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Wolfgang Kapp

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Wolfgang Kapp

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Prussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)

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Key facts

Preceded by
Fritz Gottschalk
Succeeded by
constituency abolished
Born
( 1858-07-24 ) 24 July 1858, New York City , New York , United States
Died
12 June 1922 (1922-06-12) (aged 63), Klinikum St. Georg , Leipzig , Weimar Republic
Party
German Fatherland Party , German National People's Party
Spouse
Margarete Rosenow
Alma mater
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , Georg-August University of Göttingen
Occupation
Civil servant, politician
Profession
Lawyer

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Encyclopedic overview

Wolfgang Kapp (24 July 1858 – 12 June 1922) was a German conservative and nationalist and political activist who is best known for his involvement in the eponymous 1920 Kapp Putsch. He spent most of his career working for the Prussian Ministry of Finance and then as director of the Agricultural Credit Institute in East Prussia. During World War I, Kapp was a vocal annexationist and critic of the government's policies, which he saw as not aggressive enough. His strong dislike of parliamentary government and the Weimar Republic led him to take a leading role in the 1920 putsch that bears his name. Following the putsch's failure to overthrow the German government, Kapp went into exile in Sweden. He returned to Germany in late 1921 to appear in court, but died while under medical care before he could testify.

Early life

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