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21-553: The beginnings of Kampfverlag go back to the year 1925 : At that time, the pharmacist Gregor Strasser, who had been running a drugstore in Landshut since 1920 and had been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria and the Reichstag since 1924 , decided to pursue his civil profession - which he had been doing for years had severely neglected his political engagement - to finally give up in favor of

42-550: A job as a full-time politician. Together with his brother Otto and the Pomeranian Gauleiter Theodor Vahlen , who had joined the NSDAP in the course of 1925 , Strasser decided to set up a National Socialist publishing house that would support the expansion of the party to areas outside of Bavaria , especially northern Germany , should give journalistic support. In contrast to the actual in-house publishing house of

63-478: A political weekly under the title Die Deutsche Revolution. In the summer of 1931 , Strasserverlag was renamed Die Schwarze Front , based on the name of the political group around Otto Strasser, which published a newspaper of the same name from 6 September 1931. Until he emigrated in the spring of 1933 , he used this newspaper primarily as a platform for violent attacks on Hitler and the NSDAP in domestic political struggles. After Strasser's flight from Germany in

84-607: The Combat League of Revolutionary National Socialists . On 4 July 1930, depending on the reading, he left the party or was expelled from it. Previously he had on 21 and 22 May 1930 rejected an offer to buy Kampfverlag for 120,000 RM. Instead, Kampfverlag was wound up during the summer of 1930 and closed on 1 October 1930. Otto Strasser saved a newspaper from the bankruptcy of the Kampfverlag to his new publishing house Der Nationale Sozialist , which he published from then on as

105-672: The "Daily Newspaper of the German Labor Front" from the Eher Press , with Goebbels remaining as the publisher. It contained principally party propaganda , agitation against the Weimar Republic , and antisemitism ; among many others it regularly attacked Bernhard Weiss , the deputy head of the Berlin police, who was Jewish. For this it was temporarily banned on 4 November 1931 by Albert Grzesinski , Berlin's chief of police. Circulation of

126-582: The 925th year of the 2nd millennium , the 25th year of the 20th century , and the 6th year of the 1920s decade. Der Angriff Der Angriff (in English "The Attack") was the official newspaper of the Berlin Gau of the Nazi Party . Founded in 1927, the last edition of the newspaper was published on 24 April 1945. The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels , who in 1926 had become

147-458: The Angriff Press. Its motto was "For the oppressed against the exploiters". At first appearing once a week, then starting 1 October 1929 twice a week, Der Angriff became a daily newspaper with the subtitle "The German Evening Paper in Berlin" after 1 November 1930. After 1 October 1932 it published twice daily as "The Attack at Noon" and "Night Attack". After 1 February 1933, it appeared as

168-614: The Kampfverlag and in particular the extensive independence that the Strasser brothers developed in this way from the Munich party leadership, led to various conflicts: On the one hand, there were tensions with Max Amann and the leadership of the Eher-Verlag , who were displeased with the loss of their monopoly over the Nazi press and journalism. More importantly, however, the publisher's activity deepened

189-541: The NSDAP, the Franz-Eher-Verlag , the new publishing house was to put a clearer accent on socialist positions and address the urban working class in particular. The Strasser brothers took the first step on the way to their own publishing house with the publication of the Nationalsozialistischen Briefe starting in the autumn of 1925. The Kampfverlag was founded on 1 March 1926. The publishing house

210-572: The Nazi Party leader ( Gauleiter ) in Berlin, and the party provided most of the money needed to ensure publication. The paper was first founded to rally NSDAP members during the nearly two-year ban on the party in Berlin. Der Angriff was conceived as a mass circulation paper that fought the hated " System " with rude and aggressive language. Antiparliamentarism and antisemitism were its self-defining themes. The most regular contributors were party functionaries; lead articles were usually written by

