Lotter coup

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The Lotter putsch on February 19, 1919 was a failed attempt to disempower the Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner .

The Chief Petty Officer Konrad Lotter, a member of the country's soldiers Council and the Provisional National Council , tried to arrest and disempowerment of Kurt Eisner with 600 (mostly Bavarian) sailors. On February 19, 1919, the sailors occupied the Munich telegraph office and arrested the police chief Josef Staimer and the city ​​commander Oskar Dürr . The attempt to occupy the state parliament building failed because of the state guards in front of the state parliament building in Prannerstrasse. In a subsequent exchange of fire at the main station , one person was fatally injured, after which the uprising collapsed.

Konrad Lotter was arrested and was imprisoned in Stadelheim until the beginning of May , but the attempted coup was not prosecuted.

literature

  • Heinrich Hillmayr: Red and White Terror in Bavaria after 1918. Causes, manifestations and consequences of the violence in the course of the revolutionary events after the end of the First World War . Nusser, Munich 1974 ( Modern History Series 2), pp. 34–35.

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