Kapp Putsch
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- Created on: 03-01-16 19:24
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The Kapp Putsch lasted five days
- First attempt by the extreme right wing to seize power from the constitutional government
- Considerable unease among the ranks of the Freikorps over the reduction of the German army according to the TOV and a propostition to disband the Erhardt Marine Brigade and the Baltikum was the pretence Kapp needed
- Luttwitz refused to diband and instead demanded the resignation of Ebert and the government and new election to the Reichstag
- Wolfkang Kapp, a right-wing journalist opposed everything Ebert stood for especially what he saw as the humiliation of Germany thanks to the TOV
- The Kapp Putsch was a direct threat to Weimar's new government
- It consisted of members of the paramilitary Freikorps
- Kapp was assisted by General Luttwitz
- March 13th 1920- Luttwitz seized Berlin and proclaimed that a new right of centre government with Kapp as chancellor was being established
- 12,000 troops sympathetic to the cause marched…
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