 Like his ally he became close to Richard Steidle in Austria and helped him in the organisation of the Heimwehr.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.Indeed, Kanzler had been an early leader of this group, which - beyond a nostalgically sentimental attachment to the House of Wittelsbach - had little function, before giving way to General von Krafft.