 Noted for his anti-communism he organised a "Bürgerwehr" or militia against the communists in Rosenheim in 1919.This group grew into the "Freikorps Chiemgau", for a time the largest single Freikorps in Germany, under the command of Kanzler who became known as the 'White General'.Kanzler became an ally of the rightist militant Georg Escherich and soon led his own Organisation Kanzler or 'Orka' in imitation of Escherich's Orgesch.