Otto Dickel was the founder of the fascist

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

 Völkisch Work Community

Völkisch Work Community

The Völkisch Work Community was a German fascist movement founded and led by Otto Dickel that existed from the 1920s until 1933, which was not associated with Nazism.-History:...

 that existed in Germany during the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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 era. In 1921, Dickel participated in negotiations with the Nazi Party under the leadership of Anton Drexler

Anton Drexler

Anton Drexler was a German right-wing political leader of the 1920s, known for being Adolf Hitler's mentor during his early days in politics.-Biography:...

 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

Adolf Hitler

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, 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

Nazism

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. Over time, Dickel would gradually drifted away from his economic leftism and by the 1930s had become a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism

Laissez-faire

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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

Western world

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culture and the need to abandon what he saw as a cowardly contemporary culture.