March 1920, a coup organized by Wolfgang Kapp (the Kapp Putsch) attempted to overthrow the government, but the venture collapsed...
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  • especially officers, went to Bavaria and joined the Nazi Party. Beer Hall Putsch Kapp Putsch Gordon, Harold J. (1957). The Reichswehr and the German Republic 1919–1926...
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    significant Army officers around him and launched the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch. The success of the Putsch would open up a possibility of a recommencement of...
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    of suppressing revolts and communist uprisings. After the failed Kapp-Lütwitz Putsch in March 1920 that the Freikorps participated in, the Freikorps'...
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    praise for doing so with a minimum use of force. Following the 1920 Kapp Putsch, Severing was named Prussian interior minister. During his three terms...
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  • William Kapp (1891–1969), American architect Wolfgang Kapp (1858–1922), German political activist and journalist, leader of the Kapp Putsch Osvald Käpp (1905–1995)...
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    Erich Ludendorff (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    the Weimar Republic, he took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Erich Ludendorff came from a family of minor nobility...
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  • Bruno Ernst Buchrucker (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    As garrison commander in Cottbus, Buchrucker supported the March 1920 Kapp Putsch against the German government. On 13 March mutinous troops occupied the...
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    in Germany's Ruhr region. The uprising was sparked by the right-wing Kapp Putsch in Berlin and had as its goal the establishment of a soviet-style council...
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    Erich Raeder (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    failed Kapp Putsch when, together with almost the entire naval officer corps, he declared himself openly for the "government" of Wolfgang Kapp against...
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    included the 1920 attempt to overthrow the Weimar government, known as the Kapp Putsch. The Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler had a party flag based on the old colours...
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    1920 Kapp Putsch. It was called by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and received such broad support that it resulted in the collapse of the putsch. The...
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    (regular army) with border security troops in the east. At the time of the Kapp Putsch in 1920, he took the Weimar Republic's side. He subsequently resigned...
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    Hermann Ehrhardt (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    1918–1919 and later was among the key players in the anti-republican Kapp Putsch of March 1920. After the brigade's forced disbanding, Ehrhardt used the...
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    created Ministry of the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. During the Kapp Putsch of 1920, Reinhardt remained loyal to the elected government and was one...
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    proposals for reform that stayed within the system. During the 1920 Kapp Putsch, however, the party, like its chairman Stresemann, played a role that...
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    unsuccessful Kapp Putsch, which it was seen as having handled badly. The Ruhr uprising, which broke out in the aftermath of the putsch, took place during...
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    Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    acquaintance of Wolfgang Kapp and Erich Ludendorff among others. In 1920, following the Kapp Putsch, he was appointed press censor to Kapp's provisional government...
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    Albert Leo Schlageter (category Kapp Putsch participants)
    Schlageter returned to Germany. In 1920, Schlageter took part in the Kapp Putsch and some of the battles between the military and communist factions that...
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