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Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser (also German: Straßer, see ß; 10 September 1897 – 27 August 1974) was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi Party.Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's more radical wing, whose ideology became known as Strasserism, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant Hitlerite faction.
Gregor Strasser (also German: Straßer, see ß; 31 May 1892 – 30 June 1934) was a German politician and early leader of the Nazi Party.Along with his younger brother Otto, he was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, which brought them into conflict with the dominant faction led by Adolf Hitler, resulting in his murder in 1934.
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934) began his career in ultranationalist German politics by joining the Freikorps after soldiering in the First World War (1914–1918). He participated in the Kapp Putsch (13 March 1920) and formed his own völkischer Wehrverband , a “popular defense union” that Strasser later merged into the Nazi Party in 1921.
The remaining anti-capitalist elements of the Nazis were eradicated in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives, in which Gregor Strasser, Otto's older brother, was killed. Gregor Strasser had previously broken with his brother over Otto's proclivity to act on his own. [4] Otto Strasser spent the years of the Third Reich in exile, first in ...
Killed by SS in a case of mistaken identity, believing him to be either SA-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Schmid [19] or Dr. Ludwig Schmitt, sympathizer of Otto Strasser. [4] Wilhelm Schmid: Stadelheim Prison, Munich SA-Gruppenfuhrer, Fuhrer of SA-Gruppe Hochland in Munich and member of the Reichstag Arrested in Munich and sent to Stadelheim prison.
During his early years in Nazi Party as SS-Gauführer, Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler worked briefly as a deputy of Gregor Strasser, then head of party propaganda department. Influenced heavily by Strasserist ideas, Himmler attacked capitalism and viewed socialism as "the natural economic system" during the 1920s. [ 4 ]
The increased number of party members split into two ideological factions; the northern faction of the Nazi Party championed the Third position politics of Strasserism (revolutionary nationalism and economic antisemitism), and was led by Otto Strasser and Gregor Strasser; the southern faction of the party followed Hitler's brand of Nazism, and ...
While Gregor Strasser took on the duties of editor and – following his childhood dream of becoming a journalist – contributed numerous articles, Otto Strasser was the editor-in-chief of the Strassersche Zeitungen. Other employees of the Kampfverlags newspapers included Hans Hinkel, Walther Darré and the draftsman Hans Schweitzer.