Many leaders of other banned or controversial right-wing organizations used membership in the Viking League as a way of keeping continuity for their causes.
For example, this included later Nazi Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti, who had founded the anti-semitic newspaper Kampfbund in 1918.
[2] On 9 January 1924 a group of about 20 members of the Viking League led by Edgar Julius Jung were responsible for the murder of the Pfalz separatist Heinz-Orbis.
The two triggermen, Franz Hellinger and Ferdinand Wiesmann, were promptly killed in a shootout by followers of Heinz-Orbis.
The stated aim of the League was the establishment of a new German military dictatorship and modification of the Treaty of Versailles by armed means.