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". 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. Following his death, on his 83rd birthday, he was buried in his home town of Wasserburg am Inn.
Noted for his anti-communism he organised a Bürgerwehr or militia against the communists in Rosenheim in 1919. Kanzler had little in common with the Nazis and was jailed for treason during the Third Reich for attempting to promote monarchism and for co-operating with the Black Front of Otto Strasser.
A Roman Catholic, Kanzler was thus a member of the Centre Party and served this party in the Landtag of Bavaria as representative for Lichtenfels from 1905 to 1918. Kanzler stood down from his Freikorps roles in 1921 and later became a member of Carl Spruner von Mertz"s Bayerischer Heimatund Königsbund, a monarchist group that was outlawed in 1933 after the formation of the Nazi Party regime.
