Wolfgang Kapp
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Wolfgang Kapp (July 24, 1868–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.
In 1919 he was elected to the Reichstag as a monarchist.
In March 1920 Captain Erhardt, the leader of the Freikorps known as the Ehrhardt Brigade, attemted to overthrow the Government of the Weimar Republic by marching on Berlin, occupying the city, and installing his preferred Government by force. As a figurehead he chose Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, a German national, and nationalist, and politician of the extreme Right, as Chancellor.[1] General Freiherr Walther von Luettwitz, who had command at that time of the troops in the Berlin area, supported the putsch with his own troops.[2] The regular army, under the command of General von Seeckt stood inactive, and only a general strike by the trade unions united restored the republican government
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.
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