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Emil Kirdorf

Coal industrialist who joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and left it in 1928; Hitler kept courting him, and he rejoined after 1933.

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Dates
1847–1938
Wikidata
Q91815
Over time
  1. Life 1847–1938
  2. member of Nazi Party 1927 – Aug 1928
  3. member of German National People’s Party Aug 1928 –

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  • Nazi Party 1927 – Aug 1928 Scholarship & press 1
  • German National People’s Party Aug 1928 – Scholarship & press 1
  • Nazi Party Scholarship & press 1

    Turner says this came “years later”, after the Nazis took power, and that the regime then celebrated him as an old fighter.

Timeline 3 dates
  1. 1847–1938 Emil Kirdorf
  2. 1927 – Aug 1928 Emil Kirdorf member of Nazi Party
  3. Aug 1928 – Emil Kirdorf member of German National People’s Party
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  1. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985. Scholarship & press
    Kirdorf joined the NSDAP.
    In August 1928, little more than a year after he joined the NSDAP, Kirdorf angrily submitted his resignation
    After leaving the NSDAP he quietly rejoined the DNVP.
    re-enter the NSDAP as the proud bearer of his old, prestigiously low membership number
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