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Hermann Ehrhardt (
29 November 1881 –
27 September 1971) was a
German Freikorps commander during the period of turmoil in
Weimar Republic Germany from 1918 to 1920, he commanded the famous II.Marine Brigade, better known as the Ehrhardt Brigade or
Marinebrigade Ehrhardt.
Born in Diersburg, now part of
Hohberg, he later joined the
German Imperial Navy and served as a
Korvettenkapitän. A strong opponent of the
Treaty of Versailles, he developed extreme right wing views. During the period after the defeat of the
German Empire, Ehrhardt formed the II.Marine Brigade.
Holding the rank of Korvettenkapitän, his army equivalent rank was only that of a
major, yet he still commanded a force of around 6,000 men. His force fought in north-west Germany, central Germany,
Silesia, and
Bavaria and participated in the unsuccessful
Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920, afterwards he fled Germany, but later returned. In Bavaria, along with
Gustav von Kahr, he formed the
Viking League, an auxiliary Police force.
During the
Beer Hall Putsch, Ehrhardt and his deputy commander
Eberhard Kautter refused to have the league help
Adolf Hitler's
Nazi Party. Ehrhardt would later unsuccessfully contest the leadership of the right wing factions with Hitler, but unlike their commander, most of Ehrhardt's men joined the Nazi Party.
Ehrhardt was one of those listed to die during the
Night of the Long Knives but he managed to escape to
Austria. He died in 1971 in
Krems an der Donau.
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