What job did Hitler hold before leading the Nazi party?

His only major and stable job before becoming a professional politician was that of enlisted solider. He volunteered and was enlisted as a regular soldier in a Bavarian unit. After the war he was employed by his military unit as a civilian relations officer, until his resignation from the army in 1919. read more

At the end of the war, he desperately tried to stay in the army. An officer named Karl Meyer enlisted him as an intelligence operative, i.e. an army snitch. He did that job for two years, until 1921, when he was invited to join the Nazi party and quickly became it's leader. read more

Hitler associated Marxism with the Jews and thus reviled it. He also understood how a political party directly opposed to a possible Communist revolution could play on the fears of so many Germans and gain support. In February of 1920, Hitler urged the German Workers' Party to holds its first mass meeting. read more

The Nazi Party emerged from the German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany. The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. read more