# Anton Drexler Munich locksmith and founder of the German Workers' Party (DAP) in 1919, the organization [[Adolf Hitler]] was sent to infiltrate as an army informant — and instead joined and took over. Drexler co-authored the [[NSDAP 25-Point Program]] with Hitler and [[Gottfried Feder]] and was the party's first chairman until Hitler forced him out in 1921, reducing him to honorary figurehead. He embodies the movement's founder-displaced-by-the-talent pattern. *Stub — expand with: DAP origins in the Thule/völkisch milieu, the 1921 leadership coup, post-marginalization drift.*