Gustav Ritter von Kahr
| Gustav Ritter von Kahr | |
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| Minister President of Bavaria | |
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In office 16 March 1920 – 21 September 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Johannes Hoffmann |
| Succeeded by | Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 16 March 1920 – 21 September 1921 |
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| Personal details | |
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29 November 1862 Weißenburg, Kingdom of Bavaria |
| Died | 30 June 1934 (aged 71) Dachau, Bavaria, Nazi Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Non-partisan |
| Residence | Bavaria |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Gustav Ritter von Kahr (29 November 1862 – 30 June 1934) was a German right-wing politician, active in the state of Bavaria. He was instrumental in the collapse and suppression of Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, and for those actions was murdered more than ten years later in the Night of the Long Knives.
Born in Weißenburg in Bayern, Kahr studied law and worked as a lawyer before entering politics. Politically, he was a monarchist and had links to the Catholic BVP, though he was a Protestant and never joined any party. In 1917, he became head of the provincial government of Upper Bavaria, but lost this post in the German Revolution of 1918.
After March 14, 1920, Kahr succeeded Johannes Hoffmann as Prime minister of Bavaria. Kahr came into office under military influences as a secondary result of the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of March 13 in Berlin. The most powerful party in Bavaria, the BVP, was then in a state of much anxiety as a result of the experiences of Bolshevism, chaos, and violence through which Munich had passed in the spring of 1919. The ministry presided over by the socialist Hoffmann had succeeded in quelling Bolshevism with the aid of Republican troops from Prussia and Württemberg, but the great majority of the BVP, as well as liberals of various shades, not to speak of the monarchists and reactionaries, wanted further guarantees against a recurrence of the Bolshevist terror.
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