Mahraun hoped to overcome class and social differences in German society by instilling it with the camaraderie that front-line soldiers had experienced during World War I.

[3] Mahraun wanted to recreate the camaraderie experienced by soldiers at the front during World War I in order to overcome class and social differences in German society.

[6] It kept the underlying structure of a paramilitary for a number of years,[7] although during the Kapp Putsch of 1920, its leadership declared its solidarity with the legitimate government of Chancellor Gustav Bauer of the Social Democrats (SPD).

[9] Historian Ernst Maste wrote:[7]The initial character of the "middle-class peasant self-protection organisation" was very soon shed; the more general character of the defense association then faded to the extent that the Young German Order, without joining the ranks of the parties, became a political factor comparable to them, although the terms "right" and "left" were soon no longer applicable to its position.The Jungdo declared its goal to be a "true democratic state structure" from the "compact spaces of neighbourhoods or residential quarters".

[12] The Schutz- und Trutzbund district leader for northern Bavaria from 1920 to 1923, Hans Dietrich, was the second commander of the Young German Ballei of Franconia.

As a result, an Aryan paragraph excluding non-Aryans (meaning primarily Jews) was introduced into the Young German Order's statutes.

While the Nazi Party denounced the antisemitism of the Order and the Volksnationale Reichsvereinigung as unreliable, the Left, liberals and Jewish organisations accused them of a coverup.

[16] The Young German Order nevertheless did not allow the Aryan paragraph to be shaken as the ethnic and racial basis of its membership, and Mahraun said that it was not antisemitism.

The Order and the VNR fought "demagogic antisemitism" for reasons of national unity and pacification and supported the principles of civic equality.

The historians and political scientists Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke consider antisemitism to be a characteristic of the Jungdo, although it was "never at the centre of the Order's ideology and propaganda".

[3] After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Young German Order was banned since it could not be brought into line or integrated into a National Socialist organisation.

After the war, Artur Mahraun opposed the immediate re-establishment of the Young German Order since, in his opinion, the time was not yet ripe for an "order-like" association.

He explained his view to his old comrades-in-arms in personal letters and expressly emphasised:[24]The Young German Order will arise again at a later date.

He has seen from afar the political homeland in which the German nomads of the intellectual mass migration are to be settled again.Until his death, Artur Mahraun devoted himself to building neighbourhoods in local communities.