Adolf Hitler's bodyguard
When Hitler returned to Munich from military service in 1918, he became a member of the Nazi Party, an extremist far-right political party in Bavaria. In 1921, he was elected leader of the party. As his speeches promoted violence and racism, Hitler needed permanent security.
Artur Dinter
Dinter's thinking in the years after the war became steadily more radical and more racist. In 1919, he had already taken part in founding the "Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund" and was in its leadership until it was banned in 1922. Thereafter he became a founding member of the "Deutsch-Völkische Freiheitspartei" ("German- Peoples Freedom Party") and forged closer ties with Adolf Hitler. After the Beerhall Putsch in Munich in 1923, Dinter was elected in 1924 to the Thuringian "Landtag" as a representative of the electoral alliance "Völkisch-Sozialer Block" ("Peoples Social Bloc"), also becoming factional leader. He drew ever nearer the Nazi Party's position. Hitler appointed him NSDAP State Leader of Thuringia right after getting out of prison at Landsberg am Lech. At the same time, Dinter became publisher of the newspaper "Der Nationalsozialist", which appeared in Weimar. He fell out with his former associates from the VSB, leading to his expulsion from that party. In 1925, after Hitler had been released early from prison after the Putsch, the Nazi Party was founded once again after having been disbanded after the débâcle in Munich. For his "loyalty" to the Party, Dinter received the single-digit membership number "5".