Arbeiter-Schutzbund

Arbeiter-Schutzbund
Leader
  • Günter Klingenberg
  • Willi Godau
Foundation15 March 1931
Dates of operationMarch 15, 1931 (1931-03-15)–September 10, 1932 (1932-09-10)
Dissolved10 September er 1932
CountryFree City of Danzig
AllegianceSocial Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig
MotivesSelf-defense
IdeologySocial democracy

The Arbeiter-Schutzbund ('Workers Defense Union') was an anti-fascist paramilitary organization in the Free City of Danzig in the early 1930s, being the paramilitary wing of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig. The organization had some 4,500 members.[1]

  1. ^ Kowalski, Werner (1985). Geschichte der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Internationale, (1923-1940) (in German). VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften. p. 291.