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Anton Drexler

1884 - 1942

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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 German Workers' Party (DAP), the pan-German and anti-Semitic antecedent of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Drexler has received more than 1,901,864 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Anton Drexler is the 1,013th most popular politician (down from 771st in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Germany (down from 214th in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Politician.

Anton Drexler was a German politician and a founder of the German Workers' Party, which later became the Nazi Party.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anton Drexler ranks 1,013 out of 19,576Before him are Mohammad Mosaddegh, Asa of Judah, Humayun, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Dzhokhar Dudayev, and Jerry Brown. After him are Frederick III of Denmark, Jiang Qing, Miloš Zeman, Simon of Cyrene, Roderic, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Anton Drexler ranks 11Before him are Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Hideki Tojo, Bronisław Malinowski, Casimir Funk, and Édouard Daladier. After him are Max Brod, Theodor Heuss, Franz Halder, Peter Debye, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Friedrich Bergius. Among people deceased in 1942, Anton Drexler ranks 8Before him are Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, Robert Musil, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, and Bronisław Malinowski. After him are Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lucy Maud Montgomery, William G. Morgan, Richard Willstätter, William Henry Bragg, and Robert Bosch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Drexler ranks 280 out of 7,253Before him are Wilhelm Frick (1877), Lothar Matthäus (1961), Adolf Dassler (1900), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Max Horkheimer (1895), and Friedrich Schlegel (1772). After him are Athanasius Kircher (1602), Klaus Barbie (1913), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), and Maria Sibylla Merian (1647).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Anton Drexler ranks 80Before him are Arnulf of Carinthia (850), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), and Wilhelm Frick (1877). After him are Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Irma Grese (1923), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), and Baldur von Schirach (1907).