They fought in north-west Germany, central Germany, Upper Silesia,[1] and Bavaria and participated in the unsuccessful Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920. After the failed Putsch, Ehrhardt fled Germany, returning at a later time. In Bavaria, which was ruled by Gustav von Kahr at that time,[2] he formed the Organisation Consul,[3] and later the Viking League (Bund Wiking), a secret military society.[4]