death_date death_place religion birth_place nationality party name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name
26 february 1956 munich roman catholic church wasserburg am inn german centre party rudolf kanzler 26 february 1873 freikorps leader rudolf kanzler
 rudolf kanzler
rudolf kanzler

rudolf kanzler -lrb- born 26 february 1873 in wasserburg am inn - died 26 february 1956 in munich -rrb- was a german surveyor and politician who was involved in the organisation of freikorps units after world war i .
a roman catholic , kanzler was thus a member of the centre party and served this party in the landtag of bavaria as representative for lichtenfels from 1905 to 1918 .
noted for his anti-communism he organised a `` bürgerwehr '' or militia against the communists in rosenheim in 1919 .
this group grew into the `` freikorps chiemgau '' , for a time the largest single freikorps in germany , under the command of kanzler who became known as the ` white general ' .
kanzler became an ally of the rightist militant georg escherich and soon led his own organisation kanzler or ` orka ' in imitaton of escherich 's orgesch .
like his ally he became close to richard steidle in austria and helped him in the organisation of the heimwehr .
kanzler stood down from his freikorps roles in 1921 and later became a member of carl spruner von mertz 's `` bayerischer heimat - und königsbund '' , a monarchist group that was outlawed in 1933 after the formation of the nazi party regime .
indeed kanzler had been an early leader of this group , which - beyond a nostalgically sentimental attachment to the house of wittelsbach - had little function , before giving way to general von krafft .
kanzler had little in common with the nazis and was jailed for treason during the third reich for attempting to promote monarchism and for co-operating with the black front of otto strasser .
following his death , on his 83rd birthday , he was buried in his home town of wasserburg am inn .
