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Beer Hall Putsch: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Hitlerputsch • Münchener Putsch • Bierkeller Putsch • Munich Putsch
Date November 8, 1923 - November 9, 1923
Location Germany • Munich
Participants Nazi Party

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Beer Hall Putsch
Wolfgang Kapp
Portrait of Prussian general Erich Ludendorff, shown with a stern expression, short hair, and mustache, wearing a dark suit and white collared shirt.
Adolf Hitler and his Beer Hall Putsch coconspirators
Economic and Political Crises Faced by Germany's Weimar Republic
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Key People

Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German political leader and convicted war criminal
Friedrich Ebert, c. 1924.
Friedrich Ebert
president of Weimar Republic
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff
German general
Rudolph Hess
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi leader
Dietrich, Sepp
Josef Dietrich
German military officer
Daluege, Himmler, and Röhm
Ernst Röhm
German army officer