He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler.

Final solution Pre-Machtergreifung Post-Machtergreifung Parties Born at Bad Windsheim, Strasser was the son of a Catholic judicial officer who lived in the Upper Bavarian market town of Geisenfeld.

[1] He returned to Germany in 1919, where he served in the Freikorps that in May 1919 put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which was organized on the principles of workers' councils.

[2] Despite disagreements with Hitler, the Strassers did not represent a radical wing opposed to the party mainstream.

[3] Otto Strasser, along with Gregor, continued as a leading Left Nazi within the party until he seceded from the NSDAP in 1930 following an aggressive attack led by Joseph Goebbels at a General Assembly on June 30, resulting in his expulsion from the meeting.

His party proved unable to counter Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and Strasser spent the years of the Nazi era in exile.

[6] Goebbels denounced Strasser as the Nazis' "Public Enemy Number One" and a price of $500,000 was set on his head.

[citation needed] During his exile, he wrote articles on Nazi Germany and its leadership for several British, American, and Canadian newspapers, including the New Statesman, and a series for the Montreal Gazette, which was ghostwritten by then-Gazette reporter and later politician Donald C.

[8] Strasser eventually gained West German citizenship, returned to Germany on 16 March 1955,[9] and settled in Munich.