Organisation Consul

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Organisation Consul was a clandestine far-right German paramilitary group of the early Weimar Republic, notorious for political assassinations and violent opposition to the democratic government.

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Organisation Consul canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German political organization
clandestine paramilitary organization
far-right terrorist organization
activePeriodEnd 1922
activePeriodStart 1920
armed true
classification terrorist organization by contemporary authorities
composedOf former Freikorps members
former naval officers
country Germany
dissolutionReason state repression after high-profile assassinations
dissolvedBy German authorities
financing support from right-wing nationalist networks
foundedBy Hermann Ehrhardt
goal establishment of an authoritarian nationalist regime
overthrow of the Weimar Republic
hasLeader Hermann Ehrhardt
historicalContext post-World War I political violence in Germany
ideology anti-democratic
anti-republican
far-right
völkisch nationalism
inspired later right-wing terrorist groups in Germany
linkedTo Freikorps movement
German nationalist circles
notableEvent series of political murders in early 1920s Germany
notableFor assassination of Matthias Erzberger
assassination of Walther Rathenau
operatedIn Weimar Republic
operationalStructure secret cells
opposed Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
opposedFormOfGovernment parliamentary democracy
republicanism
partOf right-wing paramilitary milieu of early Weimar Republic
perpetratedAssassinationOf Matthias Erzberger
Walther Rathenau
precededBy Marinebrigade Ehrhardt
secretive true
status dissolved
supportedFormOfGovernment authoritarian nationalist state
targeted republican politicians
supporters of the Weimar Republic
usedMethod clandestine operations
political assassination
terrorism

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Matthias Erzberger killedBy Organisation Consul
Marinebrigade Ehrhardt influenced Organisation Consul