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were currently refused. On the morning of
December 24, 1918, the castle and stables were opened fire upon by the troops of Lequis with military equipment. However, due to the support of the civilian population that had flocked to the area, the troops had to withdraw again. After Lequis gave a thoughtless newspaper interview after the crisis was settled, he was replaced by General
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Marstall in Berlin at Christmas 1918. Lequis was entrusted with the Guards Cavalry Rifle Division to secure the government district. The sailors of the Volksmarinedivision intended to make the agreed handover of the castle to the government dependent on the payment of their wages, which
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and promoted to an officer. On June 23, 1919, he was taken over by the
Provisional Reichswehr as leader of Reichswehr Brigade 8 in Upper Silesia and put in charge of border protection. After the
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as a company commander in the East Asian
Engineer Battalion. In 1904, he was on the general staff of the Legen Command in the colony of
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with his division and was promoted to lieutenant general in July. He was then made governor of
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