Herman Esser entered the party with Adolf
Hitler in 1920, became the editor of the Nazi paper, Völkischer Beobachter, and a Nazi member of the Reichstag. In the early history of the party,
he was Hitler's defacto
deputy.
Herman Esser was born in Rörmoos, Bavaria. He
did service in WWI and was for a short time a Social Democrat. He died
in Munich in 1981.
Herman Esser was an effective public speaker and was
its first chief of propaganda. After the Beer
Hall Putsch fiasco, he was influential in the reorganization of
the party. From 1929 to 1933,
he was the Nazi party
floor leader in Munich's city council. Afterwards, he became a member
of the Reichstag and Bavaria'a minister of economics. In 1939 to the
end of the war he served as the undersecretary for tourism in the Reich
propaganda ministry.