Kurt Lüdecke (5 February 1890, in Berlin – 1960, in Prien am Chiemsee) was an ardent German nationalist and international traveler who joined the Nazi Party in the early 1920's and who used his social connections to raise money for the NSDAP.
"[1][3][4] In the wake of the uproar over the Law for the Protection of the Republic, after the assassination of Walther Rathenau in 1922, an unrealistic plan for a coup d'état in Munich was hatched by civil servant Dr. Otto Pittinger.
Nationalist organizations, including the Nazis, would overthrow the Bavarian government via a putsch and replace it with a dictatorship under Gustav Ritter von Kahr, the former minister president of Bavaria.
But Lüdecke persuaded Mussolini to send Leo Negrelli to Munich to interview Hitler on October 16, 1923, for the Corriere Italiano, providing visibility for the Nazis in Italy.
Possibly due to his association with Ernst Röhm, Hitler became suspicious of him, as of many others in the early S.A. Nazi Party, imprisoned him and apparently had him marked for death during The Night of the Long Knives.