12 Facts About Anton Drexler

Anton Drexler was a German far-right political agitator for the Volkisch movement in the 1920s.

Anton Drexler founded the German Workers' Party, the pan-German and anti-Semitic antecedent of the Nazi Party.

Anton Drexler is believed to have been disappointed with his income, and to have played the zither in restaurants to supplement his earnings.

Anton Drexler did not serve in the armed forces during World War I because he was deemed physically unfit for service.

In March 1918, Anton Drexler founded a branch of the Free Workers' Committee for a Good Peace league.

Together with Harrer, Anton Drexler founded the German Workers' Party in Munich on 5 January 1919.

Anton Drexler approached Hitler and gave him a copy of his pamphlet My Political Awakening.

Anton Drexler was thereafter moved to the purely symbolic position of honorary president.

Anton Drexler was a member of a volkisch political club for affluent members of Munich society known as the Thule Society.

Anton Drexler played no role in the Nazi Party's re-founding in February 1925 and rejoined only after Hitler ascended to national power in 1933.

Anton Drexler received the Nazi Party's Blood Order in 1934, and was still occasionally used as a propaganda tool until about 1937, but was never allowed any power within the party.

Anton Drexler died in Munich in February 1942 after a lengthy illness due to alcoholism.