Hitler and the Nazi Party planned to seize Munich and use the city as a base for a march against Germany's national government.
Result
Government victory
Putsch failure
Arrest of Nazi Party leadership
Belligerents
Kampfbund
Nazi Party (NSDAP)
Sturmabteilung (SA)
Stoßtrupp-Hitler
Bund Reichskriegsflagge
Freikorps Oberland
Weimar Republic
Bavarian Police
Reichswehr
Commanders and leaders
Adolf Hitler (WIA) Erich Ludendorff Ernst Röhm Rudolf Hess Ernst Pöhner Scheubner-Richter † Robert Wagner Hermann Göring (WIA) Heinrich Himmler
Eugen von Knilling
Gustav von Kahr
Hans von Seisser
Otto von Lossow
Military support
2,000+
130
Casualties and losses
15 killed About a dozen injured Many captured and imprisoned
4 killed Several wounded
1 civilian killed
v
t
e
Political violence in Germany (1918–1933)
1918-1923
German strike of January 1918
Collapse of the Imperial German Army
German Revolution of 1918–1919
Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)
Occupation of the Rhineland
Silesian Uprisings
Feme murders
1920 East Prussian plebiscite
Reichstag Bloodbath
Kapp Putsch
Ruhr uprising
French occupation of Frankfurt
March Action
Klaipėda Revolt
Occupation of the Ruhr
Cuno strikes
Küstrin Putsch
German October
Hamburg Uprising
Beer Hall Putsch
1929-1933
Blutmai
Stennes revolt
Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck
Altona Bloody Sunday
1932 Prussian coup d'état
Potempa murder of 1932
Kwami Affair
1932 Berlin transport strike
Reichstag fire
Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
Related
July Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,[1][note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic. Approximately two thousand Nazis marched on the Feldherrnhalle, in the city centre, but were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the deaths of 15 Nazis, four police officers, and one bystander.[2][3]
Hitler escaped immediate arrest and was spirited off to safety in the countryside. After two days, he was arrested and charged with treason.[4]
The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation for the first time and generated front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. His arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which was widely publicised and gave him a platform to express his nationalist sentiments. Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison,[note 2] where he dictated Mein Kampf to fellow prisoners Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess. On 20 December 1924, having served only nine months, Hitler was released.[5][6] Once released, Hitler redirected his focus towards obtaining power through legal means rather than by revolution or force, and accordingly changed his tactics, further developing Nazi propaganda.[7]
^Dan Moorhouse, ed. The Munich Putsch. Archived 5 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine schoolshistory.org.uk, accessed 2008-05-31.
^Shirer 1960, pp. 73–75.
^"Einsatz für Freiheit und Demokratie". 11 June 2015. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
^Hitler, Adolf (1924). Der Hitler-Prozeß vor dem Volksgericht in München [The Hitler Trial Before the People's Court in Munich]. Munich: Knorr & Hirth. OCLC 638670803.
^Harold J. Gordon Jr., The Hitler Trial Before the People's Court in Munich (Arlington, VA: University Publications of America 1976)
^Fulda, Bernhard (2009). Press and politics in the Weimar Republic. Oxford University Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-0-19-954778-4.
^Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience, p. 24, ISBN 0-674-01172-4.
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