Otto Strasser
Otto Strasser | |
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Strasser delivering a speech soon after his return to West Germany following World War II | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser 10 September 1897 |
| Died | 27 August 1974 (aged 76) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany |
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| Relatives | Gregor Strasser (brother) Bernhard Strasser (brother) |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Occupation | Philosopher, editor, politician |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | German Empire |
| Branch/service | Bavarian Army Freikorps |
| Years of service | 1914–1919 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
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Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser (also German: Straßer, see ß; 10 September 1897 – 27 August 1974) was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi Party. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's more radical wing, whose ideology became known as Strasserism, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant Hitlerite faction. He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler. During his exile and World War II, this group also functioned as a secret opposition group.
Historian Hans Mommsen has commented that Otto Strasser was "in most respects" the intellectual superior of his brother Gregor.