Marinebrigade Ehrhardt
The denunciations of the conservative and national liberal press went beyond the ordinary limits of party polemics: the "Tägliche Rundschau" observed, in allusion to Erzberger's personal appearance, “he may be as round as a bullet, but he is not bullet-proof.” The climax of these attacks was that Erzberger was murdered on 26 August 1921 in Bad Griesbach, a spa in the Black Forest (Baden) while he was out for a walk. Due to his signing the armistice of 1918, Erzberger was regarded as a traitor by many on the political right. Manfred von Killinger, a leading member of the Germanenorden, masterminded his killing by recruiting two members of the ultra-nationalist death squad Organisation Consul: Heinrich Tillessen and Heinrich Schulz. Both were former navy officers and members of the disbanded "Marinebrigade Ehrhardt". Erzberger's assassins were later smuggled into Hungary and were prosecuted only after World War II.