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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.
Walther von Lüttwitz was in command of all Freikorps in Berlin and the surrounding area, while Wilhelm Reinhard commanded the Freikorps Reinhard and Waldemar Pabst, known as a perpetrator of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, commanded the Guards Cavalry Rifle Division. In Spandau, revolutionary soldiers guarding a weapons ...
Walther von Lüttwitz (centre) and Gustav Noske (right), c. 1920. Although the Putsch has been named after Wolfgang Kapp, a 62-year-old nationalist East Prussian civil servant, who had been planning a coup against the republic for a while, it was instigated by the military; Kapp played a supporting role.
Max von Bahrfeldt; William Balck; Martin Chales de Beaulieu; Eduard von Below; Ernst von Below; Fritz von Below; Otto von Below; Friedrich von Bernhardi; Albert von Berrer; Hans Hartwig von Beseler; Moritz von Bissing; Alfred von Böckmann; Max von Boehn (general) Felix Graf von Bothmer; Otto von Brandenstein; Karl von Bülow; Johannes von Busse
The German General Government of Belgium (Kaiserliches Deutsches Generalgouvernement Belgien), was established on 26 August 1914 with Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz as the Military Governor. Goltz was succeeded by General Moritz von Bissing on 27 November 1914. [58] Soon after Bissing's appointment, OHL divided Belgium into three ...
Georg von Trapp: 19 11 [24] 47,653 [24] Von Trapp (1880–1947) was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of the war. In addition to 11 merchant ships, he also sank the French armored cruiser Léon Gambetta and the Italian submarine Nereide. After the war, he lost most of his money, which had been deposited in an Austrian ...
Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1896–1969), German army officer and equestrian Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1895–1975), German army general Walther von Lüttwitz (1859–1942), German army general
General Walther von Lüttwitz, who initiated the Kapp Putsch. On 10 March 1920, General Walther von Lüttwitz decided to stage a coup after Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske relieved him of the command of several Reichswehr divisions. Kapp, who was in Berlin with a delegation from East Prussia, met with Lüttwitz to help plan the coup.