Central Association of German War Disabled and Warrior Survivors

The Central Association of German War Victims and Survivors of War was a national conservative association of war victims. It was founded in September 1919.

It emerged from several smaller warring associations and the Essen Association , which existed from 1917 to 1919.

The Central Association of German War Victims and War Survivors in the Weimar Republic had more than 150,000 members .

The Central Association published the journals Der Kriegteilnehmer and the Kriegerhinterbliebenen-Zeitung as well as the yearbook of the Central Association of German War Disabled and Warrior Survivors .

The Central Association of German War Victims and Warrior Survivors belonged to the Reich Association of German War Victims after 1934 . The Reich Association comprised the war disabled organizations, which had not dissolved after 1933.

See also

• War invalids
• German war invalids in the 20th century
• Hanns Ruckdäschel

literature

• Ursula Büttner : Weimar. The overwhelmed Republic 1918 - 1933 , Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-94308-5 .
• Wolfgang Fischer: The political commemoration of the dead of the First World War: The day of national mourning in the Weimar Republic , GRIN Verlag , Norderstedt near Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-638-89043-4 .
• Iris Groschek: Where is the thanks from the fatherland? - On the situation of those seriously injured in the First World War with special consideration of Hamburg , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Central Association of German War Disabled and War survivors: On the will and action of the Central Association of German War Disabled and War survivors (eV) , Berlin 1920.

Web links

• Claims of war invalids , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Publications of the Central Association of German War Disabled and War survivors , accessed on February 23, 2017.