Ehrhardt is Old High German for "Ehre" = honour and "hard" = strong.
The Schützenfest commemorates the town's rich German heritage and their German founder, Conrad Ehrhardt, an immigrant from Weiterode Kurhessen, Germany.
Arthur Ehrhardt (21 March 1896, Mengersgereuth-Hämmern, Saxe-Meiningen - 16 May 1971) was a German Waffen-SS officer and author on warfare who became a leading figure in the post-war neo-Nazi movement.
On 28 February 1920 Noske, following orders of the Interalliierte Militärkontrollkommission which controlled Germany's compliance with the Treaty, dissolved the Freikorps Marinebrigaden "Ehrhardt" and "Loewenfeld".
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