ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Leagues later relationship to Stresemann. The poor planning, execution, and ultimate failure of the Kapp Putsch dealt the first serious blow to the Pan-German Leagues plans for greater coordination of the radical Right in the immediate post-war period. Heinrich Cla and Erich Ludendorff had already met on several occasions during World War I, and the Pan-German Leagues contact with the German General Staff had been fairly regular during the fall of 1917. The League had dedicated itself to leading a united radical nationalist movement against the fledgling Weimar Republic. According to Freytagh-Loringhoven, the League's worst fears had been confirmed by a recent speech by Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei (DVFP) leader Wilhelm Henning in Halle. The chapter demonstrates, almost all of the Pan-German Leagues subsequent decisions and political commitments were shaped by the deep divisions that developed in the vlkisch movement in the first post-war years.
