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Dietrich Eckart ( German: [ˈɛkaʁt]; 23 March 1868 – 26 December 1923) was a German völkisch poet, playwright, journalist, publicist, and political activist who was one of the founders of the German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, the original ...
Dietrich Eckart was born in Neumarkt, Germany (near Nuremberg) in 1868 as the son of a royal notary and law counselor. His mother died when he was ten years old; seventeen years later, in 1895, his father died as well, leaving him a considerable amount of money that Eckart nevertheless used up soon.
Jan 28, 2023 · One such influence was Dietrich Eckart, a poet who guided many of the future dictator's beliefs and actions and helped mold the Hitler that would eventually lead the Nazi Party. Yet as the years passed, the former playwright grew to disagree with the Nazi leader's methods. Eckart's turn to fascism. Karl Bauer.
Feb 23, 2024 · Dietrich Eckart died in December 1923, 10 years before the Nazis took power. But his association with the early leaders of the Party was so influential that Hitler dedicated part of Mein Kampf to him, and an SS contingent wore an armband bearing Eckart’s name as a badge of honor.
May 22, 2015 · Dietrich Eckart was a central figure in the early days of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a wealthy nationalistic poet who was frequently seen at the side of Adolf Hitler before his death in 1923.
Nov 3, 2008 · Hitler's Mentor: Dietrich Eckart, His Life, Times, & Milieu. Early associates such as Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Hermann Esser all claimed that Hitler revered alcoholic playwright Dietrich...
DIETRICH ECKART should rank alongside of Alfred Rosenberg and Houston Stewart Chamberlain as a National Socialist ideologist, but he remains the forgotten man despite the plethora of titles written on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich.
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