Wolfgang Kapp

On June 12, 1922, Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), died at the age of 63. From the article:

"Wolfgang Kapp (1858-1922) was a Prussian bureaucrat, journalist and politician. He is best known as the titular leader of the Kapp putsch, a failed military coup in March 1920.

Kapp was born in New York to German parents who returned to Europe when he was aged 11. His father, Friedrich, was a politician of liberal-progressive views.

Wolfgang Kapp was trained as a lawyer, earning a doctorate. He entered the Prussian civil service, rising to managerial positions while accumulating considerable landholdings and personal wealth.

Kapp’s politics were conservative, monarchist and enthusiastically nationalist. He supported German involvement in World War I and opposed the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918.

Kapp was closely associated with Alfred Hugenburg and was on friendly terms with high-ranking military officers including Admiral von Tirpitz, Erich Ludendorff and Walther von Luttwitz."