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2. Kapp Putsch - Wikipedia

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   Government poster against the Kapp Putsch, 13 March 1920. [a]After Germany had lost World War I (1914–1918), the German Revolution of 1918–1919 ended the monarchy. The German Empire was abolished and a democratic system, the Weimar Republic, was established in 1919 by the Weimar National Assembly.

3. Walther von Lüttwitz - Wikipedia

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   Walther Karl Friedrich Ernst Emil Freiherr [1] von Lüttwitz [2] (2 February 1859 – 20 September 1942) was a German general who fought in World War 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 Weimar Republic with a military dictatorship.

4. Weimar paramilitary groups - Wikipedia

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   The Kapp Putsch of March 1920, a failed attempt to overthrow the government of the Weimar Republic, drew its military support from the Freikorps, in particular the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt. It was after the failure of the Kapp Putsch, and under Allied pressure to keep both Germany's official and unofficial military forces at the 100,000 man limit ...

5. Ruhr uprising - Wikipedia

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   The Ruhr uprising (German: Ruhraufstand), or March uprising (Märzaufstand), was a left-wing workers' revolt in the Ruhr region of Germany in March and April 1920. It was 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 used the strike as an opportunity to attempt the establishment of a ...

6. Category:Kapp Putsch - Wikipedia

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   Articles relating to the Kapp Putsch, an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, its goal was to undo the German Revolution of 1918–1919, overthrow the Weimar Republic, and establish an autocratic government in its place.

7. Wolfgang Kapp - Wikipedia

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   Wolfgang Kapp (24 July 1858 – 12 June 1922) was a German conservative and nationalist and 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 and then as director of the Agricultural Credit Institute in East Prussia .

8. Hermann Ehrhardt - Wikipedia

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   Captain Hermann Ehrhardt (marked with a cross in the photograph) enters Berlin in a car with marine troops, Kapp-Lüttwitz-Putsch, 13 March 1920. Ehrhardt found in Wolfgang Kapp and General Walther von Lüttwitz , at the time commander-in-chief of the Berlin Reichswehr Group Command I, two men who were determined to reverse the results of the ...

9. Marinebrigade Ehrhardt - Wikipedia

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   When Ebert refused, Lüttwitz triggered the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch when he marched at the head of the Marine Brigade into Berlin. On the night of 12/13 March 1920, it occupied the government quarter of Berlin with from 2,000 to 6,000 men. It made up only a small fraction of the total free corps forces, which totaled around 30,000 men. [8]