Franz Stöhr was a German

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 politician with the Nazi Party.

Stöhr was a member of the Reichstag

Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

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, first being elected in May 1924 and retaining his seat until his death. Stöhr began as a member of the German Völkisch Freedom Party

German Völkisch Freedom Party

The German Völkisch Freedom Party was a right-wing and antisemitic political party of Weimar Germany that took its name from the Völkisch movement, a populist movement focused on folklore and the German Volk....

 (DVFP) and was elected as part of the National Socialist Freedom Movement

National Socialist Freedom Movement

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, an electoral pact between this group and the Nazis. However in May 1927 Ernst Graf zu Reventlow

Ernst Graf zu Reventlow

Ernst, Count Reventlow was a German naval officer, journalist and Nazi politician.-Early life:Ernst Christian Einar Ludwig Detlev Graf zu Reventlow was born at Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the son of Ludwig Reventlow, a Danish nobleman, and Emilie Julie Anna Louise Rantzau...

 split from the DVFP after becoming a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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 and Stöhr joined the likes of Christian Mergenthaler and Wilhelm Kube

Wilhelm Kube

Wilhelm Kube was a German politician and Nazi official. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for...

 in following Reventlow into the Nazi Party.

He was also a leading figure in the Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband, a völkisch and anti-Semitic trade union

Trade union

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 for white-collar worker

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s, close links with which had been cultivated by Gregor Strasser

Gregor Strasser

Gregor Strasser was a politician of the National Socialist German Workers Party...

 in the early 1930s. He was a shop-assistant by profession and thus of the petit-bourgeois stock that made up the bulk of Nazi Party support in the 1920s.