Alfred Roth (born 27 April 1879 in Stuttgart – died 9 October 1948 in Hamburg) was a German politician and writer noted for his anti-Semitism.
[2] He met Georg Ritter von Schönerer in 1904 and became an enthusiastic supporter of his pan-German ideas and was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for the German Social Party in 1907.
[4] As leader of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund (DVSTB) he became noted for his propaganda work and was credited with attracting some 200,000 members to the group by the time it was banned in 1922 following the murder of Walther Rathenau.
[6] The DVSTB was the single most important producer of anti-Semitic and Völkisch material in northern Germany, and through this group he co-operated with the Nazi Party, which fulfilled a similar role in the south of the country.
[8] He threw in his lot with the Nazi Party, although he gained no real status, a failed candidacy in the local election in Hamburg in 1932 being his only noteworthy contribution.