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The Völkisch-Social Bloc ("Völkisch-Sozialer Block" or "Völkisch-Sozialer-Block" or "VSB" or "V-S-B") was a right-wing electoral alliance in post World War I Germany. Its philosophy was loosely aligned with that of the NSDAP (
Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...
).Extensive discussion of the VSB and its role, as well as the roles of associated political parties (including the Nazis), in early 1920s German politics, can be found in David Jablonsky's work ''The Nazi Party in Dissolution: Hitler and the Verbotzeit, 1923-1925'' (Routledge, 1989, , 9780714633220).
Anton Drexler Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942) was a German far-right political agitator for the Völkisch movement in the 1920s. He founded the pan-German and anti-Semitic German Workers' Party (DAP), the antecedent of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) ...
was elected in February 1924 to the Bavarian Landtag as a representative of the VSB.
Artur Dinter Artur Dinter (27 June 1876 – 21 May 1948) was a German writer and Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Thuringia. Biography Dinter was born in Mulhouse, in Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (now France) to Josef Dinter, a customs ...
was elected in February 1924 to the Thuringian Landtag as a representative of the VSB. He was expelled from the party in December 1924. Rudolf Jordan was active as a speaker for the VSB by 1924, though he was not a member.


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