Julius Streicher (1885-1946)

Member of the Nazi Party from 1921 and party leader (Gauleiter) in the district of Franken. Streicher founded the anti-Semitic tabloid, Der Stürmer, and to many represented the personified anti-Semitism. Streicher became a member of the Reichstag in 1933 and in the same year organised the boycott of Jewish businesses. He was one of the Nazi Party’s most radical members and in this capacity one of the men responsible for the wording of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Streicher’s role in the persecution of the Jews was focused on whipping up anti-Semitic sentiments in the German population. In spite of never having participated directly in the extermination of the Jews, Streicher was sentenced to death at the Allies’ war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg and executed.