the Organization Consul (O.C.) was an active German nationalist terrorist organization during the Weimar Republic. Based on the refusal of the Treated of Versailles and the consequences of the First World War, it tried to destabilize the democratic system of the young republic by political assassinations, among which that of Walther Rathenau in 1922. Created in 1920 after the failure of the Putsch of Kapp by the captain Hermann Ehrhardt in the brigade of the Freikorps which it ordered, it was organized in Secret society.

Targets of the Organization Consul

• , an important member of USPD assassinated in 1921 with Munich. Its assassins were however never found.
• Matthias Erzberger, former minister for finances, assassinated in Bavaria in 1921.
• Philipp Scheidemann, old Ministerpräsident, which proclaimed the republic in November 1918. But the attack against its person failed in 1922.
• Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister 1922.

The organization had ramifications in all the Germany and counted to 5000 members. Most known was the writer Ernst von Solomon, implied in the assassination of Rathenau and condemned to five years of imprisonment.

Prohibited in 1922, the Organization reappeared in the form of the Bund Wiking. Under the Third Reich, the members of the O.C were celebrated like “heroes of national resistance” ( Helden of the nationalen Widerstandes “).

External bonds

• Political assassinations under the Weimar Republic
• Page of Walther-Rathenau-Gesellschaft