Gregor Strasser (1892-1934) — the party's northern organizer, killed 1934
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The Nazi Party had a socialist wing, and Hitler destroyed it twice — politically in 1926, physically in 1934.
Who they are
Gregor Strasser, organizer of the party's northern, social-revolutionary faction.
What they do
His wing was broken at the Bamberg conference in 1926 (his own man Goebbels went over to Hitler around the Bamberg and Munich meetings of that year); he was killed on 30 June 1934 in the purge, and the 3 July law declared the killings legal.
How it works
Both the conference and the killing are standard record; the law is quoted in full on its own page here.
Why it matters
He is the proof the early party was violently factional, not unified — and that the 1934 purge was political consolidation, not police work.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #201 — person layer] Organizer of the party's northern, social-revolutionary wing — the faction Hitler broke at the Bamberg conference of 1926 (Goebbels, then a Strasser man, crossed to Hitler). Killed 30 June 1934 in the purge; the killings were legalized retroactively by the 3 July statute (staatsnotwehr_law_1934). ENGINE READING: the road-not-taken faction inside the party, eliminated by the same instrument that killed the SA leadership — evidence canon carries that the early NSDAP was violently factional, not doctrinally unified. Held; name no holder.
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