The Nazi Party and its Capital: An Analysis of the NSDAP Membership in Munich, 1925-1930

  • This article examines the membership profile of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in Munich, the party's birthplace and political, administrative, and financial center of power. On the basis of an analysis of more than 4,000 members listed in the local NSDAP Membership Register between 1925 and 1930, the authors arrive at four major findings: (a) Party membership expanded slowly but more or less continuously; (b) membership was dispersed fairly evenly across city districts, with no major concentrations of Nazi members; (c) membership was distributed widely and relatively evenly across occupational groups and social statuses, although some occupations showed a higher percentage of Nazi memberships; (d) the proportion of female members in 1925 was relatively high but falls to much lower levels by 1930. These findings are discussed in the context of current scholarship of the changing class, age, and gender composition of the Nazi Party before 1933.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Helmut K. Anheier, Friedhelm Neidhardt
Parent Title (English):American Behavioral Scientist
ISSN:1552-3381
Publisher:Sage Publications
Place of Publisher:Los Angeles [u.a.]
Publication year:1998
First Page:1219
Last Page:1236
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764298041009004
Release Date:2015/06/16
Volume:41
Issue:9
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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