High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser (September 10, 1897 in Windsheim August 27, 1974 in Munich) was a German politician and 'left-wing' member of the German Nazi Party party who rejected some of Adolf Hitler's ideas and less socialist economic tendencies. Strasser subsequently formed his own faction within the Nazi Party, along with his brother, Gregor Strasser, and eventually broke away from the Nazi Party altogether, forming the Black Front. Born in Bavaria, he took part in World War I and returned to Germany in 1919 where he served in the Freikorps that put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic. At the same time, he also joined the Social Democratic Party. In 1920 he participated in the opposition to the Kapp Putsch. However, he grew increasingly alienated with that reformist-socialist party's stand, particularly when it put down a workers' uprising in the Ruhr, and he left the party later that year.