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The man’s name was Hermann Ehrhardt, and after saving the Weimar Republic from communist revolutionaries, he backed or led several attempts to wrest Germany from Hitler, all of which included attempted assassinations.

Hermann Ehrhardt’s postwar motives included a desire not only to stop the westward march of Soviet Bolshevism in Europe, but also to revive the monarchy. Although he played a prominent and successful role toward the former goal, fate ultimately drove Germany down another path along which Ehrhardt could not—and had no desire to—march.

Ehrhardt had been the leader of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt Freikorps to which von Salomon had belonged, and was now the guiding light behind the ‘Organisation Consul’ (OC) terror group in which von Salomon and his comrades had plotted the deaths of high officials.

Herman Ehrhardt was born in Diersburg, Germany, on 29th November, 1881. During the First World War Ehrhardt was a commander in the German Navy. After the war, former senior officers in the German armed forces began raising private armies called Freikorps.

Hermann Ehrhardt was a German naval officer in World War I who became an anti-republican and anti-Semitic German nationalist Freikorps leader during the Weimar Republic. As head of the Marine Brigade Ehrhardt, he was among the best-known Freikorps leaders in the immediate postwar years.