[3] The Teutonia Society functioned partly as a social club, with meetings frequently ending up in heavy beer drinking sessions.
[5] The group changed its name to the Nationalistic Society of Teutonia in 1926, at which point Peter Gissibl was advising members to also seek Nazi Party membership.
[1] The group gained a strong, if fairly small following, and was able to establish units in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Missouri, Detroit, New York City, Cincinnati and Newark, New Jersey.
[11] Shortly thereafter, with help from the German consul in New York City, Spanknöbel created the Friends of New Germany[11] by merging two older organizations in the United States, Gau-USA and the Free Society of Teutonia, which were both small groups with only a few hundred members each.
He founded their paper Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter (literally translated, "German Wake-Up Call and Observer") and its predecessor Deutsche Zeitung.
In 1937, Kappe returned to Germany, where he was attached to Abwehr II (the sabotage branch of German intelligence) where he obtained a Naval commission with the rank of lieutenant.
On June 13, 1942, Richard Quirin, George John Dasch, Heinrich Harm Heinck, and Ernst Peter Burger landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York on a U-boat.
A similar group, consisting of Edward Kerling, Hermann Otto Neubauer, Herbert Hans Haupt, and Werner Thiel, landed on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida on June 17, 1942.