Bund Wiking
The Bund Wiking (also called Wikingbund ) was founded on May 2, 1923 in Munich by members of the banned Consul organization as a successor organization and military association . The federal government took part in the preparations for the overthrow of the Weimar government and carried out intensive military training. The young members were grouped together in the Jungwiking.
Numerous leaders from other organizations, such as Stahlhelms and Wehrwolf , were represented in the Bund Wiking , who in turn tried to keep these associations “on line”. For example, a member of the Wikingbund was the later National Socialist Reich health leader Leonardo Conti , who had founded the anti-Semitic Kampfbund Deutscher Volksbund as early as 1918 . The declared aim of the federal government was the establishment of a military dictatorship and the revision of the Versailles Treaty - also by military means. The aim was to stimulate the workforce to act through targeted provocation, which should then provide the pretext for a coup. When the preparations for a coup became known, the federal government was banned in Prussia and other countries in 1926 .
After the dissolution of the federal government at the end of April 1928, many members continued their activities in related organizations, such as the Stahlhelm or the SA .
Web links
- Christoph Hübner: Bund Wiking, 1923–1928 . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Bund_Wiking,_1923-1928
- ↑ Thomas Maibaum: The leadership school of the German medical profession Alt-Rehse . University of Hamburg, dissertation in the Department of Medicine, 2007, p. 242 ( online in the DNB archive ).