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Adam Dressler is one of the main antagonists in the Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Führerreich: Legacy of the Great War, and the main villain if the player chooses to play as Germany.
A military veteran, Dressler and his Valkist party rose to the top of German politics, becoming Führer of all Germans by promising to restore German pride and reestablish a great Germanic nation. To achieve this, Dressler is capable of unleashing another apocalypse in Europe... a new great war.
Biography[]
Military service in the Great War[]
In 1914, Dressler volunteered for the Imperial German Army and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant. His experiences during the Great War profoundly shaped his worldview. Wounded several times and decorated with honors such as the Iron Cross, Pour le Merit, and the Ritterkreuz, Dressler's war diaries served as the basis for his later writings. During his breaks from military service, he immersed himself in philosophical works, delving into the writings of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and other prominent thinkers.
Rise to Power (1919-1932)[]
Dressler in front of his followers, 1923.
Like many German soldiers returning to their homeland, Dressler saw how communist criminals were initiating a series of riots throughout Germany and decided to join the Freikorps to fight them. Shortly after the attempted communist revolution ended, he withdrew from the Freikorps and founded the Valkistische Volkspartei Deutschlands in 1922, a union of various paramilitary and pan-Germanic groups that would soon become a force to be reckoned with after gaining support for its criticism of the Treaty of Versailles and the shortcomings of the republic.
The popularity of Dressler and the Valkist party was on the rise, having become the new rulers of Bavaria after thwarting Ludendorff's coup attempt in 1923 together with Von Seeckt, leader of the Reichswehr, and governing Bavaria without interruption since then. With an already consolidated base as a political springboard, Dressler devoted himself to traveling throughout Germany to expand his presence both as a Valkist political figure and as a member of the party itself, having won several seats in the Reichstag, which made him and the Valkist party the most influential in the country.
While Germany was under constant political violence since 1919, suffering from incompetent presidents and orchestrating various coups that maintained the feeling of state fragility among Germans, Adam Dressler seemed to represent the stability that the nation so desperately needed. Support for him would be overwhelmingly demonstrated when he ran as a presidential candidate for the Reich in 1932.
Although Dressler won the election legitimately, he was not liked by the still-incumbent president Wilhelm Marx and his chancellor von Schleicher, who wanted to prevent the rise to power of Valkism at all costs by carrying out a self-coup, declaring a state of emergency, and abolishing the Reichstag to rule by decree. Such actions only led to support for the legitimate elected president Dressler, who, with the help of the TST and dissidents from the German army, marched on Berlin and deposed the coup government, and finally Adam Dressler was sworn in as President before the Reichstag.
Valkist dictatorship[]
Valkinization of Germany[]
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