<b>The founding of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harzburg_Front" class="extiw" title="en:Harzburg Front">Harzburg Front</a></b> (German: <i>Gründung der <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harzburger_Front" class="extiw" title="de:Harzburger Front">Harzburger Front</a></i>). Photo taken on October 11th, 1931 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Harzburg" class="extiw" title="en:Bad Harzburg">Bad Harzburg</a> showing:<br><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick" class="extiw" title="en:Wilhelm Frick">Wilhelm Frick</a> (1877–1946), Nazi Party Reichstag member, later Reich Minister of the Interior in Hitler's cabinet 1933–45</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" class="extiw" title="en:Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> (1889–1945), Nazi Party leader</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hugenberg" class="extiw" title="en:Alfred Hugenberg">Alfred Hugenberg</a> (1865–1951, in civilian clothes), leading media proprietor, leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" class="extiw" title="en:German National People's Party">German National People's Party</a> (<i>Deutschnationale Volkspartei</i>, DNVP)</li>
<li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Schmidt-Hannover" class="extiw" title="de:Otto Schmidt-Hannover">Otto Schmidt-Hannover</a> (1888–1971), member of the Reichstag and last chairman of the DNVP parliamentary group</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Duesterberg" class="extiw" title="en:Theodor Duesterberg">Theodor Duesterberg</a> (1875–1950), the 2nd Federal Leader of <i>Der Stahlhelm</i></li>
<li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Wagner_(Offizier)" class="extiw" title="de:Siegfried Wagner (Offizier)">Siegfried Wagner|</a> (1881–1944), Federal Chancellor of <i>Der Stahlhelm</i></li></ul><dl><dd>etc.<br></dd></dl><ul><li>The <b>Harzburg Front</b> was a short-lived radical right-wing, anti-democratic political alliance in Weimar Germany, formed as an attempt to present a unified opposition to the government of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. It was a coalition of the national conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" class="extiw" title="en:German National People's Party">German National People's Party</a> (DNVP) under millionaire press-baron <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hugenberg" class="extiw" title="en:Alfred Hugenberg">Alfred Hugenberg</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" class="extiw" title="en:Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_German_Workers%27_Party" class="extiw" title="en:National Socialist German Workers' Party">National Socialist German Workers' Party</a> (<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP" class="extiw" title="de:NSDAP">NSDAP</a>), the leadership of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stahlhelm" class="extiw" title="en:Der Stahlhelm">Der Stahlhelm</a> paramilitary veterans' association, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_League" class="extiw" title="en:Agricultural League">Agricultural League</a>  (<i>Reichs-Landbund</i>) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-German_League" class="extiw" title="en:Pan-German League">Pan-German League</a> (<i>Alldeutscher Verband</i>) organizations. The Front formed on Sunday, 11 October 1931 at a convention of representatives of the varying political groupings styling themselves the "national opposition" at the spa town of  Bad Harzburg in the Free State of Brunswick, where the NSDAP's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Klagges" class="extiw" title="en:Dietrich Klagges">Dietrich Klagges</a> had just been elected State Minister of the Interior. Negotiations between the NSDAP, the DNVP and Stahlhelm over a shared presidential candidate broke down in February 1932.<br></li></ul><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain" class="extiw" title="en:Public domain">Public domain</a> photo according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodowe_Archiwum_Cyfrowe" class="extiw" title="en:Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe">Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe</a>, the national archive of Poland.
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