Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Historical and Art Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1563

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£50

Kapp Putsch, 1920, cast bronze, Wolfgang Kapp regarding equestrian figure of Noske, rev. crowd clambering on wheel, general striek and date on central banner, 58mm (K 260). Very fine (£70-90)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Karl Goetz Medals.

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Illustrated on the Plates. The Kapp Putsch, more accurately the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch, was an extreme right-wing attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic in March 1920. Its nominal leader was Wolfgang Kapp (1858-1922), a New York-born East Prussian civil servant and fervent nationalist. The government, forced to abandon Berlin, moved to Stuttgart and issued a proclamation calling on Germany's workers to defeat the putsch by means of a general strike. The strike call received massive support and with the country paralysed, the putsch collapsed. Kapp fled to Sweden, returning to Leipzig in 1922 only to die of cancer