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The Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (League of Frontline Soldiers) was one of the many paramilitary
Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a force whose function and organisation are similar to those of a professional military force, but which is not regarded as having the same status....
 organizations that arose after the defeat of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 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....
.

The Stahlhelm
Stahlhelm

Stahlhelm is German language for "steel helmet". The German Army began to replace the traditional leather Pickelhaube with the Stahlhelm during the World War I in 1916....
 was founded at the end of 1918 partly by Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte

Franz Seldte was a cofounder of the Germany paramilitary organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, a Nazi Party politician, and a Reich labour minister....
 in the city of Magdeburg
Magdeburg

Magdeburg , the Capital of the States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
. Its journal, Stahlhelm, was edited by Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal

Hans-J?rgen Graf von Blumenthal was a Germany aristocrat and Wehrmacht Officer in World War II who was Capital punishment by the Nazi Germany for his role in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler....
, later hanged for his part in the July 20 plot. The organization was a rallying point for nationalistic
Nationalism

Nationalism refers to an ideology, a feeling, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. While there is significant debate over the historical origins of nations, nearly all Expert accept that nationalism, at least as an ideology and social movement, is a Modernity phenomenon originating in Europe....
 and anti-Weimar elements.






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The Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (League of Frontline Soldiers) was one of the many paramilitary
Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a force whose function and organisation are similar to those of a professional military force, but which is not regarded as having the same status....
 organizations that arose after the defeat of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 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....
.

The Stahlhelm
Stahlhelm

Stahlhelm is German language for "steel helmet". The German Army began to replace the traditional leather Pickelhaube with the Stahlhelm during the World War I in 1916....
 was founded at the end of 1918 partly by Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte

Franz Seldte was a cofounder of the Germany paramilitary organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, a Nazi Party politician, and a Reich labour minister....
 in the city of Magdeburg
Magdeburg

Magdeburg , the Capital of the States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
. Its journal, Stahlhelm, was edited by Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal

Hans-J?rgen Graf von Blumenthal was a Germany aristocrat and Wehrmacht Officer in World War II who was Capital punishment by the Nazi Germany for his role in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler....
, later hanged for his part in the July 20 plot. The organization was a rallying point for nationalistic
Nationalism

Nationalism refers to an ideology, a feeling, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. While there is significant debate over the historical origins of nations, nearly all Expert accept that nationalism, at least as an ideology and social movement, is a Modernity phenomenon originating in Europe....
 and anti-Weimar elements. With 500,000 members in 1930, the Stahlhelm was the largest paramilitary organization of Weimar Germany.

In 1929 the Stahlhelm joined the Volksentscheid gegen den Young-Plan to demonstrate against the Young Plan
Young Plan

The Young Plan was a program for settlement of Germany World War I reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930....
. The Stahlhelm joined the DNVP, NSDAP and 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....
 to form the Harzburger Front, which was a united right-wing front against the Weimar Republic. In 1934 the Stahlhelm was renamed Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Frontkämpferbund (Federation of the National Socialist Frontline-Fighters) and integrated into the Sturmabteilung
Sturmabteilung

The , abbreviated SA, , functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party the Germany Nazism. They played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s....
 and, in 1935, it was dissolved by the Nazis, who feared its fundamentally monarchist character.

After 1945 and present time

In 1951 the Stahlhelm Bund der Frontsoldaten was re-created in Cologne
Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
. A year later, in 1952, even before his release from prison, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Albert Kesselring

Albert Kesselring was a Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Nicknamed "Smiling Albert", he was one of the most skilful generals of Nazi Germany....
 was elected federal as leader of the neonazi association, a post he kept till his death in 1960.

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 Veterans organization called the Tin Hats.

See also

  • Kyffhäuserbund
    Kyffhäuserbund

    The Kyffh?userbund is an umbrella organization for War Veterans' and Reservists' Associations in Germany. It owes its name to the Kyffh?user Monument , a memorial built on the summit of the 473 m high Kyffh?user Mountain near Bad Frankenhausen in the state of Thuringia in central Germany....
  • Queen Louise League
    Queen Louise League

    The "Queen Louise League" or K?nigin-Luise-Bund, often shortened to Luisenbund, was a Germany pro-monarchic women's organization. It was established in 1923 during the time of the Weimar Republic and lasted until the first years of the Third Reich....
  • Emanuel Schäfer
    Emanuel Schäfer

    Emanuel Sch?fer was an Schutzstaffel-Oberf?hrer and Reinhard Heydrich's protegee in Nazi Germany.Sch?fer was born in Hluc?n in the Province of Silesia....
     (member from 1925 to 1928)
  • Stahlhelm
    Stahlhelm

    Stahlhelm is German language for "steel helmet". The German Army began to replace the traditional leather Pickelhaube with the Stahlhelm during the World War I in 1916....
  • Weimar paramilitary groups
    Weimar paramilitary groups

    Paramilitary groups were formed throughout the Weimar Republic in the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I and the ensuing German Revolution....


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