> by 1916, glauer had attracted only one follower. in that year, however, he came into contact with the germanenorden, and was subsequently appointed the ordensmeister (local group leader) for the bavaria division of the schismatic germanenorden walvater of the holy grail. settling in munich, he established the thule society, which became increasingly political. on 5 january 1919 anton drexler, who had developed links between the thule society and various extreme right workers' organizations in munich, together with the thule society's karl harrer, established the deutsche arbeiterpartei (dap), or german workers' party. this party was joined in september 1919 by adolf hitler, who transformed it into the national socialist german workers' party or nazi party. glauer was also the owner of the vlkischer beobachter, which the nazi party purchased in december 1920 on the initiative of chase bauduin and dietrich eckart, who became the first editors. in 1921, hitler acquired all shares in the company, making him the sole owner of the publication. the paper was to become hitlers most important propaganda tool > by then, however, glauer had left the thule society and bavaria, having been accused of negligence in allegedly allowing the names of several key thule society members to fall into the hands of the government of the short-lived bavarian soviet republic, resulting in the execution of seven members after the attack on the munich government in april 1919, an accusation that he never denied. sebottendorf fled germany for switzerland and then turkey
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