Otto Ernst Remer, German general (born 1912)

Otto Ernst Remer was a German Wehrmacht German Army officer in World War II who played a major role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. He was a Captain and Major (1943-1944) and finally a Colonel and a General in 1945. In his later years, he became a politician and far-right activist. He co-founded the Socialist Reich Party in West Germany in the 1950s and is considered an influential figure in postwar neo-fascist politics in Germany.