On 7 December 1924, Strasser won a seat in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei (" German-Völkisch Freedom Party ").

Together with his brother Otto, Strasser founded the Berlin Kampf-Verlag (" Combat Publishing ") arm in March 1926, which published among others the programmatic weekly journal Der Nationale Sozialist (" The National Socialist ") from 1926 until 1930.

In 1925, Strasser founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Nordwest (" Working Group Northwest "), a federation of north and west German NSDAP Gauleiters under his leadership ( with Goebbels as managing director ); it was an instrument to enforce the sociopolitical and economic ideas of the NSDAP left wing.

Strasser has been nominated for Soap Opera Digest Awards for Dorian in various categories in 1986, 1988, 1994, 1995 and 2005, winning in 1996 (" Outstanding Lead Actress " for Dorian ) and 2001 (" Outstanding Female Scene Stealer " for Hecuba ).

Hitler ’ s imprisonment following the failed November 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch " left the party temporarily leaderless, and when the 27-year-old Goebbels joined the party in late 1924 the most important influence on his political development was Gregor Strasser, who became Nazi organizer in northern Germany in March 1924.

Schleicher ′ s hope was that the threat of a split within the Nazi Party with Strasser leading his faction out of the party would force Hitler to support the new government.

Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the ‘ Hitlerite ’ faction.

At a secret meeting of the NSDAP leaders on December 5, 1932, Strasser urged the NSDAP to drop the demand for Hitler to become Chancellor and support Schleicher in exchange for which Schleicher would give the Nazis several cabinet portfolios.

During this time, Goebbels denounced Strasser as the Nazis ' " Public Enemy Number One " and a price of $ 500, 000 was set on his head.

' A similar expansion effort after Strasser took over aimed to build the army to 14, 000, using young criminals, school drop-outs, and semi-literate youths.

Instead, Strasser tired of the political struggle as well as the intense campaigning and took a restorative holiday in Italy.

Strasser took no part in affairs during the Nazi takeover in 1932, and had neither a Party or government position in the new regime.

When Wyndham took over the role from Strasser, the character was a bad girl.

Haushofer came under suspicion because of his contacts with left wing socialist figures within the Nazi movement ( led by Gregor Strasser ) and his advocacy of essentially a German – Russian alliance.

Strasser is seen as a dissenting Nazi regarding racial policies, and he claimed to have actively opposed such within the national socialist movement ( for example, by organizing the removal of Julius Streicher from the Popular Liberty Party ).

Soon however, Strasser became a strong advocate of the socialist wing of the party, arguing that the national revolution should also include strong action to tackle poverty and should seek to build working class support.

Considered more of a radical than his brother, Otto Strasser was expelled by the Nazi Party in 1930 and set up his own dissident group, the Black Front, which called for a specifically German nationalist form of socialist revolution.

Shortly thereafter he joined with Adolph Strasser, later president of the Cigar Makers ' Union, to found the Social Democratic Workingmens Party of North America, a Lassallean socialist organization that proposed to achieve socialism through organization of a socialist party and the organization of trade unions.

Most closely associated the Strasser brothers, Gregor and Otto the " revolutionary socialist " fraction played no important role in the foreign policy of the Third Reich.

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

" Nouvelle Résistance was also a successor to Jean-François Thiriart's Jeune Europe neo-Nazi Europeanist movement of the 1960s, which had participated in the National Party of Europe, along with Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, Otto Strasser and others.

Brüning supported his party's determined opposition to his successor, Franz von Papen, and also of re-establishing a working parliament by cooperation with the National Socialists, negotiating with Gregor Strasser.

Schleicher criticized the current Hitler cabinet, while some of Schleicher ′ s followers — such as General Ferdinand von Bredow and Werner von Alvensleben — started passing along lists of a new Hitler Cabinet in which Schleicher would become Vice-Chancellor, Röhm Minister of Defence, Brüning Foreign Minister and Strasser Minister of National Economy.

* Literature by and about Gregor Strasser in the catalogues of British Library ( see ), Library of Congress ( see ), National Library of Germany ( see )

Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser ( 10 September 1897 in Windsheim – 27 August 1974 in Munich ) was a German politician and member of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

*" Otto Strasser and National Socialism ", Paul Gottfried ( from Modern Age ), www. isi. org search, 1969.

