Georg Neithardt

[2] In February and March 1924, Neithardt presided over the trial of Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff, and eight additional leaders of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.

He also presided over the trial of Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley.

[2] In September 1921, Hitler was arrested after he and members of his SA paramilitary faction disrupted a Bayernbund meeting hosting the federalist Ballerstedt.

[3] Sympathetic to far-right politics in Germany, Neithardt presided over the Beer Hall Putsch trial, which lasted from 26 February to 1 April 1924.

"[2] Hitler used the trial to propagandize against democracy in Germany and argued that his attempted coup-d'etat could not have been treason, if its aim was to negate the treason of Germany's armistice signed in 1918.