have killed "a number of Mecklenburg laborers and Spartacist sympathizers". He later fell out with Hitler during the latter's rise to power and was arrested but not killed during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Historian Robert G. L. Waite described Roßbach as a "sadistic murderer of the so-called Fehmgericht and the notorious homosexual who, according to his own testimony, perverted Ernst Röhm". After World War II Roßbach operated an import-export company near Frankfurt, and wrote his memoirs in 1950. In his last years he played a prominent role in organising the Bayreuth Festivals of Richard Wagner's music. References Notes Bibliography Applegate, Celia and Potter, Pamela Maxine (eds) (2002) Music and German National Identity. University of Chicago Press. Dornberg, John (1982) The Putsch That Failed, Hitler's Rehearsal for Power. Weidenfels & Nicholson. Friedrich, Thomas (2013) Hitler's Berlin: Abused City Spencer, Stewart (trans). Yale University Press. . Jones, Nigel and Burleigh, Michael (1987, 2004) A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis, How the Freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler. Constable & Robinson Ltd. Roßbach, Gerhard (1950) Mein Weg durch die Zeit: Erinnerungen unt Bekenntnisse ("My Way Across The Era: Recollections And Confessions") Vereinigte Weiburger Buchdruckverein, Weiburg an der Lahn. Snyder, Louis (1998) Encyclopaedia of the Third Reich. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Waite, Robert G. L. (1969) Vanguard of Nazism. W. W. Norton and Company. 1893 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Freikorps personnel German Army personnel of World War I German nationalists Nazi Party politicians German Völkisch Freedom Party politicians Kapp Putsch participants LGBT people in the Nazi Party German LGBT politicians Nazis who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch People from Gryfino County People from the Province of Pomerania Prussian Army personnel 20th-century LGBT people