Rudolf Chancellor

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Rudolf Kanzler (born February 26, 1873 in Wasserburg am Inn , † February 26, 1956 ) was a German surveyor and politician . As a member of the Center , he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1905 to 1918 . In 1920 he was the founder of the Resident Defense Organization Chancellor (Orka).

Life

As the son of the royal lawyer IB Kanzler and his wife Crescenz Stechlin, he attended secondary school and the polytechnic in Munich. He qualified professionally as a geometer (surveying technician). As a member of the Center Party in 1905, he won the mandate in the Second Chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament for the constituency of Staffelstein . From 1912 to 1919 he was head of the surveying office in Rosenheim . Towards the end of 1918, the Chancellor in Bavaria organized the establishment of civil defense associations. At the "Grenzschutz Süd" and the "Freikorps Chiemgau" he held leading positions in the vigilante groups who wanted to resist revolutionary tendencies. In 1919, suggestions and requests to set up so-called self-protection amendments came from the Salzburg and Tyrolean regions. In Bavaria, Georg Escherich and Chancellor officially declared the decision to establish resident guardians in Munich on September 27, 1919.

Chancellor and Escherlich tried to get the official support of the Bavarian state government, which was promised by Prime Minister Gustav von Kahr , in building up the resident defense . The "Border Guard South" should provide the necessary development aid. These commitments resulted from negotiations that lasted in 1920 over the months of February and March.

On May 9, 1920, Escherich founded the Escherich (Orgesch) organization in Regensburg , which was recruited from members of the resident police. Escherich's deputy in the Orgesch became chancellor. Obviously there were various differences between Escherich and Chancellor. Because already on May 4, 1920, the Chancellor had founded the organization Kanzler (Orka) based in Rosenheim, which was later relocated to Munich. Chancellor gave up the leadership of the Orka in August 1921.

In 1923 Chancellor worked with Waldemar Pabst , where they dealt with the organization of Austrian military associations. Chancellor took over the board of directors of the Bavarian Homeland and Royal Association (BHKB) on January 11 of the same year in Rosenheim . In view of the impending takeover of power by the National Socialists, the BHKB tried, with the approval of the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht , to reintroduce the monarchy in Bavaria and thus to establish an independent Bavaria within a federal German Empire. The plan was supported by conservative politicians. So said Fritz Schaffer several times before in Berlin to talk to the President Paul von Hindenburg on the reintroduction of the monarchy in Bavaria. After the National Socialists seized power in the Reich, the SPD also supported the BHKB's plan as the last lifeline.

The " seizure of power " by the NSDAP in Bavaria on March 9, 1933 thwarted efforts. Chancellor and Enoch Freiherr zu Guttenberg resigned as chairmen on July 31, 1933. The BHKB was banned on February 2, 1934. When the Bavarian monarchists began to rally again in late 1949, the Chancellor was elected provisionally appointed President. However, he was rejected by the former Bavarian ruling family of the Wittelsbachers , so that August Desiderius Count Basselet de la Rosée took over his position.

Fonts

  • Bavaria's Fight Against Bolshevism - History of the Bavarian Resident Defense , Munich 1931

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Role of Rudolf Kanzler in founding the organization Kanzler
  2. ^ August D. Count Basselet de la Rosée , In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv. 10/1952 from February 25, 1952, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
personal data
SURNAME Chancellor, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surveyor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wasserburg am Inn
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1956