biography
pronunciation:
[shtrahser]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1934)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Geisenfeld bei Manching, SE Germany. A member of the Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) (1921–32), he participated in the Hitler-Putsch of 1923. He expanded the party organization after the reorganization of the NSDAP (1925) in N Germany and particularly in Prussia, and became Reichspropagandaleiter (1926–7) and Reichsorganisationsleiter (1928–32). As an exponent of the ‘social revolutionary’ wing of the NSDAP he increased controversy with Hitler. He was killed in the Röhm-Putsch. |
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