Streicher, Julius (1895–1946)

German politician. After World War I, he began a violent anti-Semitic and nationalistic movement at Nuremberg, Germany. He founded a special weekly paper for ‘the struggle for the truth against traitors’ entitled Der Sturmer, which specialized in Jew-baiting. After Hitler's triumph in 1933 the views of Der Sturmer soon prevailed throughout Germany, and when Hitler decided on boycotting Jewish shops, Streicher was made Aktionsführer (riot leader). Later he became governor of Franconia. Streicher was born in Fleinhausen near Augsburg, Germany. He was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trial in 1946 and executed.