Blucherbund

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The Blücherbund was a right-wing , paramilitary association in Bavaria in the 1920s. Its name is derived from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher .

The organization was founded on September 23, 1922 as a spin-off of the federal Oberland from its former chairman Friedrich Knauf . In January 1923, the chairmanship of the new Bund (headquartered in Munich), which was also in competition with the National Socialists, passed to Rudolf Schäfer , who made Arnold Ruge the chief ideologist of the Bund, which gave the Bund a strong folk influence. The Frankfurt local group is said to have planned to blow up a synagogue visited by believers with hand grenades. At the same time, the Blücherbund received extensive funding from an initially unknown source. They should serve to finance an overthrow in Bavaria aimed at breaking away from the German Reich . The conspiracy was uncovered by Karl Mayr and Ernst Röhm on February 28, 1923.

At the trial before the Munich People's Court in June / July 1923, chaired by Georg Neithardt, against the main conspirators, the two editors Georg Fuchs and Hugo Machhaus , the source of the financial resources could be exposed. It was the French Colonel Augustin Xavier Richert . The participation of Bavarian authorities, however, was covered up. The Consul organization ultimately benefited from the extensive financial resources. When a presumed collaboration with the " hereditary enemy " became known during the occupation of the Ruhr , the federal government quickly lost its political importance.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: "" Traitors fall for the distance! " Fememorde in Bavaria in the twenties ", Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, p. 126.
  2. ↑ Lothar Gruchmann , Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940: Adaptation and submission in the Gürtner era , 3rd edition, Munich 2001, p. 37.
  3. ↑ Susanne Meinl, Dieter Krüger : Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz , From Freikorpskämpfer to head of the intelligence service in the Federal Chancellery. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 42, issue 1, January 1994, p. 41 fn. 10 ( PDF ).

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