It was formed by members of the disbanded Freikorps group Marine Brigade Ehrhardt and was responsible for political assassinations that had the ultimate goal of destroying the Republic and replacing it with a right-wing dictatorship.

from the ranks of the Brigade after the failure of the 1920 Kapp Putsch, an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin.

The Reich government and Reichswehr leadership initially tolerated it, hoping to use it and similar associations to undermine the arms restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles.

[8] With liaison officers throughout the Reich, the Organisation Consul could draw from a pool of an estimated 5,000 men.

's statutes listed their goal as "the fight against everything anti-national and international, Judaism, social democracy and radical left-wing parties".

As a front, the organization created the Bavarian Wood Products Company headquartered in Munich.

[11] About 30 full-time employees worked there under the de facto leadership of Ehrhardt's chief of staff, Alfred Hoffmann.

took part in the 1920 referendum campaign that preceded the Upper Silesia plebiscite and, as Sturmkompanie Koppe, in the suppression of the Third Polish Uprising which attempted to have the territory ceded to Poland.

was to provoke the political left into an uprising, which they then wanted to put down together with the Reichswehr in order to use the position of power thus gained to crush the Weimar Republic and install a right-wing dictatorship.

Lieutenant Hans Ulrich Klintzsch took over the military leadership of the former Gymnastic and Sports Division of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

In the Organisation Consul's mission statement it defined its spiritual aims as "the cultivation and dissemination of nationalist thinking; warfare against all anti-nationalists and internationalists; warfare against Jewry, social democracy and leftist radicalism; fomentation of internal unrest in order to attain the overthrow of the anti-nationalist Weimar Constitution."

was financed by industrialists and enemies of the Weimar Republic in the bourgeoisie, nobility and military, who, like Erhardt, wanted to force a violent change in the political situation.

[16] On 26 August 1921 Matthias Erzberger, a Centre Party politician hated by the right wing as one of the signers of the armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers at the end of World War I, was murdered by Heinrich Schulz and Heinrich Tillessen near Bad Griesbach in the Black Forest.

The police investigation quickly led to the perpetrators and finally to the Organisation Consul to which the two belonged.

On the basis of the Law for the Protection of the Republic (Gesetz zum Schutze der Republik)[18] enacted on 21 July 1922, the Organisation Consul was banned.

Ehrhardt clashed several times with Adolf Hitler in Munich in the 1920s, accusing him among other things of breaking his word.