Eduard Stadtler (February 17, 1886 in
Hagenau
Haguenau (; Alsatian: or ; and historically in English: ''Hagenaw'') is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of France, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
It is second in size in the Bas-Rhin only to Strasbourg, some to the south. To the n ...
– October 5, 1945 in
NKVD special camp Nr. 7) was a German journalist and nationalist politician who formed the
Anti-Bolshevist League
The Anti-Bolshevist League ( German: Antibolschewistische Liga), later the League for the Protection of German Culture (Liga zum Schutze der deutschen Kultur), was a short-lived German far-right organization that initially opposed the November R ...
in 1918. Stadler had begun advocating the creation of a "national socialist" dictatorship in 1918.
Stadtler had been a member of the
German National People's Party
The German National People's Party (german: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative party in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the Nazi Party, it was the major conservative and nationalist party in Wei ...
(DNVP) until 1933 when he defected to the Nazi Party weeks prior to the DNVP being dissolved.
[Hermann Beck. ''The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: the Machtergreifung in a New Light''. First Paperback Edition. Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 246.]
After the Second World War ended, he was arrested by the Soviet
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
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and died in the NKVD special camp Nr. 7.
References
External links
"NKVD special camp Nr. 7 (museum)" managed by the Foundation of Memorials in Brandenburg
1886 births
1945 deaths
People from Haguenau
People from Alsace-Lorraine
German National People's Party politicians
Nazi Party politicians
German male journalists
German military personnel of World War I
People who died in NKVD special camp Nr. 7
German male writers
20th-century German journalists
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