Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.

The German Workers ' Party was the precedent to the Nazi Party, and Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

Drexler was also a member of a völkisch political club for affluent members of Munich society known as the Thule Society.

His membership in the NSDAP ended when it was temporarily outlawed in 1923 following the Beer Hall Putsch, in which Drexler had not taken part.

The term clanking replicator was used by Drexler, is informal and is rarely used by others in popular or technical discussions.

The Institute was founded in 1986 by K. Eric Drexler, no longer with the Institute, along with his then wife Christine Peterson, who is now President.

He was an outspoken critic of the idea of molecular assemblers, as advocated by K. Eric Drexler and introduced scientific objections to them.

The DAP was founded in Munich in the hotel " Fürstenfelder Hof " on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler, a member of the occultist Thule Society.

Drexler was encouraged to found the DAP by his mentor, Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-Germanist Union ), a director of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, also a member of the Thule Society, and his wish was for a party which was both in touch with the masses and nationalist, unlike the middle class parties.

Following this incident, Anton Drexler was impressed with Hitler's oratory skills and invited him to join the party.

The term grey goo was coined by nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation, stating that " We cannot afford certain types of accidents.

The term was first used by molecular nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation ( 1986 ).

In 2005, a computer-animated short film of the nanofactory concept was produced by John Burch, in collaboration with Drexler.

The technique of moving single atoms mechanically was proposed by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book The Engines of Creation.

In the same year, Feder, together with Anton Drexler, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer, was also involved in the founding of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (" German worker's party ," DAP ), which would later change its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, more commonly known as the Nazi party.

In February 1920, together with Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler, Feder — who also was a member of the Thule Society — drafted the so-called " 25 points " which summed up the party's views, and introduced his own anti-capitalist views into the program.

Harrer was also a member of the Thule Society, which gave him the task of founding a " Politischer Arbeiterzirkel " (" political workers ' union "), an order he carried out together with Anton Drexler in October 1918.

On January 5, 1919, the DAP was formed, in which not only Harrer and Drexler but also Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart were involved.

The Encyclopedia was written by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, with Debbie Mirek, and illustrated by Doug Drexler.

Margot Elisabeth Dreschel also spelled Drechsler, or Drexler, ( May 17, 1908, Neugersdorf – June 1945, Bautzen ) was a prison guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Drexler, who worked closely with Eaves during the creation of the CGI mesh, was allowed to deal with the closer details of the model, such as the position of the shuttlebay.

Technological visionaries such as Eric Drexler and Ralph Merkle, both of whom receive an honorary mention in The Diamond Age, have argued that if nanotechnology develops the ability to manipulate individual atoms at will, it will become possible to simply assemble diamond structures from carbon atoms, materials also known as diamondoids.

Drexler, without thought of his own safety, on seeing that the charge of powder for the left gun was ignited, jumped for the right charge and endeavored to put it in the immersion tank.

On 5 January 1919 Anton Drexler, who had developed links between the Thule Society and various extreme right workers ' organizations in Munich, together with the Thule Society's Karl Harrer, established the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), or German Workers ' Party.

In 1919, Eckart, Gottfried Feder, and Anton Drexler founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( German Workers ' Party ), which became the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( NSDAP-" National Socialist German Workers ' Party "); that is, the Nazi Party.

The Austrian monarchist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn proposed that the 25-point Program was pro-labour: “ the program championed the right to employment, and called for the institution of profit sharing, confiscation of war profits, prosecution of userers and profiteers, nationalization of trusts, communalization of department stores, extension of the old-age pension system, creation of a national education program of all classes, prohibition of child labour, and an end to the dominance of investment capital .” Whereas historian William Brustein proposes that said program points, and party founder Anton Drexler ’ s statements, indicate that the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) originated as a working-class political party.

* Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ) — The German Workers ' Party was formed in 1919, by Anton Drexler with Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer, and derived in part from the Thule Society, the cover organization of the occult ariosophist Germanenorden.

( Note: in our history, the original founder of the then-fringe German Nazi Party — later ousted by Hitler — was named Anton Drexler.

By this time, Adolf Hitler had assumed the title of Führer of the Nazi Party, replacing Anton Drexler who had been known as the more democratically elected Party Chairman.

When Adolf Hitler replaced Anton Drexler as the leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler began calling himself by the title of Führer, thus establishing the first formal Nazi Party titles.

Dresser is an analog to Anton Drexler, the founder of the Nazi Party.

After unsuccessful challenges to his growing power, both men resigned from the party, Harrer in 1920 and Drexler in 1923.

Drexler approached Hitler and thrust a booklet into his hand.

In Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of alternate history novels, the character Anthony Dresser appears to be based on Drexler.

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

* 1884 – Anton Drexler, German political figure ( d. 1942 )

MNT nanofacturing is popularly linked with the idea of swarms of coordinated nanoscale robots working together, a popularization of an early proposal by Drexler in his 1986 discussions of MNT, but superseded in 1992.

K. Eric Drexler considers an accidental " grey goo " scenario extremely unlikely and says so in later editions of Engines of Creation.

In light of this perception of potential danger, the Foresight Institute ( founded by K. Eric Drexler to prepare for the arrival of future technologies ) has drafted a set of guidelines for the ethical development of nanotechnology.

" Drexler's colleague Ralph Merkle has noted that, contrary to widespread legend, Drexler never claimed that assembler systems could build absolutely any molecular structure.

In 1992, Drexler published Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, a detailed proposal for synthesizing stiff covalent structures using a table-top factory.

Several researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Richard Smalley ( 1943 – 2005 ), attacked the notion of universal assemblers, leading to a rebuttal from Drexler and colleagues, and eventually to an exchange of letters.

Drexler and colleagues, however, noted that Drexler never proposed universal assemblers able to make absolutely anything, but instead proposed more limited assemblers able to make a very wide variety of things.