Gerhard Roßbach and the Schilljugend

Founded in 1924 by former Freikorps leader Gerhard Roßbach and named by him after Prussian Major Ferdinand von Schill, the Schill-Jugend were one of the various forerunners of the more famous Hitler-Jugend. Roßbach actually founded his youth group in Salzburg, having fled Germany itself after Hitler's disastrous Munich Putsch. He had previously been an active Nazi and is supposed to have been responsible for kitting out the SA in their trademark natty brown uniforms. (Courtesy, according to legend, of the colonial army surplus!)

He was also (of course!) a notorious homosexual, who boasted that he had been the man who had originally introduced Ernst Röhm to joys of proper right-wing masculine man-sex.

One of his deputies in the Schill-Jugend was Edmund Heines.

According to Wikipedia,

Roßbach helped start the Schilljugend, a youth organization, to get rid of "intellectual elements" in the youth movements and instill children with "nationalistic, socialistic, authoritative, and militaristic" ideas. He took a special interest in developing its membership. Roßbach organised music festivals which combined folk and classical music to instil national pride and construct radical-nationalist community values.

After World War II he operated an export-import company near Frankfurt and wrote his memoirs in 1950. In his last years he took a prominent part in organising the Bayreuth festivals of Richard Wagner's music.