103733 | GERMANY. Counterrevolution in Berlin cast bronze Medal.

103733  |  GERMANY. Counterrevolution in Berlin cast bronze Medal. Dated 1920. On the Kapp-Lüttwitz putsch to overthrow the elected government of Friedrich Ebert & Gustav Bauer (59mm, 73.15 g, 12h). By Karl Goetz in München.

 

GEGEN REVOLUTION IN BERLIN, Walter von Lüttich and Wolfgang Kapp on horses trotting right; to right, Chancellor Gustav Bauer flees rightward; in two lines in exergue, DER 5 TAGE / KANZLER (the five day chancellor) // Representation of the people's strike, with a giant cog (with banner reading "GENERAL– / STREIK / 13-21 MÄRZ / 1920" in four lines) ground to a halt by the populace. Edge: KGoeTz.

 

Kienast 260. Gem Mint State. Tan-brown surfaces.

 

Not long after the creation of the Weimar Republic, an attempt was made to return Germany to an autocratic form of government. The Weimar was born out of the ashes of the German Empire upon the latter's dissolution and Germany's defeat in World War I. Punishment from the German involvement in the war began to sow discontent, with the attempted coup d'état meant to return German prominence through force. Its leaders, Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, were successful in only briefly seizing power, with the attempt being known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch, or even simply the Kapp Putsch. Despite its brevity, a disturbance of just five days in March 1920, it had a lasting effect of galvanizing right wing support in Germany, setting the stage for further discontent and the events that would ultimately lead to World War II.

 

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