Editing Weimar paramilitary groups (section)

=== Left-wing ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-05976, Berlin, Pfingstreffen der Rot-Front-Kämpfer.jpg|thumb|288x288px|Assembly of the Communist Party's ''[[Roter Frontkämpferbund]]'' at the [[Berlin Cathedral]] in 1928]]
* ''[[Roter Frontkämpferbund]]'' (Red Front Fighters' League) was founded by the [[Communist Party of Germany]] (KPD) in 1924 and attained a peak membership of 110,000. It was banned across Germany in 1929 after the ''[[Blutmai]]'' demonstrations in Berlin that left 33 dead. Despite the ban, it engaged in frequent street battles with the Nazi SA until Hitler came to power in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Asmuss |first=Burkhard |date=8 June 2011 |title=Der Rote Frontkämpferbund |trans-title=The Red Front Fighters' League |url=https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapitel/weimarer-republik/innenpolitik/roter-frontkaempferbund.html |access-date=23 July 2024 |website=Deutsches Historisches Museum |language=de}}</ref>
* ''Antifaschistische Junge Garde'' (Young Antifascist Guard) was the youth wing of the [[Communist Party of Germany|KPD]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kater |first=Michael H. |title=Hitler Youth |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2004 |location=Cambridge, MA |page=7 |chapter=Make Way, You Old Ones!}}</ref> and was banned in 1933.
* {{ill|Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus|de}} (Fighting League against Fascism) was the successor to the ''Roter Frontkämpferbund'' after it was banned in 1929. The ''Kampfbund'' itself was banned in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mühldorfer |first=Friedbert |date=27 April 1922 |title=Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, 1930–1933 |url=https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Kampfbund_gegen_den_Faschismus,_1930-1933 |access-date=24 July 2024 |website=Historisches Lexikon Bayerns |language=de}}</ref>
* ''[[Antifaschistische Aktion]]'' (Antifascist Action) was founded in 1932 and affiliated with the [[Communist Party of Germany|KPD]]. Its primary activity was to boost the KPD campaign during the [[July 1932 German federal election|July 1932]] and [[November 1932 German federal election]]s. It was banned in 1933.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pieroth |first=Stephan |title=Parteien und Presse in Rheinland-Pfalz 1945–1971: ein Beitrag zur Mediengeschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Mainzer SPD-Zeitung 'Die Freiheit' |publisher=v. Hase & Koehler Verlag |year=1994 |isbn=978-3-775-81326-6 |location=Mainz |page=96 |language=de |trans-title=Political Party and Press in Rhineland-Palatinate 1945–1971: A Contribution to Media History with Special Consideration of the Mainz SPD Newspaper 'Die Freiheit'}}</ref>
* [[Rote Ruhrarmee]] (Ruhr Red Army) was an army of approximately 50,000 workers that formed in the industrialized [[Ruhr district]] during the [[Kapp Putsch]] with the goal of establishing a council republic. Not a true paramilitary in structure, it was suppressed with considerable loss of life by government troops and ''Freikorps'' units in what was known as the [[Ruhr uprising]] (13 March – 12 April 1920).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kämpfe der "Roten Ruhrarmee" |trans-title=Battles of the "Ruhr Red Army" |url=https://weimar.bundesarchiv.de/WEIMAR/DE/Content/Dokumente-zur-Zeitgeschichte/1920-03-15_Rote_Ruhrarmee.html |access-date=24 July 2024 |website=Bundesarchiv |language=de}}</ref>
* ''[[Schwarze Scharen]]'' (Black Band) were resistance groups of anarchist and [[anarcho-syndicalist]] youth affiliated with the [[Free Workers' Union of Germany]] (FAUD). The Black Band was banned in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rübner |first=Hartmut |title=Freiheit und Brot. 11. Der Anarchosyndikalismus als soziokulturelle Bewegung abseits gewerkschaftlicher Zusammenhänge |trans-title=Freedom and Bread. 11. Anarcho-syndicalism as a Socio-cultural Movement outside of Trade Union Context |url=http://ur.dadaweb.de/ask51116.htm |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus |language=de}}</ref>

Similar organisations existed in the [[First Austrian Republic]], most notably the [[Republikanischer Schutzbund|''Schutzbund'']] and the [[Heimwehr]].