Kapp Putsch
카프 폭동
The coup attempt in Berlin on 13 March 1920, led by Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, which sought to undo the November Revolution, overthrow the Weimar Republic and set up an autocratic government. It collapsed within days in the face of a general strike called by the government and the refusal of civil servants to cooperate.
In depth
The Marine Brigade Ehrhardt, facing dissolution under the Versailles troop limits, occupied the government quarter, and the army command refused to defend the government on the ground that “troops do not fire on troops”. President Ebert and the Bauer government fled to Dresden and then Stuttgart. More than twelve million workers joined the general strike called by the trade unions, the SPD and the USPD, bringing the country to a halt, and Kapp fled on 17 March. Waldemar Pabst, Ludendorff, the Freikorps Rossbach and Lettow-Vorbeck in Mecklenburg were among those involved. Right afterwards a workers’ Red Army rose in the Ruhr, and the government, lenient towards the putschists, crushed that rising bloodily with Freikorps units. Noske resigned as defence minister.