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Roßbach was born in [[Krzywin, Gryfino County|Kehrberg]], [[Pomerania]]. During the [[Freikorps in the Baltic|Baltic fighting of 1919]], his {{ill|Freikorps Roßbach|de|Sturmabteilung Roßbach}} made an extremely long march from Berlin across Eastern Europe to rescue the Iron Division (another ''Freikorps'') from destruction by the Latvian Army.<ref>Waite, p. 131</ref> It went on to participate in the [[Kapp Putsch]] in 1920, get banned, and then reformed under numerous changing front organizations, each of which in turn was banned.<ref name=Friedrich>Friedrich, pp.52-56</ref> Money came from the [[Agricultural League|Landbund]], heavy industry, and arms dealing. In the early 1920s, he was arrested for trying to overthrow the government.<ref>Waite, pp. 191-196</ref>
In 1921 Roßbach, together with others from the Roßbach society, took part in a bike ride to East Prussia. In order to be uniformly equipped for this trip the remaining stock of the East African Lettow shirts, last used by the officers of the Schutztruppe, were bought and then distributed them to the cyclists. These Shirts were beige-brown, so much lighter than the later Hitler shirts and with white mother-of-pearl buttons. Later these shirts were introduced as a community clothing in his society and in 1924 also for the Salzburg Schill Youth. They were then taken over for the German ''Schilljugend'' by [[Edmund Heines]]
Roßbach helped start the ''Schilljugend'', a youth organization, to get rid of "intellectual elements" in the youth movements and instill children with "nationalistic, socialistic, authoritative, and militaristic" ideas. He took a special interest in developing its membership.<ref>Waite, p. 210</ref> Roßbach organised music festivals which combined folk and classical music to instil national pride and construct radical-nationalist community values.<ref>Applegate and Potter, p. 136</ref>
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*Waite, Robert G. L. (1969) ''Vanguard of Nazism''. W. W. Norton and Company.
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