The Völkisch Work Community (Völkische Werkgemeinschaft) was a German 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...

 movement founded and led by Otto Dickel

Otto Dickel

Otto Dickel was the founder of the fascist Völkisch Work Community that existed in Germany during the Weimar Republic era...

 that existed from the 1920s until 1933, which was not associated with Nazism

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

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History

The movement was one of a number of Völkisch nationalist

Völkisch movement

The volkisch movement is the German interpretation of the populist movement, with a romantic focus on folklore and the "organic"...

 movements that existed in Germany during the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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 era and in 1921, 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 Volkisch Work Community with the Nazi Party and the German Socialist Party

German Socialist Party

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. However such plans were scrapped when Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

, 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 Socialist Party and the Völkisch Work Community, Hitler personally accused Dickel of being an enemy of National Socialism

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

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

Laissez-faire

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Otto Dickel spoke of the need to revive of the German nation as well as German and Western

Western world

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 culture, supported the creation of a Greater German nation and wanted to abandon what he saw as a cowardly contemporary culture. he stated: