WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wolfgang Kapp, (born July 24, 1858, New York, N.Y., U.S.-died June 12, 1922, Leipzig, Ger.), reactionary Prussian politician who led the Kapp Putsch (1920), which attempted to overthrow the fledgling Weimar Republic and establish a rightist dictatorship.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Kapp putsch was a March 1920 attempt to overthrow the Social Democratic Party (SPD) government, carried out by army officers, Freikorps members and right-wing nationalists. The attempted coup was thwarted by public opposition, divisions within the military and misjudgements by those who initiated it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The immediate cause of the Kapp Putsch was the government’s resolve to force the demobilization of the right-wing Freikorps (“Free Corps”) brigades, Ehrhardt and Baltikum. With the cooperation of the commander of the Berlin army district, however, the Ehrhardt troops took Berlin (March 13, 1920).

Detailed explanation-4: -Freikorps commanders such as Ferdinand von Schill, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow or Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, known as the “Black Duke", led their own attacks on Napoleonic occupation forces in Germany.