French occupation of Frankfurt
| French occupation of Frankfurt | |||||||
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| Part of the aftermath of World War I and Allied occupation of the Rhineland | |||||||
Tricolour flying over the Imperial Hotel, Opernplatz, in front of the Alte Oper, Frankfurt | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| France | Germany | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| 3rd Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment | German protesters | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 9 killed, 26 wounded | |||||||
French occupation of Frankfurt occurred from 6 April to 17 May 1920 as part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. The principal city occupied was Frankfurt, but the French also occupied Dieburg, Darmstadt, Hanau and Homburg. The occupation was in response to the mobilisation of armed forces by the government of Hermann Müller to suppress the Ruhr Uprising, an attempt by left-wing workers to take over political power in the Ruhr Area. It grew out of the widespread strike movement that defeated the Kapp Putsch.