Auergarde

The Auergarde was a social democratic assembly protection organization in Bavaria .

In 1919, the Bavarian MSPD chairman, Erhard Auer, founded the Auergarde, named after him, after the assassination attempt on Kurt Eisner and himself. Franz Xaver Pitzer headed the group, which was initially loosely organized. After another assassination attempt on Auer and the murder of Walter Rathenau in 1922, the guard was converted into a security department (SA). Wilhelm Buisson became the “military director”

The only lightly armed units of the Auergarde tried to help the police against right-wing violence, but this was strictly rejected by the Bavarian government. The Auergarde had about 2,000 men in Munich , further departments existed in Freising , Ingolstadt and Rosenheim .

On February 22nd, 1924, the Auergarde was incorporated into the " Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold ", which was founded throughout the Reich , since State Commissioner General Gustav von Kahr had already banned all left-wing self-protection organizations on September 26th, 1923.

literature

Günther Gerstenberg: Freedom! Social democratic self-protection in Munich in the twenties and early thirties . Volume I and II, Munich 1997.

Web links

• Robert Hofmann: Auergarde . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria