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Refounded NSDAP ( Feb 1925 )

no 20 rank 6 No 20. Wilhelm Holzwarth Wilhelm Holzwarth	no 21 rank 5 unknown? un-named?	no 22 rank 4 No 22. Joseph Goebbels Joseph Goebbels	no 23 rank 3 No 23. Hermann Göring Hermann Göring	no 24 rank 2 No 24. Crown Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia Crown prince Wilhelm	no 1 rank 1 No 1. Adolf Hitler No 1. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler	no 2 rank 24 No 2. Hermann Esser Hermann Esser	no 3 rank 23 No 3. Max Amann Max Amann	no 4 rank 22 No 4. Rudolf Buttmann Rudolf Buttmann	no 5 rank 21 No 5. Arthur Dinter Arthur Dinter	no 6 rank 20 No 6. Franz Xaver Schwarz Franz Xaver Schwarz
no 18 rank 8 No 18. Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg	no 17 rank 9 No 17. Julius Streicher Julius Streicher	no 16 rank 10 No 16. Rudolf Heß Rudolf Hess	no 15 rank 11 No 15. Christian Weber Christian Weber	no 14 rank 12 No 14. Hans Frank Hans Frank	no 13 rank 13 No 13. Otto May Otto May	no 12 rank 14 No 12. Phillip Bouhler Phillip Bouhler	no 11 rank 15 No 11. Gottfried Feder Gottfried Feder	no 10 rank 16 No 10. Wilhelm Frick Wilhelm Frick	no 9 rank 17 No 9. Gregor Strasser Gregor Strasser	no 8 rank 18 No 8. Ulrich Graf Ulrich Graf

NSDAP membership 1 to 24, (February 1925)

NSDAP no: 1 ranked 1st

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Adolf Hitler: Author: Mein Kampf (political manifesto). Politician: Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei NSDAP) known as Nazi Party. Absolute dictator of Germany, 1934 to 1945. German Chancellor, 1933 to 1945. German Head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler), 1934 to 1945.

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NSDAP no: 2 ranked 24th		Hermann Esser: Publisher: Mein Kampf. First head of propaganda (1923-1925). Floor leader in Munich's city council (1929-1933). Elected to Reichstag representing Upper Bavaria-Swabia (1933). Bavaria's minister of economics, after persuading General Franz Ritter von Epp. A public speaker of extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism, he roused his audiences to attack the political meetings of those NSDAP frowned upon. Not at Beer Hall Putsch.
NSDAP no: 3 ranked 23rd		Max Amann: Business manager (1921). Reich Press Chamber President. Led the NSDAP publishing house, Eher Verlag (1922), inc; SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps. Elected NSDAP candidate to Munich city council (1924). Elected NSDAP member of the Reichstag for Upper Bavaria/Swabia (1933). By 1942, Amann controlled 80% of all German newspapers through his publishing empire. During World War I he had rank of Feldwebel in the Royal Bavarian 16th Infantry Regiment, as Adolf Hitler's company sergeant.
NSDAP no: 4 ranked 22nd	(image-de)	Rudolf Buttmann: NSDAP Chairman 1925-1933. Reich Leadership 1932-1933. Reichstag 1933-1945. Previous member of National Liberal Party. Co-founded German National People's Party (DNVP) (1919-1922), Elected to the Bavarian Landtag for (DVB), (1924-1933). Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Transport (1932-1933). Buttmann aspired to the office of Bavarian Prime Minister in a coalition government of the NSDAP with the Bavarian People's Party. After 30 January 1933, with Ernst Röhm, Adolf Wagner and Hans Schemm, advocated a revolutionary takeover of power in Bavaria.
NSDAP no: 5 ranked 21st		Artur Dinter: NSDAP State Leader Thuringia, appointed by Hitler from Landsberg Prison (1924). NB: Only State not to ban the Nazi Party after the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich (in 1923).. Elected as Leader of Thuringian Landtag faction of the (electoral alliance) Völkisch-Sozialer Block ("Peoples Social Bloc"),(in 1924). Expelled from the VSB party (in 1924). Hitler appointed him Landesleiter, later re-designated Gauleiter, of Thuringia, (1925). Publisher of Der National sozialist. Co-founder of the Deutsch-Völkische Freiheitspartei, ("German- Peoples Freedom Party"). Leader and co-founder of Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (1919 banned 1922).
