Franz Ritter von Epp Biography and Timeline

Birth of son

Franz Ritter von Epp is born under the name of Franz Epp, being the son of the painter Rudolph Epp and Katharina Streibel

Freikorps

After the end of the war he forms the Freikorps Epp, a right-wing, paramilitary formation mostly made up of war veterans, of which future leader of the SA Ernst Roehm, was a member

Election

Epp becomes a member of the German Parliament, the Reichstag, for the NSDAP after leaving the BVP

Voelkischer Beobachter

When it became necessary for the NSDAP to purchase a newspaper to publicize its political creed, Epp made available some 60,000 Reichsmarks from secret army funds to acquire the Voelkischer Beobachter

Constitution of Germany

On the orders of Hitler and Wilhelm Frick abolishes the Government of Bavaria and sets up a Nazi regime

Role range: 1933-1945

Rule of Bavaria

On the orders of Hitler and Wilhelm Frick abolishes the Government of Bavaria and sets up a Nazi regime

Role range: 1933-1945

Coup

Under Hitler's orders von Epp sets up a Nazi regime in Bavaria

Role range: 1933-1945

Coup

Under Hitler's orders von Epp sets up a Nazi regime in Bavaria

Reichskommissar

Becomes Reichskommissar, later Reichsstatthalter, for Bavaria

Role range: 1933-1945

Arrest of Franz Ritter von Epp

Imprisoned by the Americans and die in a prison camp in 1946

Role range: 1939-1956