1. Gottfried Feder was a German civil engineer, a self-taught economist, and one of the early key members of the Nazi Party and its economic theoretician.
15 Facts About Gottfried Feder
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Gottfried Feder founded a construction company in 1908 that became particularly active in Bulgaria where it built a number of official buildings.
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Gottfried Feder claimed that he studied financial politics and economics on his own from 1917 onward, but there is no evidence to back up this claim.
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Gottfried Feder developed a hostility towards wealthy bankers during World War I and wrote a "manifesto on breaking the shackles of interest", Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft, in 1919.
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In February 1920, together with Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder drafted the "25 points" which summed up the party's views and introduced his own anti-capitalist views into the program.
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Gottfried Feder took part in the party's Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923.
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Gottfried Feder served until 1936 representing the electoral constituencies of Chemnitz-Zwickau, Leipzig and East Prussia.
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In early 1926, Gottfried Feder played a key role in assisting Hitler to overcome the challenge to his authority presented by the National Socialist Working Association.
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At a meeting of the Working Association in Hanover on 24 January 1926, Gottfried Feder attended, uninvited but as Hitler's representative.
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The draft program was vigorously debated with Gottfried Feder raising objections on various points.
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Gottfried Feder briefly dominated the Nazi Party's official views on financial politics, but after he became chairman of the party's economic council in 1931, his anti-capitalist views led to a great decline in financial support from Germany's major industrialists.
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Gottfried Feder continued to write papers, putting out "Kampf gegen die Hochfinanz" and the antisemitic "Die Juden".
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Gottfried Feder then served as Reichskommissar for Settlement until December 1934.
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Gottfried Feder was a member of Hans Frank's Academy for German Law.
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Gottfried Feder ended up becoming Professor for Settlement Policy at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in December 1936, where he stayed until his death in Murnau, Bavaria, on 24 September 1941.