!!!Pfrimer-Putsch

Pfrimer Putsch, attempted putsch by the Styrian Heimatschutz (14,000 
men) under W.  Pfrimer on September 12/13, 1931. In Upper Styria roads 
were blocked, district authorities and almost all towns were taken 
over and mayors were arrested. A unit of men marched via Waidhofen 
an der Ybbs to Amstetten. W. Pfrimer had a "provisional 
constitutional patent" set up, called himself 
"Staatsfuehrer" (state leader) and proclaimed the take-over 
of federal and provincial governments. The putsch was neither 
supported by other Heimwehr associations nor by the general public and 
collapsed without much resistance on the morning of September 9 as 
soon as the Federal Armed Forces stepped in. The two leaders, W. 
Pfrimer and C. O. Graf Lamberg, escaped abroad, 140 persons were 
arrested, 4,000 were reported to the police. Links to the police, 
civil servants, or the armed forces could never be proved.

!Literature
B. F. Pauley, Hahnenschwanz und Hakenkreuz. 
Steirischer Heimatschutz und oesterreichischer National-Sozialismus 
1918-1934, 1972; W. Wiltschegg, Die Heimwehr, 1985.


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