Karl Harrer, the first leader of the German Workers Party (later Nazi Party)
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Four people founded the Germans
Four people founded the Germans Workers Party, later the Nazi Party. One of those four was Karl Harrer. Like three of the other four, he was not a worker but the German Workers Party was not designed for the workers but as an instrument of the Thule Society in order to promote the aims of its wealthy membership.
Karl Harrer was born on 8 November 1880 in Beilngries.
In 1913, Harrer joined the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment. On 24 September 1914, Harrer was hit at Vermandovillers. The unit rolls mark him as being seriously wounded which put him out of action for the rest of the war.
Harrer got a job as a sports journalist at the Münchner-Augsburger Abendzeitung which appears to have brought him into contact with some people on the occult believing, racist right.
In the Munich region at this time, there existed a secret organisation which believed in the occult, Greek and Norse myths, all knitted together with anti Semitism. This was the Thule Society, founded on 17 August 1918 . It was an organisation of wealthy people, a drinking club with a talk, for people who saw all societies ills as being related to the influence of Jews, and what they saw as disintegration of their traditional values which included nationalism and keeping working class people in their place.
The Thule Society had the financial resources to purchase the Munchener Beobachter newspaper . As editor, it hired Karl Harrer from the Munchener – Augsburger Abendzeitung.
The society sought to emulate the communists and was prepared to finance and support workers cells in shop floors with ideology that would match their own. Anton Drexler, a toolmaker in the Royal Bavarian State Railway Central Workshop in Munich, had already shown some organisational ability in promoting nationalist causes amongst fellow workers. He was recruited by Harrer to form what was called the Political Workers Circle. Meetings were held with Harrer usually being the speaker, talking about such subjects as How the war started, how we could have won the war, Germany’s biggest foes the Jews and such. Attendance was usually three to seven people!
Maybe it was Drexler, or maybe it was Harrer or someone else in the Thule Society that chose to form the German Workers’ Party on 5 January 1919. The initial founding members were Drexler and Harrer, playright Dietrich Eckart and businessman Gottfried Feber. Of the 24 original members, most of them were Drexler’s workmates from the railway workshop. Harrer was to be the chair of the party whist Drexler boss of the Munich branch of the party.
The Thule Society was designed as a secret society and this was the aim of the DAP as far as it was concerned. The organisation was reported to the army and Hitler was sent to spy on it.
Instead of spying on the DAP, Hitler started a shouting match with another visitor and as a result was asked to join the party. Karl Harrer had the plan to run the DAP like a secret society based on the model of the Thule Society. In this way, it would operate like the communists did. This clashed with the intentions of Adolf Hitler who referred to it in Mein Kampf as club society at its worst. Hitler said that the party should reach the masses and Drexler, who up until then had been the usefull tool of the Thule Society agreed. One of Hitler’s ideas was that of advertising future events. On 16 October 1919, an advertisement appeared in the Völkischer Beobachterwhich the Munchener Beobachter und Sportblatt was now called. This advertised a meeting of the German Workers Party for the first time.
The advertisement announced that a meeting was to be held in the Hofbräuhauskeller, on Wiener Platz in Munich on 19 October 1919. This attracted 111 people. The main speaker was the then relatively well-known Dr. Erich Kühn who was then the editor of the magazine "Deutschlands Erneuerung" and had previously worked for a company in Görlitz. The second speaker was Hitler. Hitler had spoken publicly before – but to soldiers and that had little effect on them. However in this public speech, Hitler let his fanaticism run wild, something he could not do in the army. The audience was apparently enthralled. The effect on the audience made him happy, because it confirmed that he could speak, cast a spell over an audience and carry them away with him.
On 5 January 1920, the first anniversary of the founding of the party, Harrer resigned. The party chairmanship was subsequently transferred to Drexler.
As far as I am aware, Harrer took no further part in the activities of the by then Nazi party. He died of natural causes on 5 September 1926 in Munich, unaware of the monster that he, to no small degree, helped create.
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Karl Harrer was born on 8 November 1880 in Beilngries.
In 1913, Harrer joined the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment. On 24 September 1914, Harrer was hit at Vermandovillers. The unit rolls mark him as being seriously wounded which put him out of action for the rest of the war.
Harrer got a job as a sports journalist at the Münchner-Augsburger Abendzeitung which appears to have brought him into contact with some people on the occult believing, racist right.
In the Munich region at this time, there existed a secret organisation which believed in the occult, Greek and Norse myths, all knitted together with anti Semitism. This was the Thule Society, founded on 17 August 1918 . It was an organisation of wealthy people, a drinking club with a talk, for people who saw all societies ills as being related to the influence of Jews, and what they saw as disintegration of their traditional values which included nationalism and keeping working class people in their place.
The Thule Society had the financial resources to purchase the Munchener Beobachter newspaper . As editor, it hired Karl Harrer from the Munchener – Augsburger Abendzeitung.
The society sought to emulate the communists and was prepared to finance and support workers cells in shop floors with ideology that would match their own. Anton Drexler, a toolmaker in the Royal Bavarian State Railway Central Workshop in Munich, had already shown some organisational ability in promoting nationalist causes amongst fellow workers. He was recruited by Harrer to form what was called the Political Workers Circle. Meetings were held with Harrer usually being the speaker, talking about such subjects as How the war started, how we could have won the war, Germany’s biggest foes the Jews and such. Attendance was usually three to seven people!
Maybe it was Drexler, or maybe it was Harrer or someone else in the Thule Society that chose to form the German Workers’ Party on 5 January 1919. The initial founding members were Drexler and Harrer, playright Dietrich Eckart and businessman Gottfried Feber. Of the 24 original members, most of them were Drexler’s workmates from the railway workshop. Harrer was to be the chair of the party whist Drexler boss of the Munich branch of the party.
The Thule Society was designed as a secret society and this was the aim of the DAP as far as it was concerned. The organisation was reported to the army and Hitler was sent to spy on it.
Instead of spying on the DAP, Hitler started a shouting match with another visitor and as a result was asked to join the party. Karl Harrer had the plan to run the DAP like a secret society based on the model of the Thule Society. In this way, it would operate like the communists did. This clashed with the intentions of Adolf Hitler who referred to it in Mein Kampf as club society at its worst. Hitler said that the party should reach the masses and Drexler, who up until then had been the usefull tool of the Thule Society agreed. One of Hitler’s ideas was that of advertising future events. On 16 October 1919, an advertisement appeared in the Völkischer Beobachterwhich the Munchener Beobachter und Sportblatt was now called. This advertised a meeting of the German Workers Party for the first time.
The advertisement announced that a meeting was to be held in the Hofbräuhauskeller, on Wiener Platz in Munich on 19 October 1919. This attracted 111 people. The main speaker was the then relatively well-known Dr. Erich Kühn who was then the editor of the magazine "Deutschlands Erneuerung" and had previously worked for a company in Görlitz. The second speaker was Hitler. Hitler had spoken publicly before – but to soldiers and that had little effect on them. However in this public speech, Hitler let his fanaticism run wild, something he could not do in the army. The audience was apparently enthralled. The effect on the audience made him happy, because it confirmed that he could speak, cast a spell over an audience and carry them away with him.
On 5 January 1920, the first anniversary of the founding of the party, Harrer resigned. The party chairmanship was subsequently transferred to Drexler.
As far as I am aware, Harrer took no further part in the activities of the by then Nazi party. He died of natural causes on 5 September 1926 in Munich, unaware of the monster that he, to no small degree, helped create.
Production of independent researched history is time consuming and expensive. Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Patreon: alanheath
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