Gustav von Lossow
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Gustav von Lossow (1862-1934) was a German general who was military commander of Bavaria at the time of the Beer Hall Putsch on 8 November 1923. Lossow, the Bavarian Prime Minister, Gustav von Kahr, and the state police chief, Hans von Seisser, were addressing a meeting that was overrun by the Nazis.
He was later killed in the Night of the Long Knives, as one of Hitler's enemies.