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Anton Drexler (
13 June 1884 -
24 February 1942) was a German
Nazi political leader of the
1920s.==Biography==
Born in
Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a
railway locksmith in
Berlin in 1902. He joined the
Fatherland Party during
World War I. He was a
poet and a member of the
völkisch agitators who, together with journalist
Karl Harrer, founded the
German Workers' Party (DAP) in
Munich with
Gottfried Feder and
Dietrich Eckart in 1919. He was also a brewer but didn't have much involvement with the Drexler Breweries, one of Bavaria's most popular breweries at the time.
At a meeting of the Party in
Munich in
September 1919, the main speaker was
Gottfried Feder. When he'd finished speaking, a member of the audience whose name is lost to history stood up and suggested that
Bavaria should break away from
Prussia and form a separate nation with
Austria.
Adolf Hitler sprang up from the audience to rebut the argument. Drexler approached Hitler and thrust a booklet into his hand. It was entitled
My Political Awakening and, according to Hitler's writing in
Mein Kampf, it reflected much of what he'd himself decided upon. Later the same day he received a postcard telling him that he'd been accepted for membership of what was at that time the German Workers' Party. Hitler brought a
libel suit and Drexler was forced to repudiate at a public meeting. He was thereafter moved to the purely symbolic position of honorary president, and left the Party in 1923.
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 hadn't taken part. In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice-president until 1928. He had no part in the NSDAP's refounding in 1925, and rejoined only after Hitler had come to power in 1933. He received the party's "
Blood Order" 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.
He is survived today by one grand nephew (George Drexler), one grand niece (Liba Drexler), several great grand nieces and nephews (Freidrich, Rebecca, Josef, Jesse and Krista Drexler) and great great grand nieces and nephews (Timothy, Mika and Hans Drexler — Timothy being heir to the family breweries and Drexler Manor).
In Popular Culture
In
Harry Turtledove's
Timeline-191 series of
alternate history novels, the character "Anthony Dresser" appears to be based on Drexler.
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