NSDAP no: 6 ranked 20th		Franz Xaver Schwarz: NSDAP National Treasurer; financial - administrative functions (1925–1945). Head of Reichszeugmeisterei or ("National Material Control Office"). Negotiated purchase of NSDAP headquarters, the Brown House at 45 Brienner Straße in Munich, (1930). Elected to the Reichstag representing Franconia, (1933-1945). Reichsleiter (Reich Leader - second highest NSDAP political rank), joining the Schutzstaffel, (SS member# 38,500), as SS-Obergruppenführer, (1933). Promoted to new rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, (one of only four to ever hold that rank), (1942). A Fundraiser for Mein Kampf. At Beer Hall Putsch with Hitler.
NSDAP no: 7 ranked 19th		NSDAP Member number 7, Ranked at 19th (is Not named to date). NSDAP Member number 19, Ranked at 7th (is Not named to date).
NSDAP no: 8 ranked 18th		Ulrich Graf: Hitler's Bodyguard. Member of German Workers' Party (DAP), (1919), renamed NSDAP when taken over by Hitler. Early member of SA - Sturmabteilung (Brown shirts - Storm troopers), (founded 1920), first paramilitary protection squad used to protect NSDAP officials, and keep order at NASDAP Party (and at rivals) meetings. Hitler's personal bodyguard, from the Stoßtrupp-Hitler unit, (from 1923). With Hitler at Beer Hall Putsch, throwing himself on Hitler taking five bullets, (1925). Elected Councillor in Munich, (1924 & 1929 & 1935). Sturmbannführer in the SS, (1933). Elected to Reichstag, (1933).
NSDAP no: 9 ranked 17th		Gregor Strasser: NSDAP: National Leader for Propaganda, (1926-1927). Member Freikorps, (to suppress Communism in Bavaria), (1919), taken over by Hitler and NSDAP, (1920). Established and commanded Sturmbataillon Niederbayern ("Storm Battalion Lower Bavaria"), with Heinrich Himmler as his adjutant. Member of SA, as Regional Head of Sturmabteilung ("Storm Detachment"; SA) in Lower Bavaria, (1922). With Hitler at Beer Hall Putsch, imprisoned, but released early after being elected member of the Bavarian Landtag for the NSDAP-associated "Völkischer Block". Sat for "völkisch" National Socialist Freedom Movement in the Reichstag, for Westphalia North (1924). Strasser and his assistant Heinrich Himmler, expanding the NSDAP organization in Lower Bavaria. First Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria (1925). After the partition of this Gau, he was Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria (1928-1929). Deputized (by Hitler) to represent NSDAP, travelling throughout N&W Germany appointing Gauleiters, setting up party branches, and delivering speeches, (1925). National Leader for Propaganda, (1926-1927). Founded; Berlin Kampf-Verlag ("Combat Publishing") appointing Joseph Goebbels managing editor, (1926). Executed at Night of the Long Knives, ordered by Hitler, Göring and Himmler, (1934).
NSDAP no: 10 ranked 16th		Wilhelm Frick: NSDAP: parliamentary group leader (Fraktionsführer) (in 1928). NSDAP: Reich Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, (1933-1943). until replaced by Heinrich Himmler (1943), but remained as a cabinet minister without portfolio (until 1945). Together with Reichstag President Göring, he was one of only two Nazi Reich Ministers in the original Hitler Cabinet. Head of the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police) in Munich. Appointed Prussian Minister of the Interior under Minister-President Göring, to control all of the Prussian police, (1934). With Hitler at the Beer Hall Putsch. Last Governor of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. With Strasser, he formulated the Gleichschaltung laws, Nazi racial policy, and also the notorious Nuremberg Laws.
NSDAP no: 11 ranked 15th		Gottfried Feder: NSDAP Party Leader elected to the Reichstag, (demanding the dispossession of Jewish citizens).(1924-1936). Leader of the anti-capitalistic wing of NSDAP, who published "Das Programm der NSDAP und seine weltanschaulichen Grundlagen" ("The programme of the NSDAP and its ideological foundations” 1927). NSDAP Chairman of Economic Council (1931). With Hitler at the Beer Hall Putsch.
