Rally badge of the Austrian Heimwehr. On safety pin. Also a membership Pin of the Austrian Heimwehr, mounted on Tie-clip. silvered and enameled.

In Austria, after the end of the First World War, home guards were formed in individual areas from various local residents' militias and self-defense associations, which later also merged on a federal state basis. From April 30, 1919, active paramilitary people's militias were approved and promoted by the Vorarlberg state government against socialist efforts and equipped with weapons (rifles and machine guns) or their equipment was approved. These people's militias were headed by the provincial governor Otto Ender. In the summer of 1920, these people's militias had about 3000 members, while the army in Vorarlberg had only 800 soldiers under arms. These people's militias were mainly financed by the industry in Vorarlberg, from which the Home Guards in Vorarlberg subsequently emerged.