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Otto Strasser, German political activist who, with his brother Gregor, occupied a leading position in the Nazi Party during its formative period. His leftist leanings and opposition to Adolf Hitler caused his downfall shortly before Hitler’s accession to power. Strasser was born into a Bavarian.

Otto Strasser (1897–1974) had also been a member of the Freikorps, but he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and fought against the Kapp Putsch. Strasser joined the Nazi Party in 1925, where he kept promoting the importance of socialism in National Socialism .

The Combat League of Revolutionary National Socialists (German: Kampfgemeinschaft Revolutionärer Nationalsozialisten, KGRNS), more commonly known as the Black Front (German: Schwarze Front), was a political group formed by Otto Strasser in 1930 after he resigned from the Nazi Party (NSDAP) to avoid being expelled.

MUNICH, West Germany, Aug. 27 (AP)—Otto Strasser, a prominent Nazi spokesman who broke with Hitler over party ideology, died today in Munich. He was 76 years old.

Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi Party. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's more radical wing, which became known as Strasserism, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant Hitlerite faction.

By analyzing Strasser's assertions in his numerous books, articles, and chapters, and comparing them with the voluminous historical record, the project outlined below calls to attention Strasser's attempts to transform his brand of Nazism into an acceptable political ideology.

Otto Strasser is presented here by Troy Southgate as a ‘German Socialist’, neatly eliding the fact that he was very much a national socialist with an early association with Hitler’s NSDAP. His brother, Gregor, was murdered in the infamous Night of The Long Knives and Otto barely escaped with his life, suffering danger, poverty and ...

Free-Germany movement. Leader. Otto Strasser. The Free-Germany Movement ( German: Frei-Deutschland-Bewegung) was a movement of German exiled opponents to the rule of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War. The movement was led by Otto Strasser.