Franz Matt
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Franz Matt (1860–1929) was the only member of the Bavarian State cabinet not present at the Beer Hall Putsch. At the time of the putsch, he was having dinner with Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munich and the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Eugenio Pacelli, the future pope Pius XII. When informed of the coup, he organized a government-in-exile at Regensburg and called on the police, military, and other public servants to support the government, which effectively doomed the prospects of the putschists.
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