Adam Dressler

Adam Friedrich Eugen Dressler (6 May 1898-?) is a Sudeten-born German war veteran and politician who is currently leader of German Reich from 1933, after the 1933 Coup d'etat by far-right politicians and paramilitary organization. He ascended to the top-rank hierarchy as deputy leader of German Workers' Party in the party after his Völkisch Manifesto has been published to the public around after the Great War. He approached to major völkisch parties' leaders to make an agreement about the creation of unified völkisch alliance. The agreement was reached, led to the creation of Völkisch Solidarity Bloc in 1921. After the retirement of Karl Harrer, Dressler has been elected as new party chairman in 1923. He, Albrecht von Graefe, Reinhold Wulle, Dietrich Eckart, Ferdinand Werner and other Völkisch politicians signed the "Covenant of German Völkisch Movement Ideologues" transforming the VSB to the new "Pan-German Volkist People's Unity Party" or "Alldeutsche Volkistische Volkseinheitspartei" (ADVKP) under his leadership.
After a coup by the Freikorps Deutschland, a large right-wing militia secretly supported by Werner's ministry, Adam Dressler was appointed President of the Reich in 1933 by the Junta of National Salvation, led by Chief of General Staff Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker, who had been appointed in 1932 by Dressler's right-hand man, Chancellor Ferdinand Werner. This act was reluctantly supported by the Reichstag. The day after his appointment, Dressler dissolved the Reichstag to call for a snap election, aiming to secure a right-wing supra-majority in parliament. Before the election, Dressler enacted the "Act of Safeguard of the Reich," passed by Reichstag, denouncing communist actions related to the Reichstag Fire Incident and declaring all far left-wing and socialist parties illegal. This caused nationwide protests and led key leaders of the banned parties to flee to Denmark and the Soviet Russia.
To consolidate his presidential power, the Reichstag passed the "Act of Presidential Support on Administration of the Reich," centralizing authority in the hands of the president. This act granted him the title "Führer des gesamten Deutschen Volkes" (Leader of All German People), aligning his legitimacy with the German populace and molding the presidency to fit the Volkism doctrine's envisioned nation. 
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