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Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten

Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (German: 'The Steel Helmet, League of Front-Line Soldiers'), commonly known as Der Stahlhelm ('The Steel Helmet'), was a German First World War veteran's organisation existing from 1918 to 1935. In the late days of the Weimar Republic, it was closely affiliated to the monarchist German National People's Party (DNVP), placed at party gatherings in the position of armed security guards (Saalschutz).[2]

"Der Stahlhelm" redirects here. For the steel helmet, see Stahlhelm.

Named after

Stahlhelm

Sturmabteilung

25 December 1918 (1918-12-25)

Franz Seldte[1]

Magdeburg

7 November 1935 (1935-11-07)
(as Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher frontkämpfer-Bund (Stahlhelm))

Ex-servicemen's organization

Maintain peace and order and foster comradeship founded in the field.

Berlin

End of World War I and the German Revolution of 1918

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
Nazi Germany (1933–1935)

1,500,000 (1933 est.)

Franz Seldte

Theodor Duesterberg

August von Mackensen

  • Der Stahlhelm
  • Die Standarte

  • Jungstahlhelm
  • Ringstahlhelm
  • Scharnhorst
  • Stahlhelm-Landsturm

Deutschnationale Volkspartei

Weimar paramilitary groups

Tauber, Kurt (1967). : German Nationalism Since 1945. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.

Beyond Eagle and Swastika

Davis, Brian Leigh (1980). German Uniforms of the Third Reich 1933-1945 (1st ed.). Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press.  0-7137-0881-6.

ISBN

(in German) at the German Historical Museum, Berlin

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