Events of the Munich Putsch

• 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