Gerhard rossbach biography wikipedia

During the Baltic fighting of , his Freikorps made an extremely long march from Berlin across Eastern Europe to rescue the Iron Division another Freikorps from destruction by the Latvian Army. Money came from the Landbund, Heavy Industry, and arms dealing. In the early s, he was arrested for trying to overthrow the government. He took part in the Beer Hall putsch of , mobilising students, cadets and officer candidates of the Reichswehr, and then fled to Austria after the putsch failed.

Night of the long knives

By , he could claim to have killed "a number of Mecklenburg laborers and Spartacist sympathizers". He later fell out with Hitler during his rise to power and was arrested but not killed during the Roehm Purge in Historian Robert G. He took a special interest in developing its membership. In his last years he took a prominent part in organising the Bayreuth festivals of Richard Wagner"s music.

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