Bavarian Homeland Security (Wehrverband)
Bavarian Heimatschutz was the name of a military association under the leadership of Georg Escherich (1870-1941), which was founded on December 2, 1928 in Ebersberg . It was dissolved after the National Socialists came to power . It should not be confused with the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Security, founded in 1902 .
aims
The Bavarian Homeland Security was founded by Georg Escherich , who was already the organizer of the resident police in Bavaria in 1920/21 . The Bavarian Homeland Security saw itself in competition with the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten and wanted to gather political rights in Bavaria behind them. He represented Bavarian federalist, anti-communist and anti-centralist goals. Grouped around the core of the old Chiemgau , Isengau and Isarwinkel- Mangfallgau resident military, the German Front Fighters 'Association , the Upper Bavarian Christian Farmers' Association and the Bavarian Homeland and King's Association came together under the umbrella of the Bavarian Homeland Security until 1930 . The up to 50,000 members came mainly from the rural areas of Old Bavaria , especially from Upper Bavaria . The Bavarian Homeland Security was friendly towards the Wittelsbach house and also sought contact with church circles. After the National Socialists came to power, the federal government dissolved on March 28, 1933 under pressure from the SA special commissioner Ernst Röhm , when the majority of its members joined the SA , the SS and the Stahlhelm .
Web links
- Wolfgang Stäbler: Bayerischer Heimatschutz, 1928–1933 , published on May 11, 2006, in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns , accessed on June 27, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rubner: Georg Escherich. In: Rubner: Hundreds of important forest people in Bavaria (1875 to 1970). 1994, pp. 93-96, here p. 96.