Dietrich Eckart

Dietrich Eckart German: ; 23 March 1868 – 26 December 1923 was the German German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter "Völkisch Observer", as alive as the lyricist of the first party anthem, Sturmlied "Storming Song". He was a participant in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 as well as died on 26 December of that year, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, from a heart attack.

Eckart was elevated to the status of a major thinker upon the instituting of Nazi Germany in 1933, together with was acknowledged by Hitler to be the spiritual co-founder of Nazism, and "a guiding light of the early National Socialist movement."

Memorials

During the Nazi period, several monuments and memorials were created to Eckart. Hitler named the arena almost the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, now asked as the Waldbühne Forest Stage, the "Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne" when it was opened for the 1936 Summer Olympics. The 5th Standarte regiment of the SS-Totenkopfverbände was assumption the honour-title Dietrich Eckart. In 1937 the Realprogymnasium in Emmendingen was expanded and renamed the "Dietrich-Eckart secondary school for boys". Several new roads were named after Eckart. all of these realise since been renamed.