NSDAP no: 12 ranked 14th		Phillip Bouhler: NSDAP Deputy Manager (1922). Reich Secretary (1925). NSDAP: Reichsleiter (National Leader), appointed by Hitler, (second highest NSDAP political rank), (1933). Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. Elected to Reichstag for Westphalia, (1933). Joined SS as a Gruppenführer, (1933). Promoted to SS- Obergruppenführer, (1936). Police President of Munich, and Chief of Adolf Hitler's Chancellery,(1934-1945). Responsible for all correspondence for Hitler, and all his private and internal communications. Much of his functions were absorbed by the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) under Martin Bormann, (1944). The SS official responsible for the Aktion T4 euthanasia program; (250,000+ disabled adults and children), also co-initiator (with Heinrich Himmler) of Aktion 14f13 euthanasia program; (15,000–20,000+ concentration camp prisoners).
NSDAP no: 13 ranked 13th		Otto May Pioneer of Propaganda – The Kulmbacher Otto May and the foundation of Nazi propaganda. NB: See Also: de:Category:History of Kulmbach County, RE; area of the Principality of Bayreuth, previously ruled by Hohenzollerns. RE: Categories, History of Upper Franconia. History of Bavaria. RE: de:Amtshauptmannschaft Kulmbach.
NSDAP no: 14 ranked 12th		Hans Frank: NSDAP's official Lawyer. Adolf Hitler's personal legal adviser. Elected to Reichstag, (1930). Minister of Justice for Bavaria, (1933). NSDAP Reichsleiter, (second highest Nazi political rank, (1933). Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories, as Head of the General Government in Poland, (1939-1945). Head of NSDAP Legal Affairs Department.. Joined Hitler Cabinet as Reich Minister without portfolio, (1934). Instituted a reign of terror against civilian population, the mass murder of Jews. the use of forced labour, and oversaw four of the extermination camps. Head of the General Government, (until 1945). With Hitler at the Beer Hall Putsch.
NSDAP no: 15 ranked 11th		Christian Weber: A Bar bouncer, one of the earliest political associates of Adolf Hitler. With the Nazis who attacked a Bavarian League meeting, where Hitler hit the League's leader Otto Ballerstedt, (1921). With Hitler at the Beer Hall putsch. Appointed Gauleiter and a City Councilman in Munich, (boss of the city), (from 1933). By his corruption, owned a number of hotels, villas, petrol stations, a brewery, city racecourse and bus service, also a home in the Munich Residenz. At the Night of the Long Knives, was with the SS men who travelled to Bad Wiessee to purge the (SA) leadership, (1934). For reward, Hitler personally promoted him to SS-Oberführer. On Kristallnacht, led the SS to Planegg, to ransack the estate of Jewish nobleman Baron Rudolf Hirsch, before passing the estate into his own possession.
NSDAP no: 16 ranked 10th		Rudolf Hess: Hitlers Private Secretary and Personal Adjutant, (1925-1929). Joined Nazi Party, (1920). Member; Thule Society, (an antisemitic right-wing Völkisch group), and Freikorps. Joined Sturmabteilung (SA) organising and recruiting its early membership, (1922). At Hitler's side at Munich Beer Hall Putsch; ("to seize control of Bavarian government"). With Hitler in prison assisting him with Mein Kampf, (1923). Private secretary to Hitler, (1925) Personal adjutant to Hitler, (1929). Head of Party Liaison Staff. Chairman of Party Central Political Commission, (1932). Reichsleiter. Obergruppenführer in Schutzstaffel (SS), (1933). Deputy Führer, (1933-1941). Reichsminister without portfolio, (responsible for foreign affairs, finance, health, education and law, from the NSDAP HQ; Brown House, Munich and from Berlin). (1933-1941). Signed government legislation of the Nuremberg Laws, into law, (stripping German Jews of rights, pre-Holocaust), (1935). Cabinet Council, (1938). Council of Ministers for Defence of the Reich, (1939). Hitler decreed Hermann Göring as his official successor, and Hess as next in line. (outbreak of war, 1939). Wrote / co-signed Hitler's decrees. Organised Nuremberg Rallies, (giving opening speech and introducing Hitler). Flew to Scotland and was imprisoned, (1941-1987).
