german workers went on strike in 1923 because of passive resistance.
german workers went on strike in 1923 because of passive resistance.
why did german workers go on strike in 1923?
passive resistance
during the german occupation in 1918, rosenberg served as a teacher at the gustav adolf gymnasium. he gave his first speech on jewish marxism on 30 november, at the house of the blackheads, after the outbreak of the estonian war of independence. he emigrated to germany with the retreating imperial army, along with max scheubner-richter, who served as something of a mentor to rosenberg and to his ideology. arriving in munich, he contributed to dietrich eckart's publication, the "völkischer beobachter" ("ethnic/nationalist observer"). by this time, he was both an antisemite – influenced by houston stewart chamberlain's book "the foundations of the nineteenth century", one of the key proto-nazi books of racial theory – and an anti-bolshevik. rosenberg became one of the earliest members of the german workers' party – later renamed the national socialist german workers' party, better known as the nazi party – joining in january 1919, eight months before adolf hitler joined in september. according to some historians, rosenberg had also been a member of the thule society, along with eckart, although nicholas goodrick-clarke contends that they were only guests. after the "völkischer beobachter" became the nazi party newspaper in december 1920, rosenberg became its editor, in 1923. rosenberg was a leading member of aufbau vereinigung, reconstruction organisation, a conspiratorial organisation of white russian émigrés which had a critical influence on early nazi policy.
alfred rosenberg
in the autumn of 1918 sebottendorff attempted to extend the appeal of the thule society's nationalist ideology to people from a working-class background. he entrusted the munich sports reporter karl harrer with the formation of a workers' club, called the "deutscher arbeiterverein" ('german workers' club') or "politischer arbeiterzirkel" ('political workers' ring'). the most active member of this club was anton drexler. drexler urged the foundation of a political party, and on 5 january 1919 the deutsche arbeiterpartei (dap, german workers' party) was formally founded. when adolf hitler first encountered the dap on 12 september 1919, sebottendorff had already left the thule society (in june 1919). by the end of february 1920, hitler had transformed the "deutsche arbeiterpartei" into the "nationalsozialistische deutsche arbeiterpartei" (nsdap or national socialist german workers’ party). apparently, meetings of the thule society continued until 1923. a certain johannes hering kept a diary of these meetings; it mentions the attendance of other nazi leaders between 1920 and 1923, but not hitler.
religious aspects of nazism