[1] Like his ally he became close to Richard Steidle in Austria and helped him in the organisation of the Heimwehr.
[1] Kanzler stood down from his Freikorps roles in 1921, and later became a member of Carl Spruner von Mertz's Bayerischer Heimat- und Königsbund, a monarchist group that was outlawed in 1933 after the formation of the Nazi Party regime.
[1] Indeed, Kanzler had been an early leader of this group, which – beyond a nostalgically sentimental attachment to the House of Wittelsbach – had minimal function, before giving way to General von Krafft.
[2] Kanzler was later arrested and charged with treason during the Third Reich for attempting to promote monarchism and for cooperating with the Black Front of Otto Strasser.
[1] Following his death, on his 83rd birthday, he was buried in his home town of Wasserburg am Inn.