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Pfrimer-Putsch
© Copyright Proclamation of Pfrimer Putsch on September 13, 1931 Pfrimer Putsch, attempted putsch by the Styrian Heimatschutz (14,000 men) under W. Pfrimer on September 12/13, 1931. In Upper Styria roads were blocked, district authorities and almost all towns were taken over and mayors were arrested. A unit of men marched via Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Amstetten. W. Pfrimer had a "provisional constitutional patent" set up, called himself "Staatsführer" (state leader) and proclaimed the take-over of federal and provincial governments. The putsch was neither supported by other Heimwehr associations nor by the general public and collapsed without much resistance on the morning of September 9 as soon as the Federal Armed Forces stepped in. The two leaders, W. Pfrimer and C. O. Graf Lamberg, escaped abroad, 140 persons were arrested, 4,000 were reported to the police. Links to the police, civil servants, or the armed forces could never be proved. Literature: B. F. Pauley, Hahnenschwanz und Hakenkreuz. Steirischer Heimatschutz und österreichischer National-Sozialismus 1918-1934, 1972; W. Wiltschegg, Die Heimwehr, 1985.
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