ABSTRACT
The Bayerischer Heimat- und Konigsbund faced many serious external and internal problems in trying to organize and mobilize Wittelsbach monarchism in Bavaria in the 1920s and early 1930s. Internal disagreements in the Konigsbund were no less common than in other political organizations of the time. A combination of organizational weaknesses and of overoptimism that the royalist fires would burn brightly by themselves marked most aspects of the Royalist League’s operations. The Konigsbundler apparently were at least partly convinced that most upstanding Bavarians were staunch Konigstreue at heart who needed only an initial push to inspire and sustain royalist activism. The Bayern und Reich leadership claimed to know “reliably” that the Royalist League as a whole had “nothing” in the way of money. Many Konigsbundler obviously attached no great significance to a group offering them little more than the chance to meet occasionally with other royalists.
