• The Einwohnerwehr, or "Citizens' Defense," also called the Civil Guard or Civil Defense, was a far-right paramilitary in Weimar Germany that existed in...
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    from both the Left and the Right. There were also Citizens' Defense (Einwohnerwehr) groups to maintain public order and paramilitary groups associated...
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    profession he was a forester. In 1919 he became head of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr, anti-communist home guard groups set up by General Ludwig Maercker...
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    Himmler and his brother, Heinrich, left the Munich citizens' militia, the Einwohnerwehr, to join the 21st Rifle Brigade (Schützenbrigade 21) of the paramilitary...
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    units during armed action. Their weapons came from citizens' defence (Einwohnerwehr) groups and, after their first successful engagements, from defeated...
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    in 1920, resulting in the ill-fated Kapp Putsch in March 1920. The Einwohnerwehr, active in Germany from 1919 to 1921 was a paramilitary citizens' militia...
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    "Judaized" Weimar Republic. He also fostered the growth of the Civil Guard (Einwohnerwehr), which was similar to the Freikorps. Kahr resigned as minister president...
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    ISBN 978-3-486-58341-0. Koepp, Roy G. (2010). Conservative Radicals: The Einwohnerwehr, Bund Bayern Und Reich, and the Limits of Paramilitary Politics in Bavaria...
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    independent of the Bavarian state. The paramilitary Civil Guards, or Einwohnerwehr, was formed in an attempt to resolve the problems. Following the failure...
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    units during armed action. Their weapons came from citizens' defence (Einwohnerwehr) groups and, after their first successful engagements, from defeated...
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    and First Class. Immediately after the war, he was a leader of the Einwohnerwehr militia in his native North Württemberg. He joined the Nazi Party in...
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    that he "became a member and patron of the paramilitary group Coburg Einwohnerwehr, the Bund Wiking [de] and the veterans group Der Stahlhelm". The Bund...
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    able to disarm the paramilitary Bavarian Citizens' Defense groups (Einwohnerwehr), and Kahr, without their armed support, stepped down as Bavarian minister...
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  • member of the state leadership of the Bavarian Inhabitants' Defence (Einwohnerwehr), through which he was appointed editor of the magazine Heimatland (Homeland)...
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    supplied with arms by the 2nd army corps in Stettin. Paramilitias ("Einwohnerwehr") formed throughout the spring of 1919. Pommerscher Landbund units participated...
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    Allies in 1921, and Einwohnerwehr began to form various paramilitary groups. One of the primary successors of the Einwohnerwehr was the Bund Bayern und...
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  • chemistry at the University of Stuttgart whilst also serving with the Einwohnerwehr, a right-wing militia active in southern Germany. He subsequently took...
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  • other organized forces in Germany such as the Einwohnerwehr and the Sicherheitspolizei. The Einwohnerwehr alone appear to have numbered over 500,000 men...
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    November Revolution. He was instrumental in the creation of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr ("citizen's militia"), which served as civil defense units responsible...
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    sollte. Eine spontan gebildete Allianz aus Mitgliedern der Harburger Einwohnerwehr, Harburger Pionieren und einer großen Zahl bewaffneter Arbeiter stellte...
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  • Sweden politician. ESCHERICH, Georg (1870–1941) Leader of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr and the Organisation Escherich. ESSER, Hermann (1900–1981) Editor of...
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    supplied with arms by the 2nd army corps in Stettin. Paramilitias ("Einwohnerwehr") formed throughout the spring of 1919. Pommerscher Landbund units participated...
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    Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The German paramilitary group Einwohnerwehr (Citizens' Defense) was disbanded by the German government on the demands...
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