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Wolfgang Kapp was born in New York on 24th July, 1858. His father had emigrated to the United States in 1849 but had returned with his family to Germany in 1870.
Kapp studied law and managed an estate in East Prussia before becoming a councillor at the Prussian ministry of agriculture.
Kapp developed right-wing views and helped establish the German Fatherland Party in 1917. The following year he was elected to the Reichstag where he campaigned for the restoration of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In March 1920, Herman Ehrhardt, a former naval commander led a group of Freikorps soldiers to take control of Berlin. Ehrhardt was protesting against the decision by Friedrich Ebert and his government to accept the Treaty of Versailles. Kapp accepted Ehrhardt's offer to form a new government.
The Kapp Putsch failed to win support from the German Army and was brought to an end when the trade unions in Berlin called a general strike.
Kapp fled to Sweden but returned to Germany in 1922 to stand trial for treason. Wolfgang Kapp died in prison on 12th June, 1922.
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