231-662: The newspaper slowly decreased. When the Allies started the bombing campaign against Berlin , the circulation was increased to keep up the morale of Berliners. An interview was conducted with Georg Kareski , a German-Jewish Banker. This interview was published on 23 December 1935, in which Georg publicly defends the antisemitic Nuremberg Laws as means to preserve the integrity of the Jewish race. While there were many other German Zionists who made similar statements, Georg's statement stood out due to threats against Jews with differing opinions and

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252-592: The newspaper was small during its first three years, but grew dramatically after the Reichstag election of September 1930 . There were almost 60,000 readers by the end of 1930, about 80,000 in March 1931, and 110,600 on the eve of the July 1932 Reichstag election , after which circulation began a decline. After the Nazis gained political power in Germany on 30 January 1933, the importance of

273-455: The profits made from the sale of the Strasser's drugstore served as a guarantee. Since the drugstore had been acquired from Strasser's wife Else's dowry, she was de jure a co-owner of the publishing house. After working for almost two years, Kampfverlag was in the green from 1928. Since the drugstore had been acquired from Strasser's wife Else's dowry, she was de jure a co-owner of the publishing house. After working for almost two years, Kampfverlag

294-426: The publisher, Goebbels, until 1933, and signed "Dr. G." Willi Krause, using the pen name Peter Hagen , was its first editor-in-chief . He was succeeded first by Julius Lippert , then in 1933 by Karoly Kampmann, and from 1935, by Goebbels's trusted friend Hans Schwarz van Berk . A further attraction of the paper were the political caricatures by Hans Schweitzer . Der Angriff was first published on 4 July 1927 by

315-466: The publishing house and temporarily acted as editor. According to Otto Strasser, the publishing house had eleven weekly newspapers in its program in 1926 and later three daily newspapers. A total of eight newspapers and magazines were published by the publishing house. In addition, there were individual book publications as well as countless brochures, leaflets, advertising leaflets and other comparable media for political advertising work. The brothers brought

336-491: The relative independence of Kampfverlag led to ever new conflicts between the Strasser brothers and Hitler, which reached their culmination point in the spring of 1930 : while Gregor Strasser was ready to switch to Hitler's line and henceforth concentrated on his work as Reichsorganisationsleiter, i.e. as head of the party apparatus the NSDAP, Otto Strasser preferred to turn his back on the Hitler movement and go his own way by founding

357-409: The rift between Gregor Strasser and his one-time follower Joseph Goebbels , which had begun in 1925 and developed into an outspoken personal enmity by the early 1930s . Goebbels was particularly angry that the Strasser brothers opposed his claim to control all Nazi publications published in Berlin as Gauleiter of Berlin and that they competed with his house newspaper, Der Angriff . In the background,

378-511: The spring of 1933, this organ, which he now published from Prague under the title Die Deutsche Revolution aus Prag , formed the cornerstone and main mouthpiece of his private war against the Nazi state from exile. 1925 1925 ( MCMXXV ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations,

399-432: The tendency of their publications to the formula in which they proclaimed the mouthpiece of a socialism that was "equally hostile to Western capitalism and Eastern Bolshevism ". The costs for founding the publishing house were covered by loans and guarantees, which the founders took out from friends of political sympathy: The industrialist Bruck contributed a loan of 4,000 RM to found the Kampfverlag. Among other things,

420-455: Was based near Berlin . The name was influenced by the Nazi idea of the conflict between the "movement" on the one hand and the existing state on the other for political power. In the years that followed, the publisher bought a number of existing newspapers in quick succession and brought them onto the Strasserist line . In addition to the Strasser brothers, Hans Hinkel held a one-third stake in

441-538: Was in the green from 1928 . While Gregor Strasser took on the duties of editor and – following his childhood dream of becoming a journalist – contributed numerous articles, Otto Strasser was the editor-in-chief of the Strassersche Zeitungen. Other employees of the Kampfverlags newspapers included Hans Hinkel , Walther Darré and the draftsman Hans Schweitzer . Within the NSDAP, the journalistic activities of

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