Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund
The Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (English: German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation) was the largest, and most active anti-semitic federation in Germany after the First World War, and an organization forming a significant part of the "völkisch" movement during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), whose democratic-parliamentary system it unilaterally rejected. Its publishing arm issued books that greatly influenced the opinions of Nazi Party leaders such as Heinrich Himmler, and after the Bund folded ( 1924) many of its members eventually joined the Nazis. The Schutz- und Trutzbund used as its symbols a blue cornflower and  a swastika, and according to Peter Padfield its motto was ""Wir sind die Herren der Welt!"" ("We are the masters of the world!"). Not a single German source can be found which confirms this motto, which in fact is a verse from the song ""Der mächtigste König im Luftrevier"" (i.e. The mightiest king in the skies.) According to Ulrich Sieg the motto was "Deutschland den Deutschen" ("Germany for the Germans"). Origin. The "Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund" was originally called the "Deutscher Schutz- und Trutzbund" when it was founded in February 1919 in Bamberg for the purpose of "fighting" Judaism , during a meeting of the "Alldeutscher Verband" ("All-German League"). The director of "Deutschen Schutz- und Trutzbund" was Alfred Roth, and its secret chairman was , appointed on 1 October 1919 by . Their Advisory Board included, among others, Ernst Anton Franz von Bodelschwingh, Theodor Fritsch, August Gebhard, Paul Lucius, Ferdinand Werner, Julius Friedrich Lehmann, and Georg von Stössel. Their meeting place was originally in Duisburg, at Alfred Roth's house, but was later moved to Hamburg where it joined the amalgamation of several such other organizations. It merged with the "Reichshammerbund", and then, about one month later, merged with the "Deutschvölkischen  Bund", the organization that succeeded the "Deutschvölkische Party". Manifesto. The manifesto of the "Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund" was "Wenn ich der Kaiser wär" ("If I Were the Kaiser"), written by All-German League president Heinrich Claß, in which he expressed identitarian, nationalist views. His slogan was: "Germany for the Germans." Julius Friedrich Lehmann, a Munich publisher, helped promote their ideas, and in October 1918, Claß called for a coup d'etat. The organization agitated against the Weimar Republic; by 1923 it had just under 180,000 members. Constitution. An excerpt from the constitution of the "Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund"': "The Bund fights  for the moral rebirth of the German people ... It considers the pernicious and destructive influence of Jewry to be the main cause of the defeat and the removal of this influence to be necessary for the political and economic recovery of Germany, and for the salvation of German culture. "