The Reichsbürger movement, also known as the Reich Citizens movement, is a far-right monarchist movement in Germany which aims to restore the German Reich, which it argues was never legally abolished. The movement was founded by the self-proclaimed Reich Chancellor Wolfgang Gerhard Günter Ebel in 1985, and the movement claimed that the Federal Republic was a corporation created by the Allies after World War II and responded by issuing its own currency and stamps, re-established "courts" and "parliaments" (as well as Reich Ministers, state governments, and a criminal court), and claimed that Germany's 1932 or 1871 borders still existed. By 2018, the Reichsbürger movement had 18,000 adherents (including 950 right-wing extremists), up from 10,000 in 2016. The movement exists across Germany, but it is concentrated in the south and east of the country, especially in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Bavaria (with 3,500 members), and Baden-Wurttemberg (with 2,500 members). Members tend to be between the ages of 40 and 60, male, socially disadvantaged, and isolated from the rest of society, and many are considered to be mentally disordered. As the Reichsbürger movement is a movement rather than an organization, it consists of smaller organizations, some of which have links to far-right and neo-Nazi groups, as well as supporting far-right conspiracy theories such as QAnon and anti-vaccination. Its "Patriotic Union" group, led by Heinrich Reuss, sought to provoke chaos and a civil war in Germany and seize power. On 7 December 2022, 25 people were arrested for plotting a coup against the federal government.