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Wolfgang Kapp
Sign in to savePrussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wolfgang
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Father
- Friedrich Kapp
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium
- Political party
- German Fatherland Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Image
- Wolfgang Kapp.jpeg
- Work location
- Berlin
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- Commons category
- Wolfgang Kapp
- date of birth
- 1858-07-24
- date of death
- 1922-06-12
- member of
- Corps Hannovera Göttingen
- name in native language
- Wolfgang Kapp
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wolfgang Kapp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.