Adolf Heiss

Adolf Heiss (born March 16, 1882 in Schwaiganger near Murnau , Upper Bavaria ; † January 1945 near Obornik , Posen Province ) was a German officer and founder and leader of the Reichsflagge military association .

Adolf Heiss joined a Bavarian infantry regiment in 1903 . In 1905 he was promoted to lieutenant . From 1914 onwards he participated in the First World War . In 1916 he became a captain . After the war ended in 1918 hot commander was a border guard - battalion . In 1919 Hauptmann Heiss was accepted into the Reichswehr . In the early summer of 1919, a "Heimatschutzbataillon Heiß" was set up at his garrison in Nuremberg , which had been used on March 17, 1920 against demonstrating workers in Nuremberg ( Kapp Putsch ). On October 11, 1920, he had the Bund Reichsflagge registered in Nuremberg in the register of associations and organized the military association tightly. In 1923 he was retired as a Reichswehr officer. At the Hitler putsch of the 8th / 9th November 1923 the Reich flag was not involved. On October 7, 1923, the northern Bavarian federations of the Federal Reichsflagge separated from the Kampfbund under Hauptmann Heiss, and only the southern Bavarian under Captain Röhm remained. Because of his "falling over" in 1923, hot was fought in the right-wing extremist press. In 1927 he incorporated the Reichsflagge into the steel helmet . In 1932, he was reactivated as a major in the Reichswehr. In the following period of National Socialism , he was no longer politically important. After the beginning of the war in 1939 he held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Wehrmacht and from 1942 the rank of colonel . Since January 1945, Adolf Heiss has been missing from Oborniki ( province of Posen ).

Web links

Christoph Hübner: Reichsflagge, 1919–1927 . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Federal Archives: Heiss, Adolf . In: Reich Chancellery files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Nußer: Conservative military associations in Bavaria, Prussia and Austria 1918–33. With a biography of the Forestry Councilor Georg Escherich 1870–1941. 2nd Edition. Nusser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88091-249-1 , p. 130.
^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 53 and 61.

personal data
SURNAME	Hot, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and leader of the Reichsflagge military association
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwaiganger near Murnau am Staffelsee , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	January 1945
Place of death	near Obornik , Province of Poznan

[1] Horst Nußer: Conservative military associations in Bavaria, Prussia and Austria 1918–33. With a biography of the Forestry Councilor Georg Escherich 1870–1941. 2nd Edition. Nusser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88091-249-1 , p. 130.

[2] Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 53 and 61.