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The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund was the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the first World War, and one of the largest and most important representatives of the German Confederation
German Confederation

The German Confederation was the association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to serve as the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, which had been abolished in 1806....
 in the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
, whose democratic-parliamentary system it unilaterally rejected.

Origin
The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund was originally called the Deutschen Schutz und Trutzbund, when it was founded in Februrary of 1919.






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The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund was the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the first World War, and one of the largest and most important representatives of the German Confederation
German Confederation

The German Confederation was the association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to serve as the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, which had been abolished in 1806....
 in the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
, whose democratic-parliamentary system it unilaterally rejected.

Origin


The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund was originally called the Deutschen Schutz und Trutzbund, when it was founded in Februrary of 1919. The organization was an offshoot of the Alldeutscher Verband
Alldeutscher Verband

Alldeutscher Verband was a Germany far-right organization which promoted pangermanism and imperialism, created in 1891 in protest to the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of Heligoland for Zanzibar....
, and created during a meeting in Bamberger
Bamberger

Bamberger as a surname may refer to:* ?rmin V?mb?ry , Hungarian orientalist* Cyril Stanley Bamberger , Battle of Britain Pilot* Eugen Bamberger , German chemist...
 with the purpose of "fighting" Judaism
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
. The director of this group was Alfred Roth, and its secret chairman was Konstantin von Gebsattel, appointed on October 1st, 1919, by Ernst von Hertzberg Lottin. Their Advisory Board included, among others, Ernst Anton Franz von Bodelschwingh, August Gebhard, Paul Lucius, Ferdinand Werner, Julius Friedrich Lehmann, and Georg von Stössel. Their meeting place was originally in Duisburg
Duisburg

Duisburg is a Germany city in the western part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an independent metropolitan borough within D?sseldorf ....
, at Alfred Roth's house, but was later moved to Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
 where it joined the amalgamation of several such other orginizations. It merged with the Reichshammerbund, and then, about one month later, merged with the Deutschvölkischen Bund, the organization that succeeded the Deutschvölkische Party.

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Mainfesto

The manifesto represantive of The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund was Wenn ich der Kaiser wär, written by Heinrich Claß, in which he expressed racist, nationalist views. His slogan was: "Germany for the Germans." Julius Friedrich Lehmann, a Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
 publisher, helped promote their ideas, and in October 1918, Claß called for a coup d'etat
Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
. The organization agitated against the Weimar Republic; by 1923 it had just under 800,000 members.

Constitution
An excerpt from The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund's constitution follows thusly:

The Bund fights for the moral rebirth of the German people . . . It considers the pernicious and destructive influence of Jewry to be the main cause of the defeat and the removal of this influence to be necessary for the political and economic recovery of Germany, and for the salvation of German culture.


Notable Members

Notable members of The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund include:
  • Reinhard Heydrich
    Reinhard Heydrich

    Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was an Schutzstaffel-Obergruppenf?hrer und General der Polizei, chief of the RSHA and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia....
    , co-architect of the holocaust
  • Julius Streicher
    Julius Streicher

    Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazism prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der St?rmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine....
     
  • and Dietrich Eckart
    Dietrich Eckart

    Dietrich Eckart was a German politician, one of the important early members of the National Socialist German Workers Party and a participant of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch....


Additional Sources


  • Roth, Alfred. Aus der Kampfzeit des Deutschvölkischen Schutz-und-Trutzbundes. Hamburg, 1939
  • Waite, Robert G L. Vanguard of Nazism. 1969, W W Norton and Company


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