German Socialist Party

The German Socialist Party ( DSP) was a party radically anti -Semitic forces of the nationalist movement. The party was founded in late 1918 in the initial phase of the Weimar Republic dissolved 1922 on; Many members went over to the NSDAP.

History

The establishment of the DSP went back to the run by Rudolf von Sebottendorf Thule Society; one of the members came from the German Nationalists protection and Trutzbund ( DVSTB ). Programmatically, attacked the party back to publications of the Mechanical Engineer Alfred Brunner from Dusseldorf. The anti-Semite Brunner wanted to unite the working class "on German national basis ."

In Bavaria, the Munich chapter of Scripture two conductors of the "Munich Observer " - later renamed Völkischer observers - founded in May 1919. Of special importance was the Nuremberg local group, which was created on 24 November 1919. Here Julius Streicher was a member and received within the DSP a similarly dominant position as Adolf Hitler in the Nazi Party. The Nuremberg local group had in the summer of 1920 350 members and was next to Munich a regional focus of the party. In the fall of 1920 should have passed with around 2,000 members of 35 local groups.

At a party conference on 23 to 25 April 1920 in Hanover, the DSP was founded on imperial level. In the Reichstag elections of June 6, 1920, the party entered in five out of 35 constituencies and remained insignificant with just over 7,000 votes.

When DSP convention in the summer of 1920 in Leipzig String could not prevail with his position a clear demarcation between the DSP of the NSDAP and DVSTB. An agreement between the DSP and the Nazi Party called for the demarcation of spheres of influence: The DSP should be limited north of the Main and the Nuremberg area to the area. In October 1920, the DSP board moved its headquarters from Hannover to Berlin. The following month, Emil Holtz became party chairman. Holtz came from Berlin's local group, which was founded in June 1920 by Arno other Chwatal and Hermann Kretzschmann. Despite the small number of members ", the DSP developed in Berlin to an important activist organization of right-wing extremism ." In March 1922, the Berlin branch of the NSDAP group occurred in Munich.

An agreement of strings and other DSP members with the Nazi party chairman Anton Drexler from the end of March 1921 called for the merger of the NSDAP, DSP and Austrian National Socialists German National Socialist Party. The plan failed because of Hitler's rejection. Streicher tried in the summer of 1921 in the "German plant community" ( DW, also: "Factory Community of Western Federal " ) of the Augsburg Study Council Otto Dickel to win an ally. The DW founded in Nuremberg, a local group and was able to gain in attendance, while the DSP was in decline. Strings resigned from the party and stood in October 1922 Hitler. The DSP was dissolved in the fall of 1922, numerous members, including Julius Streicher, Charles Wood and Wilhelm Grimm, switched to the NSDAP.

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