Putsch of Kapp

The putsch of Kapp is an attempt at Putsch carried out between the March 13rd and the March 17th 1920 by a brigade carried out by Wolfang Kapp (1858-1922), founder in 1917 of the German Party of the fatherland with Alfred von Tirpitz, and the general Walter von Lüttwitz. It falls under the long series of interior disorders which knows the Weimar Republic until 1924.

In 1919, a irregular force, the “Ehrhardt brigade”, is created. But the Irregular forces, anti-republicans, represent a threat for the Weimar Republic. The Alliés require its dissolution, accepted by the Government of Reich.

March 13rd, 1920, a brigade of: 6000 irregular forces ordered by Kapp go on Berlin to force the government has to reconsider its decision. The army refuses to shoot at the insurrectionists (“Reichswehr does not draw on Reichswehr”), and the government is constrained to flee with Stuttgart. Kapp forms a new provisional government then. But he is then confronted with a four days general strike started by the left parties, which blocks all the economy, and with the resistance of the Berliner civils servant. Moreover, the Reichsbank refuse to finance its troops more. March 17th, Kapp is constrained to flee towards the Sweden. It returns nevertheless in Germany or it is stopped. He dies in 1922, before his lawsuit.

This failure nevertheless is perceived by the extreme line like an encouraging victory. It will justify Adolf Hitler in its Putsch of the brewery, in November 1923, which will also fail.

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