Organization Consul

Short Info

Names:	Organization Consul
Founded:	1920
Released:	1923
Regions of activity:	Germany
Aims:	The overthrowal of the Weimar Republic

History

As the succession organization of the "Freikorpsbrigade" (Free corps brigade) which was scattered after the Kapp coup, Hermann Ehrhardt founded the right-wing Organization Consul in 1920 in Munich. It was named after Ehrhardt's pseudonym. One of the group's first victims was the former Minister of Finance of the German Empire and the signer of the odious Versailles agreement, Matthias Erzberger. He died of the corollaries of the attack by Consul members on August 26, 1921. Thereupon, German Empire's president Friedrich Ebert enacted a rescription "for the shelter of people and state". Although the organization can be considered as broken-up since the detection of its Munich headquarters and the arrest of some leading members at the end of 1921, it continued to murder. On June 4, 1922, the non-deadly hydrocyanic acid attempt on republic-announcer Philipp Scheidemann followed as well as the killing of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau on June 24, 1922, in Berlin. Those 20 members who were convicted of organized crime in 1924 received short arrests, but they were amnestied a short time later. Again as a succession organization of Consul the Viking Union established itself as a forum where former Consul members met since 1923. In subsequence of its prohibition, the extremists encountered again, this time in the 1918-founded "Stahlhelm" (Steel Helmet).

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It’s Monday morning, you’re sitting at your desk without doing anything. You merely check the mail, concerning different inquiries to authorities. Since almost a year this spot is your place of work, and in a few weeks you’ll celebrate this jubilee with your colleagues. Shortly you remember how you did your final exams the year before. Originally, you didn’t want to become a lawyer, because the dry stuff made you weary. But just after you decided to subscribe for an economic course, there was that deciding scene in your life. During your studies and even in the recent period you neither had time nor leisure to re-concern with that event. However the years passed, and you had to solve the small problem until it developed to a huge scandal. Now, when you remembered the event itself, you could also memorize every very small detail. "Everything started with my grandfather’s death. He lived for quite a few years alone in his house in North Dakota, in a village near Bismarck. Bismarck, how this fits!", you think. Your grandfather has been at the army lifelong, during World War II he served in Germany. "Bismarck", you think again, and then you remember those strange documents you found after his death at him ...

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Why did your grandfather do it you think