Editing Beer Hall Putsch (section)

=== Counterattack ===  
Police units were first notified of trouble by three police detectives stationed at the ''Löwenbräukeller''. These reports reached Major [[Sigmund von Imhoff]] of the state police. He immediately called all his ''[[Grüne Polizei]]'' units and had them seize the central telegraph office and the telephone exchange, although his most important act was to notify [[Jakob Ritter von Danner|Major-General Jakob von Danner]], the ''[[Reichswehr]]'' city commandant of Munich. As a proud war hero, Danner loathed the "little corporal" and those "''[[Freikorps]]'' bands of rowdies". He also did not much like his commanding officer, Generalleutnant [[Otto von Lossow]], "a sorry figure of a man". He was determined to put down the putsch with or without Lossow. Danner set up a command post at the 19th Infantry Regiment barracks and alerted all military units.{{sfn|Bear|2016|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wSMzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 PT22]}}

Meanwhile, Captain Karl Wild, learning of the putsch from marchers, mobilised his command to guard Kahr's government building, the ''Commissariat'', with orders to shoot.{{sfn|Bear|2016|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wSMzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 PT22]}}

Around 23:00, Major-General von Danner, along with fellow generals {{ill|Adolf Ritter von Ruith|de|Adolf von Ruith}} and [[Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein]], compelled Lossow to repudiate the putsch.{{sfn|Bear|2016|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wSMzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 PT22]}}

There was one member of the [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]] who was not at the Bürgerbräukeller: [[Franz Matt]], the vice-premier and minister of education and culture. A staunchly conservative [[Roman Catholic]], he was having dinner with the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising|Archbishop of Munich]], Cardinal [[Michael von Faulhaber]], and with the [[Apostolic Nunciature to Bavaria|Nuncio to Bavaria]], Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (who would later become [[Pope Pius XII]]), when he learned of the putsch. He immediately telephoned Kahr. When he found the man vacillating and unsure, Matt made plans to set up a rump government-in-exile in [[Regensburg]] and composed a proclamation calling upon all police officers, members of the armed forces, and civil servants to remain loyal to the government. The action of these few men spelt doom for those attempting the putsch.{{sfn|Bear|2016|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wSMzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 PT22]}} The next day the archbishop and Rupprecht<!--who?--> visited Kahr and persuaded him to repudiate Hitler.<ref name="irvine193111">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/improvementera3501unse#page/n13/mode/2up | title=Adolf Hitler / The Man and His Ideas | work=The Improvement Era | date=November 1931 | access-date=13 November 2014 | author=Irvine, Wendell C. | page=13}}</ref>

Three thousand students from the University of Munich rioted and marched to the ''[[Feldherrnhalle]]'' to lay wreaths. They continued to riot until 9 November, when they learned of Hitler's arrest. Kahr and Lossow were called [[Judas Iscariot|Judases]] and traitors.{{sfn|Bear|2016|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wSMzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 PT22]}}