Frontbann

The Frontbann was a collecting organization for various banned after the failed Beer Hall Putsch, extreme right-wing para-military formations in the Weimar Republic. It was founded by Ernst Röhm in May 1924. In September of that year he is said to have already has 30,000 members.

Organizational center of the front banns was the High Command in Munich, where initially Rohm and from May 1925 Wolf- Heinrich von Helldorf headed the organization. In fact, the member organizations have frequently remained independent. Collaborating organizations included, among others Altreichsflagge, imperial eagle, Deutschvölkischer officer covenant Education Association Luitpoldhain, Völkischer military ring Nuremberg, Frontkämpferbund East Prussia, the youth organization of the National Socialist Freedom Party and parts of the Sturmabteilung, the Freikorps Oberland, the Freikorps Rossbach and the weir wolf.

Focus of the activities of the front banns was the military training of its members; was to transfer military virtues was more important than training on the weapon. The founding manifesto of the Front ban cited the purpose of the organization "the preservation of military thought" and the "internal cleansing of Germany" by " criminals and traitors ". During the election campaign for the presidential election 1925 Frontbann Erich Ludendorff supported.

The end of 1924, a process was initiated because of secret societies against the line of the front bans in Bavaria, which was discontinued in September 1925 because of an amnesty. However, the process meant that the groups and district commands of the front banns were separated from the Munich headquarters.

After the founding of the Nazi Party in February 1925, the Association began rapidly to disintegrate again. The bulk of the members streamed back to the Nazi Party and SA. Residues also went to the Tannenberg covenant.