biography
pronunciation:
[kap]
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| lived:
| (1858–1922)
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| biography:
| German politician and lawyer, born in New York City. An extreme Nationalist, he founded in 1917 the right-wing Deutsche Vaterlandspartei with Tirpitz, and became Generallandschaftsdirektor in E Prussia. He led the abortive Kapp Putsch, after which he fled to Sweden, where he died in prison during trial by the Reichsgericht. |
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