Whatever happened to...

Ricky · Mar 20, 2007

... the guys who founded the Nazi Party?

If I remember correctly, Hitler was member #7 (or thereabouts) and joined the party after attending a meeting (apparently he was spying on them for the government - or was it the army?).

So what happened to the guys who actually founded the party? Who were they, and did they just drop out of history altogether?

FNG phpbb3 · Mar 20, 2007

Hilter probably bumped them off on his rise to number 1, as is the case in these things like Lenin and Stalin

FNG

Ricky · Mar 20, 2007

Wikipedia gives some interesting info...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

founded by Anton Drexler, with help from Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer. Hitler was member #55

Their fates...
(all from Wikipedia)

Anton Drexler:

Wiki said:

Drexler was also a member of a völkisch political club for affluent members of Munich society known as the Thule Society. His membership in the NSDAP ended when it was temporarily outlawed in 1923 following the Beer Hall Putsch, in which Drexler had not taken part; he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party in 1924, in which he served as Vice-President until 1928; he had no part in the NSDAP's refounding in 1925. He rejoined only after Hitler had come to power in 1933. He received the party's "blood badge" in 1934 and was still occasionally used as a propaganda tool until about 1937, but was never again allowed any real power. He was largely forgotten by the time of his death. (in 1942)
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Gottfried Feder:

Very involved, and was even the party leader while Hitler was in jail, until -

Wiki said:

After the Night of the Long Knives, where officials like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm were murdered, Feder began to withdraw from the government, finally becoming a professor at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin in December 1936, where he stayed until his death in Murnau on September 24, 1941.
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Dietrich Eckhart:

Again, very involved, and a very big influence on Hitler. He was in prison with Hitler, but released due to ill health. And then...

Wiki said:

He died of a heart attack caused by a morphine addiction in Berchtesgaden on December 26, 1923. He was buried in Berchtesgaden's old cemetary, not far from the eventual graves of Nazi party official Hans Lammers and his wife and daughter.

Hitler later on dedicated the second volume of Mein Kampf to Eckart, and also named the Waldbühne in Berlin "Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne" when it was first opened for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Karl Harrer:

Wiki said:

Harrer became the party's first chairman (adopting the title of "Reichsvorsitzender"); however, his plans to continue the DAP as a secret society similar to the Thule Society collided with Adolf Hitler's, who had also soon joined the party. Towards the end of 1919, their rivalry became more and more apparent; Harrer accused Hitler of megalomania, and ultimately resigned from all party offices and left the party after pressure from Hitler on January 5, 1920. The chairmanship passed first to vice chairman Drexler, and in 1921 to Hitler himself some months later.
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