The rider to the east
The rider to the east was an illustrated German Free Corps - magazine . The magazine was published monthly from 1929 to 1944 as the "Mitteilungsblatt des Bundes Schlageter eV, Comradeship Association of Former Baltic Citizens, Freikorps, Border Guard, Self-Protection and Ruhr Fighters, as well as Rhine and Ruhr Prisoners."
The editor was the former Freikorps member Heinz Oskar Hauenstein . At the time of Albert Leo Schlageter's arrest in 1923, Hauenstein had headed the "Organization Heinz" to which Schlageter belonged. The magazine was devoted to the glorification of the volunteer corps and their deeds. During the Nazi era , Ernst von Salomon was editor from 1933 to 1934. The “ Bund der Freunde Schlageters ” founded by Hauenstein was close to the NSDAP . In 1934, after the so-called “ Röhm Putsch ” and the associated action by the National Socialist regime against representatives of former Freikorps , the Bund came into conflict with the party and was dissolved the following year. The rider to the east appeared after the dissolution until 1944.
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- ↑ Subtitle according to the Federal Archives ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ This assessment by Stefan Zwicker: "National Martyrs": Albert Leo Schlageter and Julius Fučík. Hero cult, propaganda and culture of remembrance. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-72936-1 , p. 117.
