The Anti-Bolshevist League, later the League for the Protection of German Culture, was a short-lived German far-right organization that initially opposed the November Revolution and later most notably the Spartacus League. It was founded in early December 1918 by the young conservative and ultra-nationalist publicist Eduard Stadtler. The organization was financed by large industrialists, bankers as well as former representatives of the German aristocracy.

Hugo Adolf Eugen Victor Stinnes commonly known as Hugo Stinnes was a German industrialist and politician who served as member of Reichstag from 1920 to 1924. During the late era of the German Empire and early Weimar Republic, he was considered to be one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Europe.