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National Socialist Freedom Movement Nationalsozialistische Freiheitsbewegung | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Albrecht von Graefe Erich Ludendorff |
| Founded | April 1924; 101 years ago (1924-04) |
| Dissolved | 27 February 1925; 100 years ago (1925-02-27) |
| Merger of | NSDAP andDVFP |
| Merged into | NSDAP |
| Paramilitary wing | Frontbann |
| Ideology | Nazism Pan-Germanism Anti-communism Antisemitism Factions: Anti-Catholicism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Brown |
| Party flag | |
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TheNational Socialist Freedom Movement (German:Nationalsozialistische Freiheitsbewegung, NSFB) orNational Socialist Freedom Party (German:Nationalsozialistische Freiheitspartei, NSFP) was a short-livedpolitical party inWeimar Germany created in April 1924 during the aftermath of theBeer Hall Putsch.Adolf Hitler and manyNazi leaders were jailed after the failedcoup attempt and theNazi Party was outlawed in what came to be known as the "lean"[1] or "wilderness years".[2] The remaining Nazis formed the NSFB as a legal means of carrying on the party and its ideology. Included in this party was the similarly reformed and renamedFrontbann, which was a legal alternative to theSA.
Eugene Davidson notes that "[t]he Far Right could not agree on much of anything for long, not even on who was the chief enemy", with NSFP Reichstag deputyReinhold Wulle believing that theCatholics were a greater danger than the Jews. Wulle told a party gathering in January 1925 that Hitler would never again regain his former authority. Hitler himself had given up his leadership of the party during the duration of his imprisonment, telling people who came to see him that the grounds for his decision were that he was overworked writinga voluminous book. NSFP leadersAlbrecht von Graefe andErich Ludendorff both quit the NSFP in February 1925, only a little more than a year after it was founded.[3]
On 27 February 1925, the Nazi Party was reformed after the ban expired in January and Hitler had been released from prison in December 1924. The NSFB was then reabsorbed into the Nazi Party.
The NSFB formed an electoral alliance with Ludendorff'sGerman Völkisch Freedom Party. In some districts, it was called the Völkisch-nationaler Block or Volksbloc. In theBavarian elections of April 1924, the Volksbloc had been able to elect 23 of 129 deputies to the state legislature.
In theMay 1924 elections, the NSFB won 32 seats in theReichstag. The eminentWorld War I GeneralErich Ludendorff and former SA headErnst Röhm and alsoTheodor Fritsch,Wilhelm Kube,Theodor Vahlen,Ernst Graf zu Reventlow,Albrecht von Graefe andChristian Mergenthaler were among the winning candidates. However, inthe December 1924 elections the party lost 18 of these seats.
German Reichstag
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats won | +/– | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1924 | 1,918,329 | 6.5 (6th) | 32 / 491 |  32 | |
| December 1924 | 907,242 | 3.0 (8th) | 14 / 491 |  18 |
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