Events of the Munich Putsch

• Who were the three key leaders involved in the Putsch alongside Hitler?

  Gustav von Kahr, Colonel von Seisser, and General von Lossow
• Why did the three key leaders want to delay the Putsch?


  They wanted to delay the Putsch for strategic reasons
• What action did Hitler take to assert control during the Putsch?

  He interrupted a meeting at a Beer Hall and took Kahr, Seisser, and Lossow prisoner
• Who supported Hitler during the interruption of the meeting on 8 November 1923?

  General Ludendorff
• What did Ludendorff allow Von Kahr and his associates to do during the night?


  He allowed them to go home
• What action did Von Lossow take after being released?


  He alerted the local army barracks
• What was the outcome of Hitler's decision to launch the march on 9 November despite key desertions?

  It resulted in a lack of support and violent confrontation
• How many SA members supported Hitler during the march?

  1000 SA members
• How many locals were bribed to support Hitler's march?

  2000 locals
• What happened during the march when they encountered local police and army?

  Shots were fired, resulting in casualties
• Who supported Hitler in taking charge of events himself?

  General Ludendorff
• When did Hitler interrupt a meeting at Beer Hall in Munich?

  In the evening of the 8th November 1923
• When did Hitler launch his march?

  9th November 1923
• How did he bribe local people to join the march?

  Money from a bank robbery
• Who did Hitler march alongside in the front?

  Ludendorff, Goering, Rohm and Streicher.
• What happened when they marched?

  Local police and army blocked their path, shots were fired and 14 marchers and 4 police died.
• What did Hitler do when the march failed?

  He fled the scene, but was arrested two days later on 11th November, found hiding in a cupboard.
• What did the other leaders do when the march failed?

  They were arrested or fled into exile and the ‘march on Berlin’ was over almost as soon as it had begun.
• The putsch originally only involved Hitler as a minor figure with the three key leaders being Gustav von Kahr, Colonel von Seisser and General von Lossow, who were all powerful figures in Bavaria. However, they wanted to delay the Putsch.
• Hitler disagreed and decided to take charge of events himself, with the support of General Ludendorff, by interrupting a meeting at which the three men were speaking at a Beer Hall in Munich on the evening of 8 November, 1923. He took Karr, Seisser and Lossow prisoner.
• Ludendorff allowed Von Kahr and his associates to go home during the night. Von Lossow alerted the local army barracks.
• At midday on 9 November Hitler decided to launch his march, despite the key desertions, and was supported by 1000 SA members and 2000 locals bribed with from a bank robbery. He marched at the front alongside Ludendorff, Goering, Rohm and Streicher.
• There was no further support from the local population and the local police and army blocked their path. Shots were fired, 14 marchers and four police were killed.
• Hitler fled the scene but was arrested two days later on 11 November, found hiding in a cupboard.
• The other leaders were arrested or fled into exile and the ‘march on Berlin’ was over almost as soon as it had begun.