The Strasser brothers and Strasserite thought in general has been claimed as belonging to National Bolshevism, which has been influential in Russia and to a lesser extent Germany.

This tendency, although minor, continued into the 1930s when it became associated with the National Socialist Combat Movement, a dissident breakaway movement from the Nazi Party which espoused left-wing economics and which was led by Hermann Ehrhardt, Otto Strasser and Walther Stennes.

The young soldiers formed the Chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as their leader and Head of State of Sierra Leone.

They also participated in 1962 Conference at Venice, where they agreed to participate in the National Party of Europe, along with Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, Otto Strasser and others.

Since this went too far for the Centre's national leadership, the negotiations were transferred to the national level, where Heinrich Brüning conferred with Gregor Strasser.

At another meeting of Nazi Party leaders, Hitler denounced Strasser and threatened suicide if more Nazi leaders followed Strasser.

An actor, singer and former boyband member, Farmer was much more high-energy than Strasser and was a skilled carpenter in his own right.

Both Strasser and Farmer had considerable difficulty letting guests lose prizes ; on more than one occasion, they would offer " hints " so obvious that they essentially gave the prize away.

Strasser established the NSDAP in northern and western Germany as a strong political association which quickly attained a higher membership than Hitler's southern party section.

Strasser continued acting as a publicist as he did before his disempowerment.

According to historian Ian Kershaw, " the leaders of the SA included Gregor Strasser did not have another vision of the future of Germany or another politic to propose.

Strasser did not live to see the end of the war.

Hitler continued to refer to corporatism in propaganda, but it was not put into place, even though a number of Nazi officials such as Walther Darré, Gottfried Feder, Alfred Rosenburg, and Gregor Strasser were in favour of a neo-medievalist form of corporatism, since corporations had been influential in German history in the medieval era.

Placed in charge of the party office in Lower Bavaria by Strasser from late 1924, he was responsible for integrating the area's membership with the NSDAP under Hitler when the party was re-founded in February 1925.

A masterstroke was to claim that Gregor Strasser, whom Hitler hated, was part of the planned conspiracy against him.

Funk, who was a nationalist and anti-Marxist, resigned from the newspaper in the summer of 1931 and joined the Nazi Party, becoming close to Gregor Strasser, who arranged his first meeting with Adolf Hitler.

As part of his attempt to blackmail Hitler into supporting his government, Schleicher went through the motions of attempting to found the Querfront by reaching out to the Social Democratic labour unions, the Christian labor unions and the left-wing branch of the Nazi Party, led by Gregor Strasser.

Schleicher, who was unaware of how Hitler had bested Strasser, told his Cabinet on December 7, 1932 that he would soon have the support the Nazi deputies in the Reichstag, which together with the Zentrum and some of the smaller parties would give his presidential government a majority in the Reichstag.

On December 8, 1932, Strasser resigned as head of the NSDAP ′ s organizational department in protest against Hitler ′ s strategy of opposing every government not headed by himself.

At the same time, Schleicher let it be known to Hitler that he offered Strasser the Vice-Chancellorship.

Hitler ′ s speech had the desired effect and Strasser was left alone in the party.

After the refoundation of the NSDAP by Adolf Hitler on 26 February 1925, Strasser became the first Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate.

The Strasser brothers ruled the Berlin party organization unchallenged and developed an independent ideological profile from the south German party wing around Adolf Hitler.

The programmatic and personal rivalry with Adolf Hitler worsened dramatically when Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher offered Strasser the offices of Vice-Chancellor and Prime Minister of Prussia in December 1932.

Hitler seized upon this opportunity to remove all Party officials loyal to Strasser.

* Gregor Strasser, CBS mini-series " Hitler: The Rise of Evil ", 2003, directed by Christian Duguay ( born 1957 in Montreal )

Some of these policies were opposed by Hitler, who thought they were too radical and too alienating from parts to the German people ( middle class and some Nazi-supporting nationalist industrialists in particular ), and the Strasser faction was defeated at the Bamberg Conference ( 1926 ), with Joseph Goebbels joining Hitler.

In addition to the " Black Front ", Strasser at this time headed the Free German Movement outside Germany which sought to enlist the aid of Germans throughout the world in bringing about the downfall of Hitler and Nazism.