NSDAP no: 17 ranked 9th		Julius Streicher: Gauleiter of Nordbayern, (1925-1928). Gauleiter of Nuremberg-Fürth, (1928-1929). Gauleiter of Gau Franconia, Bavaria, (1929-1940). Member of the antisemitic (German Nationalist Protection and Defence Federation), (1919). Founded the Deutschsozialistische Partei (German Socialist Party, DSP), branch in Nuremberg, (with branches in Düsseldorf, Kiel, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden and Munich), (1919). Left DSP to join Nazi Party, (bringing enough DSP members to almost double the Nazi Party overnight), (1921). Founder of Der Stürmer (to promulgate antisemitic propaganda), (1923). Elected to Bavarian "Landtag", (1924). Nuremberg City Council, (1925). Gauleiter of Nordbayern; in Bavarian regions of Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia, (his home town of Nuremberg, as its capital), (1925). SA then SA-Obergruppenführer, (1937). Ordered the destruction of the Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg on Kristallnacht, (1938). Accused of keeping Jewish property seized after Kristallnacht, and charged with spreading stories about Göring; alleging his daughter Edda was conceived by artificial insemination, (1938). Stripped of party offices, except as Gauleiter, and as Der Stürmer publisher, (but forbidden to be read by staff of Göring), (1940).
NSDAP no: 18 ranked 8th		Alfred Rosenberg: NSDAP, earliest known member, (eight months before Hitler), (1919). After Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler named him NSDAP Leader until his release, (1923). Leader of NSDAP Foreign Policy Office, (1933-1945). Reichsleiter, (1933-1945). NSDAP Commissar for the Supervision of Intellectual and Ideological Education (aka Rosenberg office, (1933-1945). Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, (1941-1945). Nazi Party's chief racial theorist. Author of Nazi ideology; (inc; its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles.) “The Myth of the Twentieth Century.” (1930). At the Volta Conference in Rome. In Nazi uniform, laid a wreath bearing a swastika at the Cenotaph in London, (1933). Head of the NSDAP Hohe Schule; Centre of National Socialist Ideological and Educational Research, from which the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (ERR), looted art and cultural goods, (active in Paris looting art from Jewish families such as Rothschilds and Rosenbergs). Göring used the ERR to collect art for his own private collection, (1940).
NSDAP no: 19 ranked 7th		NSDAP Member number 7, Ranked at 19th is (Not named to date). . NSDAP Member number 19, Ranked at 7th is (Not named to date).
NSDAP no: 20 ranked 6th	[3]	Wilhelm Holzwarth: Member of Bavarian Parliament, (1924-1928). Member of Thule Society. Joined NSDAP, (1920). Group Leader; Founded Scheinfeld NSDAP, a stronghold of the party, and oldest local group in Franconia, (1921). Visited Hitler in Landsberg prison, (1924). Had a secret weapons depot before the Hitler coup, which led to Franconian Nazis acquiring a considerable amount of weapons, (1925). Elected for the Völkische Block (DVB), in the Bavarian state election, (1924). Joined new Bavarian Landtag NSDAP faction, at the re-founding of NSDAP, (1925). Lost his mandate in the May state election, then complained to the Reich leadership and NSDAP Landtag leader; Buttmann. (his loss of office due to a dispute between him and Streicher), (1924-1928). Transferred from the Nazi Group to the Landbund, joined the Tannenbergbundunder, under Erich Ludendorff, (1928). Founder of the Uffenheimer Tageblatt, (1928), as editor, attacked and disclosed revelations about the Nazi Group, and homosexuality of Ernst Röhm and Edmund Heines, (1928-1932), (until its press and printing house were blown up). Due to threatening Nazi letters beforehand, it was likely by the (Bavarian) Uffenheimer SA. (1932). Denounced by NSDAP Supreme Party Court, (1937). He left Bavaria and moved to Windecken near Hanau, he died in Frankfurt am Main. (1941).
NSDAP no: 21 ranked 5th		(Not named to date).
NSDAP no: 22 ranked 4th		Joseph Goebbels: Gauleiter of Berlin, (1926-1945). Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, (1933-1945). Reichsleiter, (1933-1945). Stadtpräsident (Mayor) of Berlin, (1943-1945). Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War, (1944-1945). Chancellor of the German Reich, (2 days, 1945).
NSDAP no: 23 ranked 3rd		Hermann Göring: President of the Reichstag (16th), (1932-1945). Minister President of Prussia, (1933-1945). Reichsstatthalter of Prussia, (1933-1945). Supreme Commander of Luftwaffe, (1935-1945).
NSDAP no: 24 ranked 2nd		Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia: House of Hohenzollern, ruling House of Germany, (1871-1918) Honourable; representative of (the abdicated); Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and King of Prussia. Representative; second in command to supreme leader of Germany, (1914-1918). Representative; joint CIC to supreme commander of their General Staff, Armies, Navy, Airforce, (1914-1918). Member of Reichstags of Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

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