The Feme (German pronunciation:[ˈfeːmə]) murders (German: Fememorde) were a series of murders in the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1923 carried out by German far-right groups against individuals they believed had committed treason against them by betraying their secrets. They were considered a distinct category from politically motivated assassinations of public officials. By the time the Feme murders ended, they had claimed almost 400 victims. In spite of a number of investigations, few of the perpetrators were ever identified or prosecuted.
The Feme (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːmə]) murders (German: Fememorde) were a series of murders in the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1923 carried out...
(1991). Fememorde und Fememordprozesse in der Weimarer Republik [FemeMurders and FemeMurder Trials in the Weimar Republic] (in German). Cologne: Böhlau-Verlag...
and radical left-wing parties". They also took part in the so-called "Fememurders" against anyone, even members of their own group, who they believed to...
to have ordered Fememurders and kidnappings. It had close connections with radical right-wing organizations in Bavaria. The murderers of Matthias Erzberger...
levying false police reports and perverting the course of justice in the Fememurders cases. In 1929, Bernreuther became Director of the Police in Regensburg...
to Fascism. His influential writings about the politically motivated Fememurders made the case that the Weimar Republic was corruptly anti-leftist and...
charged with the murders, prosecutors alleged that the killings were ordered by the officers from Bock's group. Regarding the Fememurders, Ossietzky wrote:...
before parliamentary committees of inquiry and in the trials for the Fememurders, politically motivated killings perpetrated by both the Black Reichswehr...
The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or simply Vehm, also spelt Feme, Vehmegericht, Fehmgericht, are names given to a tribunal system of Westphalia...
retired general Erich Ludendorff, Waldemar Pabst (who had been behind the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919), and Traugott von...
Treaty. The Black Reichswehr became infamous for its practice of using Fememurders to punish "traitors" who, for example, revealed the locations of weapons'...
Nazi Party activists (managed by the Chamber of Commerce), and ultimately murder of Jewish business owners. In Berlin alone, there were 50,000 Jewish-owned...
Reichswehr under Buchrucker became infamous for its practice of using Fememurders to punish "traitors" who, for example, revealed the locations of weapons'...
"Anti-Democratic Terror in the Weimar Republic: the Black Reichswehr and the Feme-Murders". In Hirschfeld, Gerhard; Mommsen, Wolfgang J. (eds.). Social Protest...
in the Black Reichswehr in 1923 where he was involved in a number of Fememurders. In the aftermath of the failed Küstrin Putsch, Pannwitz fled again to...
All of these were responsible for the political violence of so-called Fememurders and an overall atmosphere of lingering civil war during the Weimar period...
during the French occupation of the Ruhr and were responsible for several Fememurders. Active 1919 to 1923. All vote numbers in thousands. Regional= Total...
the Reichstag, KPD member Wilhelm Pieck condemned Zörgiebel as a "common murderer", while the SPD defended police leadership. Although Zörgiebel called on...
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