A Collection of Karl Goetz Medals

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