Friedrich-Georg "Fritz" Thielen (25 September 1916 – 11 June 1993) was a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the German Party, the Gesamtdeutsche Partei and the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). Thielen was born in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

and after working as a

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operator in Germany and in brickyards in occupied

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, Thielen became a soldier in 1943 until the end of

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. After the war he became a successful businessman in the building trade in Bremen.R. Eatwell, ''Fascism: A History'', London: Pimlico, 2003, p. 280 He joined the CDU in 1946 and became a leading figure locally before decamping to join the German Party in 1958, becoming one of its leading figures.D. Childs, 'The Far-Right in Germany since 1945', L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan, ''Neo-Fascism in Europe'', Harlow: Longman, 1992, p. 73 In this capacity he merged his party into the newly formed NPD and became the first leader of the party. Replaced by

Adolf von Thadden Adolf von Thadden (7 July 1921 – 16 July 1996) was a German far-right politician. Born into a leading Pomeranian landowning family, he was the half-brother of Elisabeth von Thadden, a prominent critic of the Nazis who was executed by the Nazi g ...

in 1967 he left the NPD and reactivated the German Party locally, with little success.

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