(1920) In Germany, a coup d'état that attempted to overthrow the fledgling Weimar Republic .
Its immediate cause was the government's attempt to demobilize two Freikorps brigades. One of the brigades took Berlin, with the cooperation of the Berlin army district commander. Wolfgang Kapp (1858–1922), a reactionary member of the Reichstag, formed a government with Erich Ludendorff , and the legitimate republican regime fled to southern Germany. Within four days, a general strike by labour unions and the refusal by civil servants to follow Kapp's orders led to the coup's collapse.