The man behind the elaborate assassination attempt was Johann Georg Elser, a carpenter-cabinet maker from Baden-Württemberg who had supported the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (German Communist Party; KPD), but also felt Hitler was leading the country to war.[64] After the beer hall closed, from August until the beginning of November, he worked carving out a concealed cavity in a section in a pillar.[65] By the time the bomb exploded, Elser was heading to the Swiss border.