Bund Reichskriegsflagge
The Bund Reichskriegsflagge or Verband Reichskriegsflagge was a paramilitary association founded by Ernst Röhm in 1923 .
The Bund Reichskriegsflagge emerged as a split from particularly radical parts of the politically somewhat more moderate Wehrverband Reichsflagge . In particular, the local groups of Memmingen, Schleissheim, Augsburg and Munich of the Reichsflagge federation joined forces to form the more aggressive Reichskriegsflagge after they had been excluded from it because of their rebellion against what they considered to be the lax political course of the Reichsflagge because of refusal to obey.
Initially, the former officer Joseph Seydel was officially the leader of the Reich War Flag , while Ernst Röhm, at that time still an officer in the Munich military district command , pulled the strings in the background . After Röhm left the Reichswehr in autumn 1923, he took over the management of the organization himself. After the formation of the so-called Kampfbund, an amalgamation of several right-wing military organizations (apart from the Reich War Flag , the Bund Oberland and the Sturmabteilung of the NSDAP were involved), the Reich War Flag and the other organizations of the Kampfbund were placed under the political leadership of Adolf Hitler on September 25, 1923 , while the military command was with Hermann Kriebel .
The Bund Reichskriegsflagge took part in the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of November 1923 and was banned by an order of the Bavarian government after its suppression. In 1925 it was briefly re-established, but shortly afterwards it was united with the Tannenbergbund .
Well-known people who were members of the Bund were, besides Röhm and Seydel, also Martin Faust , Gerhard von Prosch , Fritz von Kraußer and Heinrich Himmler .
literature
- Ernst Röhm : The story of a high traitor . Eher, Munich 1928. (Reprint of the 6th edition, Eher, Munich 1934: Facsimile-Verlag, Bremen 1982 ( historical facsimiles )).
- Harold J. Gordon : Hitler putsch 1923. Power struggle in Bavaria 1923–1924 . Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7637-5108-4 .
- Werner Maser : The early history of the NSDAP. Hitler's way until 1924 . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1965.
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Footnotes
- ↑ According to Heinrich Bennecke ( Die Memoiren des Ernst Röhm. A comparison of the various editions and editions . In: Politische Studien 14/1963, pp. 186-188), only the 1st and 2nd editions are of value for historical research, because all subsequent content has been edited (important details have been changed or omitted).