Gregor Strasser
Early followers of the party included Rudolf Hess, Hermann Göring (command of the "Sturmabteilung" (SA) as "Oberster SA-Führer" in 1923), Ernst Röhm (later head of the SA), Alfred Rosenberg (prominent racial theorist), Gregor Strasser, Dietrich Eckart (a key founder of the party), Hermann Esser, Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter and Erich Ludendorff (Field-Marshal who was the party's candidate for President of the Republic in 1925).