original_query: What was Otto Böckel's role in German politics?
query: What was Otto Böckel's role in German politics?
answer: Otto Böckel was a German populist politician who was one of the first to successfully exploit anti-Semitism as a political issue. He was elected to the Reichstag in 1887 as the first independent anti-semite, and founded the Antisemitische Volkspartei.  He also led an anti-Semitic agrarian movement and used populist techniques such as mass rallies, later adopted by the Nazis. His political influence declined after 1894, and he left politics in 1909.