[2] Volck, though based in northern Germany, strenuously disagree with one of the central elements of the NSFP platform, namely, participation in parliamentary elections at the state (Landtag) and national (Reichstag) levels.
[3] Refusing to join the NSFP, Volck assembled a coalition of like-minded individuals on 3 June 1924 in Hamburg and established an arbeitsgemeinschaft (working group) headed by a three-person Directorate.
Volck immediately issued instructions establishing a very tight chain of command flowing from the Directory to state, provincial, regional and local Party organizations.
[5] In preparation for the upcoming conference, Volck, now back at the head of the Directory, issued directives in mid-July reiterating his opposition to any merger or acceptance of electoral participation.
Claiming to represent the only ideologically pure conception of National Socialism, he stated: "The highest goal of our movement is not subordination under party and faction."
[7] Ludendorff was undeterred and, as expected, called for a joint conference of Nazi and NSFP leaders on 15–17 August 1924, also to be held in Weimar, to approve a merger between the two organizations.
None of the leaders of the Directory attended and a resolution was passed joining the NSFP and the Nazi Party into an electoral coalition, newly named the National Socialist Freedom Movement (NSFB).
Though not a formal merger, and though differences of opinion and clashes of personality between the NSFP leaders and the Nazi leadership in Munich ensured that true unity remained illusory, this was still too much for Volck and the Directory to accept.
[8] Calling a meeting of the Directory membership in Harburg on 7 September, Volck moved further away from the Munich leadership of the Nazi Party by forming the National Socialist Working Community (NSAG).
Under this new title, the meeting unanimously reaffirmed its opposition to the NSFB, and Volck also obtained passage of a resolution to reject all parliamentary electoral participation.