Their candidate for the German crown is Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, head of the House of Hohenzollern, since 1994.

[2] The group has its origins in the time shortly after World War II, when monarchists got together under the motto "Letters for Tradition und Leben."

They followed partly the tradition of monarchist organisations and personalities from the time of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), especially the Bund der Aufrechten [de], founded in November 1918, and partly the older German traditionalist Völkisch movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

[citation needed] TuL Chairman Knut Wissenbach has said that the goal of the group is to establish a parliamentary constitutional monarchy in Germany, saying "We want to put the crown on democracy.

"[2] Each June, the organization's representatives are among those who lay a wreath at former Kaiser Wilhelm II's mausoleum at Huis Doorn, on the anniversary of his death.