In the crisis year 1923 of the Weimar Republic the party leader of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, wanted to hold a meeting in Munich on 8-9 November to depose the government in Berlin through an armed putsch on November 11 and gain power in a national dictatorship. To this end, he had allied himself with radical right-wing forces and tried to use right-wing conservative circles in the Bavarian government and administration. Since these soon distanced themselves and the Reichswehr did not play along, the project failed. The Bavarian state police used violence to stop the march to the Feldherrnhalle. Although Hitler was released after his trial on 20 December 1924, the coup attempt had significant long-term consequences for both him and Bavaria.
Although the Republic of 1918/19 was founded by a bloodless upheaval and initially the democratic parties SPD, Center and DDP dominated the scene, the new state did not come to rest until 1924: in foreign policy due to the problems and the agitation about the Versailles Treaty (territorial cessions, occupation, reparations), internally by uprisings by the communists (Spartacus 1919, “Ruhrkampf” 1920, Central Germany 1921 and 1923) and the right-wing extremists (Kapp-Lüttwitz-Putsch 1920, Buchrucker-Putsch 1923). In addition, there were serious economic problems due to the demobilization of the troops and increasing inflation. As early as 1920 the democratic parties in the Reich lost their majority; the rise of the republic critics and opponents (DNVP, USPD, KPD etc) began.…
