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Fritz Dorls | |
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| Born | September 9, 1910 |
| Died | January 25, 1995(1995-01-25) (aged 84) |
| Known for | Chairman of the Socialist Reich Party |
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| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
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Fritz Dorls (September 9, 1910 – January 25, 1995) was afar-right German politician and formerNazi Party member.[1] He was chairman of theNazi-orientedSocialist Reich Party, which was banned by the German Federal Constitutional Court in 1952.
Dorls joined the Nazi Party in 1929.[2] He claimed to have graduated fromHeidelberg University with a PhD, but in 1960 the university reported no records of him having earned it.[3] Dorls worked as afarmer andforester on his father's estate. He was also a member of theSturmabteilung. Starting in March 1945, he taught history classes at theGerman Labor Front Reich School inErwitte.
Dorls joined theLuftwaffe in 1940. He was arrested byBritish authorities in 1946 as he was a member of the "automatic arrest" category.[2]
Dorls joined theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) after being released. and became an editor for one of its newspapers in Hannover. In 1948, he was removed from the newspaper due to his Nazi beliefs. He left the CDU to join theGerman Right Party (DRP) and was one of five members it elected to theBundestag in the1949 election.[4]
Dorls was expelled from the DRP for allegedly contactingOtto Strasser.[5] He formed theSocialist Reich Party (SRP) on 2 October 1949, with multiple DRP county and municipal branches joining it.[6] In the 1951 elections the SRP received over 400,000 votes, worth around 11% of the vote, Lower Saxony and 7.7% in Bremen. The party claimed a membership of 30,000-40,000.[7] The West German government requested the SRP be banned on 16 November 1951, and theFederal Constitutional Court ruled in favor of banning the party on 23 October 1952.[8]
After the SRP was banned by the German government, Dorls fled to Spain to avoid arrest. Upon his return in 1955, he was arrested. In 1957, he was sentenced to 14 months in prison for his leadership in an anti-constitutional organization, insulting ChancellorKonrad Adenauer, and fraud. He died in 1995 at the age of 84.
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