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HERMANN ESSER, SIGNED LETTER, IN PURPLE PENCIL, -ESSER- VG, FOLDED
HERMANN ESSER/LETTER RE;
(1900 – 1981) Very early member of the Nazi Party. A journalist, Esser was the editor of the Nazi paper, ‘Volkischer Beobachter’, and a Nazi member of the Reichstag, besides being a de facto deputy of Adolf Hitler. Munich, May 25, 1935, to a high-ranking school director, a statement of greeting for a trip to Hungary undertaken by the Munich ‘Lehrergesangvereins’ (‘teacher’s singing club’)

As one of Hitler’s earliest followers and friends, he held influential positions in the party during the Weimar Republic, but increasingly lost influence during the Nazi era.
Arrested by the Americans after the end of the war in Europe, he was released in May 1948 after being considered an unimportant Nazi official. Esser then went into hiding only to be re-arrested in 1949 by the West German Police.

Charged under the new West Germany anti-Nazification laws, he was found guilty of being a “major offender” and sentenced to five years hard labour with a loss of civil rights for life. He was released in 1952