1929 - Joachim Hossenfelder Joins the Nazi Party

Joachim Hossenfelder was born in 1899. In 1917, he volunteered for military service and fought at the battles of the Somme and Verdun. As a student of theology after the war, Hossenfelder was active in right wing Freikorps activities. He claimed in 1922 that the experiences at the front were the greatest and most powerful he ever had and that "To become warriors for God and fatherland was the task the war had set for us." In 1929 as a Protestant country pastor in Silesia, he joined the Nazi Party. After joining he declared, the greatest event of our time was that "God had brought [the German] Volk into being and he had done so through Hitler, Volk was race and God wants race." In 1933, Pastor Hossenfelder became head of the German Christian Movement in Berlin which attempted to combine Christianity and Nazism.