Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923 when the nascent Nazi party's Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the Kampfbund, unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. (A putsch is what Germans call a coup d'etat or a revolt of a small number of people, e.g. a military coup.)

Nazi martyrs of the putsch

• Felix Alfarth
• Andreas Bauriedl
• Theodor Casella
• William Ehrlich
• Martin Faust
• Anton Hechenberger
• Oskar Körner
• Karl Kuhn
• Karl Laforce
• Kurt Neubauer
• Klaus von Pape
• Theodor von der Pfordten
• Johann Rickmers
• Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter
• Lorenz Ritter von Stransky
• Wilhelm Wolf

These persons were regarded as the first "martyrs" of the Nazi Party, and were remembered by Hitler in the foreword of Mein Kampf. In 1935, they were interred at an ornate mausoleum in Munich. In 1947, the Allied Control Commission demolished the mausoleum and scattered the remains.

Related Topics:
Mein Kampf - Mausoleum - Allied Control Commission

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