Uprsings

• When was the Kapp putsch?

  13th March, 1920
• Causes of kapp putch

  Hate for Treaty of Versaille

  Government announcing the disbanding of Freikorps

  Wanting the return of the Kaiser

  To take over and make the army strong again
• Involvement

  Wolfgang Kapp and The Freikorps
• How many Freikorps?

  5,000
• Why was takeover easy?

  Army refused to shoot as they were ex-soldiers, also the police joined the Freikorps in the coup
• What was the kapp putsch?

  The attempted coup against the Weimar government
• Wolfgang Kapp 


  Monarchist

  Right-wing extremist
• What happened to Ebert?

  Ebert and government were forced to flee
• What did they do to the public?

  They would strike, causing no accessibility to:

  Water

  Electricity

  Transport

  Gas
• Result

  Kapp and Freikorps failed, they realised takeover was impossible and fled to the countryside
• What happened to Kapp after?

  He returned to Germany where he awaited trial in jail however dies before it could happen
• What year was did kapp return?

  April, 1922