 On the orders of Hitler and Wilhelm Frick, he abolished the Government of Bavaria and set up a Nazi regime.He became "Reichskommissar", later "Reichsstatthalter", for Bavaria in 1933, in this position clashing with Bavaria's Nazi prime minister Ludwig Siebert, with Siebert eventually succeeding Epp.On 8 May 1933, von Epp's "DO X" crashed at the Passau Kachlet.