Bavarian police

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The Bavarian police were the regional law enforcement authority of Bavaria in early 20th-century Germany, known for suppressing Adolf Hitler’s 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.


Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf law enforcement agency
regional police force
appliesToJurisdiction Free State of Bavaria
Kingdom of Bavaria
areaServed Bavarian cities
Bavarian rural districts
conflictWith Adolf Hitler
NSDAP paramilitaries
cooperatedWith Reichswehr
country Germany
dateOfEvent 8–9 November 1923
governedBy Bavarian state government
hasDuty crime prevention in Bavaria
criminal investigation in Bavaria
crowd control in Bavaria
maintaining public order in Bavaria
political security in Bavaria
headquartersLocation Munich
historicalEra interwar period
historicalStatus predecessor of modern Bavarian State Police
languageOfWork German
legalBasis Bavarian state law
location Bavaria
Munich
notableEvent Beer Hall Putsch
notableFor maintaining regional autonomy in policing within Germany
resisting early Nazi coup attempt in Munich
operatedInPoliticalContext Weimar Republic federal system
monarchy of Bavaria
opposedIdeology violent putschism
oversightBy Bavarian Ministry of the Interior
partOf Bavarian state administration
resultOfAction arrest of Adolf Hitler after Beer Hall Putsch
failure of Beer Hall Putsch
roleInEvent suppressed Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
significance key regional actor in early Nazi-era politics in Bavaria
subdivision Munich city police
rural gendarmerie units
timePeriod Weimar Republic era
early 20th century
typeOfOrganization criminal police
uniformed police
usedEquipment small arms typical of early 20th-century European police
usedForce armed response against Beer Hall Putsch participants
wore distinctive Bavarian police uniforms

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Hans von Seisser ("Bavarian State Police")
Joseph Ratzinger Sr. ("Bavarian state police")
employer
Beer Hall Putsch
opposedBy

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