Otto Dickel

Who was Otto Dickel?

Otto Dickel was the founder of the fascist Völkisch Work Community that existed in Germany during the Weimar Republic era. In 1921, Dickel participated in negotiations with the Nazi Party under the leadership of Anton Drexler attempted to negotiate with Dickel to merge the Volkish Work Community with the Nazi Party and the German Social Party. However such plans were scrapped when Adolf Hitler, then only a member of the Nazi party, vehemently rejected the plan and threatened to resign from the Nazi Party, if the Nazis agreed to merge with the German Social Party and the Völkish Work Community, Hitler personally accused Dickel of being an enemy of National Socialism. Over time, Dickel would gradually drifted away from his economic leftism and by the 1930s had become a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism.

Otto Dickel spoke of the need the creation of a Greater German nation, the revival of the German nation as well as German and Western culture and the need to abandon what he saw as a cowardly contemporary culture.