Adler und Falke

The eagles and falcons, German youth hikers eV were a migrant bird movement of related, ethnic embossed Youth League, which was founded in 1920 by Wilhelm Kotzde - Kottenrodt and had 3,000 members in 1921 in the German Empire, Austria and Bohemia. After conflicts over national leadership in 1929 split from the similar content-oriented German Falk shaft. The two co-ed leagues in 1933 had all members under the age of 18 be converted into the Hitler Youth and broke up soon after themselves.

Objectives

The aim of the eagles and hawks was the " renewal of the German people " on the basis of German culture and the prevention " of alien influences " on the members. In league boys and girls were together, as its aim " folkish -minded family " should be achieved through education.

To achieve the cultural education of the members, the eagles and hawks adopted many elements of youth music movement in their work. Amateur theater groups should bring close to the world of ideas of the Federation also outsiders. Of the eagles and hawks and the German Falk shaft guided publishers published numerous pamphlets on the ideas of the frets and their related artists.

History

Kotzde - Kottenrodt that before the First World War had contact with the migrant bird movement and in the autumn of 1919 witnessed the decline of migratory birds eV to the Bundestag in Coburg, founded on 29 February 1920 and with the support of the German Federal the first group of eagles and hawks in Kirchzarten. Through strong advertising especially in the German federal government to the federal government about 3000 members joined up to the summer of 1921, although it except an office and two members journals were no federal structures up to this point. The lack of common structures and ideas introduced in the summer of 1921 on the first Bundestag in stone pot on substantive arguments, some groups left the federal government again, while the remaining groups agreed on a joint program and simultaneously demarcated by the German federal government.

In the following years, stabilized the federal government, which was still significantly influenced by Kotzde - Kottenrodt. Under Kotzde - Kottenrodts guide the eagles and hawks were involved in the 1924 founding of the Artamanen, 1925, he initiated an alliance with the guided by Gerhard Rossbach Schill youth. This collaboration was the beginning of 1926, the nationalist weekly magazine The coming forth.

The 1927 introduced generational change in the national leadership led, reinforced by a prolonged illness Kotzde - Kottenrodts and by economic difficulties of the Federation affiliated publishers to violent conflicts between Kotzde - Kottenrodt and the mostly younger leaders who are only in 1928 solved by his resignation as federal leader could. Together with Kotzde - Kottenrodt left in 1929 some groups, notably from Thuringia, eagles and falcons and founded under the auspices Kotzde - Kottenrodts German Falk shaft.

The German Falk shaft quickly grew to 1,000 members, about the same time reached the eagles and hawks with 3500 members in 250 local chapters its greatest extent. Between the two frets was agreement on their ethnic orientation, only two points, there were significant differences: They concerned the position Kotzde - Kottenrodts and the degree of political commitment. While the German Falk shaft refused to cooperate their members in political parties and strove for a renewal of Germanness through in-depth cultural work, the eagles and hawks in favor of the involvement in political parties.

Both confederations were trying to reach a concentration of ethnically marked hiking bird frets in the following years without success. The merger of German Falk shaft, migratory bird, German Confederation, Austrian migrant bird houses and Black ring for migratory birds, alliance of grasping and hawks in the summer of 1930 had only a short time. Still in the early summer of 1933, negotiated both societies in response to the prohibition of the Greater German Federal Kronacher with the Federation of migratory birds, the wanderer German Confederation and the Austrian migrant bird on a merger, but could not reach agreement on a common name.

A few weeks later the eagles and hawks and the German Falk shaft transferred all members under the age of 18 into the Hitler Youth. The only existing of some older members of German Falk shaft broke up in the summer of 1934 on, the eagles and falcons on 1 March 1936.

Known members

  • Wilhelm Engel ( historian )
  • Wilhelm Kotzde - Kottenrodt ( writer )
  • Karl Laforce ( party to the Hitler putsch )
  • Johann von Leers ( university professor, Nazi publicist)
  • Theodor Oberlander ( politician)
  • Horst Rechbach
  • Friedrich Schmidt ( politician)
  • Lothar Stengel - Rutkowski of ( Nazi racial theorists )
  • Matthes Ziegler ( theologian )
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