NSDAP Flashcards
Who was Gustavia Stresemann?
Leader of the DVP
Monarchist at heart but willing to work with republicans
Chancellor in 1923
Introduced new currency
Ended hyperinflation
Forced to step down in Nov 1929
Served as foreign minister from 1923 - 1929
What was the anger from the right?
Stresemann called off passive resistance in the Ruhr ( without French concessions ) leading to :
Bavarias right wing gov declared state of emergency and placed Gustavia Von Kahr as state commissioner
Growing right desire to march on Berlin and establish a dictatorship
Who was Gustavia Von Kahr?
Right wing conservative
Minister - president of Bavaria 1920-1921
Stepped down after central gov disagreements
State commissioner General in 1923
Wanted bavaria to have it’s own monarchy and wanted to use Nazis to achieve it.
President of the Bavarian administrative court until his murder i. 1934
What was the workers party?
Established in 1919
Founded and led by Antonio Drexler
Combined socialist ideas with nationalism
The DAP : Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
Became the NSDAP in 1920
Published a 25 point programme of its beliefs and policies
Who was Adolf Hitler?
Austrian who believed all Germans should be in one Reich
Outraged by the armistice
Sent to spy on German Workers party by the army
1921 became leader of the NSDAP
arrested after the failed Munich Putsch
What was the Munich beer hall Putsch?
With Ludendorff hitler set out to get Von Kahr and Otto Von lossow on his side
8th nov 1923 - Nazis interrupted an address by the 2 to 2000 people.
SA surrounded the building and Hitler declared that the revolution had begun
Kahr and lossow agreed to support
- gun point in a side room -
How did the Putsch fail?
Kahr and lossows support vanished overnight ( along with chances at mass support )
Storm troopers failed to gain control of barracks but Hitler carried on anyway
Gun battle with police led to Hitler getting hit in the shoulder and tried to flee but was captured. Ludendorff allowed himself to be arrested.
Seeckt sent in troops to clean up the mess
Who was the NSDAP?
Anti - sematic
Founded by Locksmith Anton drexler and a group in Jan 1919 who hated the TOV , nations moral standards and changing culture
20,000 which split from the SPD
