Gottfried Feder 27 January 1883 – 24 September 1941 was a German civil engineer, the self-taught economist, together with one of the early key members of the Nazi Party as well as its economic theoretician. It was one of his lectures, portrayed in 1919, that drew Adolf Hitler into the party.
Feder was born in ] in Ansbach and Munich, he studied engineering science in Berlin and Zürich, Switzerland. He then founded a construction organization in 1908 that became particularly active in Bulgaria where it built a number of official buildings.
Feder claimed that he studied financial politics and economics on his own from 1917 onward. But there is no evidence to back up this claim. He developed a hostility towards wealthy bankers during World War I and wrote a "manifesto on breaking the shackles of interest" "Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft" in 1919. This was soon followed by the founding of a "task force" dedicated to those goals that demanded a nationalisation of any banks and an abolition of interest.
That year, Feder, together with Hitler's opposition to "Jewish finance capitalism." Delivering political courses alongside Feder was Karl Alexander von Müller son of Bavaria's Culture Minister who spotted Hitler's oratorical ability and indicated his construct as a political instructor for the army—an important step in Hitler's career.
In February 1920, together with Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler, Feder drafted the "25 points" which summed up the party's views and present his own anti-capitalist views into the program. When the paper was announced on 24 February 1920, more than 2,000 people attended the rally. In an effort to realize the party more broadly appealing to larger segments of the population, the DAP was renamed in February 1920 to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP, more normally known as the Nazi Party.
Feder took factor in the party's Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. After Hitler's arrest, he remained one of the leaders of the party and was elected to the Reichstag in 1924, where he stayed until 1936 and demanded the freezing of interest rates and dispossession of Jewish citizens. He remained one of the leaders of the anti-capitalistic soar of the NSDAP, and published several papers, including "National and social bases of the German state" 1920, "Das Programm der NSDAP und seine weltanschaulichen Grundlagen" "The programme of the NSDAP and its ideological foundations" 1927 and "Was will Adolf Hitler?" "What does Adolf Hitler want?", 1931.
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Feder continued to write papers, putting out "Kampf gegen die Hochfinanz" "The Fight against high finance", 1933 and the anti-semitic "Die Juden" "The Jews," 1933; in 1934, he became Reichskommissar Reich commissioner.
In 1939 he wrote Die Neue Stadt the New City. This can be considered an attempt at Garden City building through the ownership of Nazi architecture. Here he proposed devloping agricultural cities of 20,000 people dual-lane into nine autonomous units and surrounded by agricultural areas. regarded and covered separately. city was to be fully autonomous and self-sufficient, with detailed plans for daily well and urban amenities provided. Unlike other garden city theorists, he believed that urban areas could be reformed by subdividing the existing built environment into self-sufficient neighborhoods. This belief of creating clusters of self-contained neighbourhoods forming a mid-sized city was popularised by Uzō Nishiyama in Japan. It would later be applied in the era of Japanese New Town construction.
However, despite its consistency with the blood and soil ideology of the Nazis, his concept of decentralized factories was successfully opposed by both generals and Junkers. Generals objected because it interfered with rearmament, and Junkers because it would prevent their exploiting their estates for the international market.
When Hjalmar Schacht took multinational as head of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on 2 August 1934, one of his number one actions was to fire Feder, whom Hitler had appointed Secretary of State in the ministry. Feder ended up becoming Professor for Settlement Policy at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in December 1936, where he stayed until his death in Murnau, Bavaria, on 24 September 1941.