ABSTRACT
The Konigsbund’s relationship with the Bavarian People’s Party remained characteristically close but often strained in the early 1930s. This was partly a matter of conviction and partly a matter of limited alternatives for the HKB leaders. Even as the Bavarian King and Country League left behind it the internal wrangling over the popular referendum on the controversial “Freedom Law” in December 1929, it faced several major challenges. The Nazi movement was scarcely popular among the top leaders of the Heimat- und Konigsbund. Eugen Furst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein and all Erwein Freiherr von Aretin early on considered the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei to pose a dangerous threat of revolution from the Left with a nationalist veneer. The Nazi movement’s continued expansion and the paralysis of parliamentary government in both Berlin and Munich in the course of 1930–1931 again made made National Socialism a major topic at the Konigsbund’s December 1931 convention.
