German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation

The Federation was founded in Bamberg in 1919 as a subsidiary organization of the Pan-German League. At the beginning of the 1920s, the German Protection and Defiance Federation (DVSTB) developed into the most influential anti-semitic association, which radically rejected the democratic system of the Weimar Republic. Under the leadership of the Bavarian Konstantin von Gebsattel, the Federation covered the whole of Germany with an unprecedented flood of unrestrained anti-semitic and anti-republican propaganda. In 1922, at the peak of its growth, between 150,000 and 180,000 members were organized in approximately 600 local chapters. The Munich Local Group, the strongest in the Reich with 4,000 members, included all the leading figures of the city's -right-wing camp. In turn, it was intimately linked to the local chapter of the Pan-German League, which was also active.

The DVSTB was thus one of the organizations that ideologically prepared and accompanied the rise of the Nazi Party. While the DVSTB was banned by the Reich government in the summer of 1922 following the murder of Reich Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, the Bavarian regional association was able to continue its activities, tolerated by the Bavarian government. By this time, however, the Munich local group in particular had already lost its leading role within the ethnic-chauvinist movement to the Nazi Party. This became quite obvious at the 'German Day' in Coburg on October 14-15, 1922, to which the DVSTB had invited the community of ethnic-chauvinist associations, but which was dominated by Adolf Hitler and his 600 SAmen who had traveled there. By the mid-1920s, the entire structure of the DVSTB had also disintegrated due to internal conflicts.