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Richard Kunze

Richard Kunze (5 February 1872-May 1945) was a German right-wing politician.

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Richard Kunze was born in Sagan, Prussia, German Empire (present-day Zagan, Poland) in 1872, and he served as a general secretary of the German Conservative Party during World War I. Towards the end of the war, he became involved with the DVLP and was infamous for his strong anti-Semitism. After the war, he became involved in the German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation before becoming the chief publicist of the DNVP in 1920. He left the party in 1921 to found the German Social Party, a more anti-Semitic party than the DNVP, rejecting monarchism. He embezzled much of the party's funds before its dissolution in 1929, and he joined the NSDAP in 1930 and was elected to the Prussian Landtag in 1932. He went on to serve in the Reichstag from 1933 to 1945, and he went missing during the Battle of Berlin.

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