The Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (German: "Steel Helmet, League of Frontline Soldiers") was one of the many paramilitary Freikorps organizations that arose after the defeat of World War I in the Weimar Republic. Jump to: navigation, search A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ... Jump to: navigation, search The designation of Freikorps (German for Free Corps) was originally applied to voluntary armies. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War... Jump to: navigation, search The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (IPA , German Weimarer Republik). ...

The Stahlhelm was founded at the end of 1918 partly by Franz Seldte in the city of Magdeburg. Its journal, Stahlhelm, was edited by Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, later hanged for his part in the July Plot. The organization was an accumulation point for nationalistic and anti-Weimar elements. With 500,000 members in 1930, the Stahlhelm was the largest Freikorps organization. Jump to: navigation, search 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe river. ... Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (February 23, 1907 - October 13, 1944) was a German aristocrat and Army officer in World War II who was executed by the Nazi regime for his role in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... The July 20 Plot was a failed coup détat which involved an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and... Jump to: navigation, search 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search The designation of Freikorps (German for Free Corps) was originally applied to voluntary armies. ...

In 1929 the Stahlhelm joined the Volksentscheid gegen den Young-Plan to demonstrate against the Young Plan. The Stahlhelm joined the DNVP, NSDAP and Alldeutscher Verband to form the Harzburger Front, which was a united right-wing front against the Weimar Republic. Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Young Plan was a program for settlement of German reparations debts after World War I. It was presented by the committee headed (1929-30) by Owen D. Young. ... The German National Peoples Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei) (DNVP) was a right wing national-conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... We dont have an article called Harzburger Front Start this article Search for Harzburger Front in. ...

The Stahlhelm was integrated into the Sturmabteilung in 1934 and in 1935 was dissolved by the Nazis, who feared its fundamentally monarchist character. Jump to: navigation, search The seal of SA The Sturmabteilung [▶](audio help) (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

See also

• Weimar paramilitary groups

Jump to: navigation, search Paramilitary groups were formed throughout the Weimar Republic in the wake of Germanys defeat in World War I and the ensuing German Revolution. ...

External link

• DHM Museum Page (German)