Walter Pfrimer
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Walter Pfrimer was an Austrian lawyer, a nationalist politician and leader of the paramilitary Heimwehr in Styria. He was the leader of a failed putsch in 1931 and, though charged with treason, he was
Pfrimer (right) with Heimwehr leader Richard Steidle, c. 1930
Richard Steidle
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Richard Steidle was an Austrian lawyer and the leader of the paramilitary Heimwehr in Tyrol. He was a leading representative of the pro-independence tendency on the far right of Austrian politics and
Walter Pfrimer
…Landeshauptmann Anton Rintelen. Pfrimer advocated Pan-German and Völkische ideals and used the swastika for his Heimwehr units. Like his sometime ally Richard Steidle in Tyrol, he unashamedly endorsed fascism for the Heimwehr, unlike other units that were close to the more ideologically pragmatic Christian Social…
Steidle (middle), 1930
Steidle (bearded) accompanying Waldemar Pabst (carrying bouquet) on his entry to Austria from Italy, c. 1930