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Gerhard Roßbach (February 28, 1893 – August 30, 1967), also spelt Rossbach, was a German ''Freikorps'' leader and organizer of nationalist groups after World War I. He is generally credited with inventing the brown colored uniforms of the Nazi Party after supplying surplus tropical khaki shirts to early troops of the ''Sturmabteilung''. ==Biography== Roßbach was born in Kehrberg, Pomerania. During the Baltic fighting of 1919, his ''Freikorps'' made an extremely long march from Berlin across Eastern Europe to rescue the Iron Division (another ''Freikorps'') from destruction by the Latvian Army.〔 Waite, p. 131〕 It went on to participate in the Kapp Putsch in 1920, get banned, and then reform under various front organizations. Money came from the Landbund, Heavy Industry, and arms dealing. In the early 1920s, he was arrested for trying to overthrow the government.〔 Waite, pp. 191-196〕 Roßbach also joined the Nazi Party. He took part in the Beer Hall putsch of 1923, mobilising students, cadets and officer candidates of the ''Reichswehr'', and then fled to Austria after the ''putsch'' failed. He was recruited by Adolf Hitler to help organize the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA).〔 Waite, p. 196〕 By 1928, he could claim to have killed "a number of Mecklenburg laborers and Spartacist sympathizers".〔 Waite, p. 192, quoting Roßbach's testimony at a 1928 trial〕 He later fell out with Hitler during his rise to power and was arrested but not killed during the Roehm Purge in 1934.〔Roßbach, Gerhard. ''Mein Weg. . . ''〕 Historian Robert G. L. Waite described him as a "sadistic murderer of the so-called Fehmgericht and the notorious homosexual who, according to his own testimony, perverted Ernst Röhm".〔 Waite, p. 131, in footnote 112. However, the usually very detailed Waite doesn't list a specific source for this (ie. 'his own testimony')〕 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.〔 Waite, p. 210〕 Roßbach organised music festivals which combined folk and classical music to instil national pride and construct radical-nationalist community values.〔 Applegate and Potter, p. 136〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerhard Roßbach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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