Sources
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv München IV, NL Rudolf von Xylander 99, Programm des Bayerischen Ordnungsblocks.
Kanzler, Rudolf: Bayerns Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus. Geschichte der bayerischen Einwohnerwehren, München 1931.
Bavarian Order Bloc
Alliance of 40 anti-parliamentary and anti-socialist organizations
Aufruf zum Eintritt in den Bayerischen Ordnungsblock zur Bekämpfung des Bolschewismus, Mai 1920 | aus: Münchner Studentendienst, 1920, Nr. 2/3 (BSB)
After the Kapp Putsch, the Bavarian Order Bloc (BOB) was a new attempt to unite the anti-parliamentary forces against the Weimar Republic. Each month, representatives of the Nazi Party, the German People's Protection and Defiance League, the Pan-German League, the ‘Hochschulring’ (University Circle) of German Art, the German National Association of Commercial Employees, several monarchist associations and eight officers' and military associations came together. The founders were the sculptor Fritz Behn, a personal friend of Georg Escherich, the head of the citizens’ militias, and Erwin Pixis, director of the Munich Art Association. From the summer of 1920, the Pan-Germanist Paul Tafel was the program director and chairman. The inner committee was chaired by the hygienists Max von Gruber and Herrmann Dürck, among others.
They formulated the goal that "All conservative-minded parties and organizations agree that from now on there will only be two parties in Germany: order-loving and destructive”. The “front” against the “destroyers” was served by the establishment of a “Technical Order Service”, “intended for use during strikes and unrest” and the “organization of an Intelligence Service extending across the entire Reich and abroad” (Kanzler, p. 73). The B.O.B. worked ever more closely with the State Premier Gustav von Kahr.
The program of October 15, 1921 again called for “tireless educational work in working-class circles” to ward off Bolshevism. The workers had to learn to recognize that the vast majority of their leaders were elements alien to the people and that they were basically “doing the business of the Jews and the international Jewish stock exchange capital” (BayHStA, NL R. Xylander 99). The aim of abolishing parliamentarianism was reaffirmed. In addition to lectures and writings by its chairman Paul Tafel, the B.O.B. was particularly well known publicly for the so-called “German Celebrations” at the Odeon in Munich. There was also a local group of the Order Bloc in Tyrol. With the founding of the “Federation of Patriotic Associations in Bavaria”, the B.O.B. achieved its purpose in 1922. In 1923, it was transferred to the State Political Society (Staatspolitische Gesellschaft e.V.).