1967 Press Photo German Politician Gunter Schweimer At Home

Gunter Schweimer, 54 years old, is since 1st January, 1965 chairman of the NPD (National Party of Germany). Already 1925 Schweimer joined the Hitler-youth, 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP: 1932 he joined the SS. Already 1933 he belonged to the "Body Guard" of Adolf Hitler. 1938 Schweimer became aide-de-camp of the "Reichs-Foreign-Minister" Joachim Von Ribbentrop. One year later he was SS-"Hauptsturm"-leader. 1941 Schweimer became legation councilor in Ribbentrop's ministry. 1942 he went to the front as a SS-officer. In the beginning of the fifties Schweimer settled as an inland shipowner in Hamburg-Flottbek. On 29th November, 1966 the NPD-district-chairman from the street Hochrad 7 in Flottbek was main-speaker at the first NPD-declaration in Hamburg after the Bavarian election. Together with the NPD-member of the federal directorate and ex-county-speaker Meier-Dom, who has just entered into the Bavarian diet; Schweimer looks forward to the election of the diet in Schleswig-Holstein in spring. He says: "We have foreseen the success in Bavaria; it will also be like this in the north of the Federal Republic." Ops.: Gunter Schweimer at home.

Photo is dated 1967.

Photo measures 8 x 6 inches.