Gerhard Roßbach

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Gerhard Roßbach (February 28, 1893 – August 30, 1967) was a member of the German armed forces.

He took part in the Beer Hall putsch of 1923 mobilising students, cadets and officer candidates of the Reichswehr Infantry, fleeing to Austria after the putsch failed. He later fell out with Adolf Hitler during his rise to power and was arrested but not killed during the Roehm Purge. After World War II he operated an export-import company near Frankfurt and wrote his memoirs in 1950.[1] In his last years he took a prominent part in organising the Bayreuth festivals of Richard Wagner's music.

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  1. ^ Roßbach, Gerhard. Mein Weg durch die Zeit: Erinnerungen unt Bekenntnisse (My Way Across The Era: Recollections And Confessions). Vereinigte Weiburger Buchdruckverein, Weiburg an der Lahn, 1950.

[edit] References

  • Snyder, Louis. Encyclopaedia of the Third Reich. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
  • Dornberg, John. The Putsch That Failed, Hitler's Rehearsal for Power. Weidenfels & Nicholson, 1982
  • Jones, Nigel. The Birth of the Nazis, How the Freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler. Constable & Robinson Ltd, 1987,2004
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