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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- DAP
- Chairman
- Anton Drexler
- Deputy chairman
- Karl Harrer
- Founders
- Anton Drexler , Dietrich Eckart , Gottfried Feder , Karl Harrer
- Founded
- 5 January 1919
- Dissolved
- 24 February 1920
- Merger of
- Political Workers' Circle , Free Workers' Committee for a Good Peace
- Succeeded by
- National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
- Headquarters
- Fürstenfelder Straße 14, Munich , Germany
- Membership
- 555 ( claimed ), 55 ( actual ) January 1920
- Ideology
- Pan-Germanism , Anti-Marxism , Anti-capitalism , Antisemitism , Völkisch nationalism
- Political position
- Far-right
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Encyclopedic overview
The German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was an obscure far-right political party established in the Weimar Republic after World War I. It lasted from 5 January 1919 until 24 February 1920. The DAP was the precursor of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party.
History
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