Wolfgang Kapp

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Wolfgang Kapp (July 24, 1858–June 12, 1922) was an East Prussian civil servant and journalist. He was a strict nationalist, and a nominal leader of the so-called Kapp Putsch that took place in Weimar Republic in 1920.

In 1919 he was elected to the Reichstag as a monarchist.

Kapp became Chancellor of the new government for a short while and managed to establish the Kapp Putsch,although the Freikorps leader, Captain Ehrhardt and General Luttwitz had been its main organisers.

When the putsch (aka coup) failed, Kapp was forced to flee the country. He found a place of refuge in Sweden.

After two years in exile, he was allowed to return to Germany in April 1922. He died shortly afterwards, of cancer, in Leipzig.