Eduard Stadtler (February 17, 1886 in Hagenau – October 5, 1945 in NKVD special camp Nr.
7) was a German journalist and politician who formed the Anti-Bolshevist League in 1918.
Stadler had begun advocating the creation of a "national socialist" dictatorship in 1918.Anton Drexler, the founder of the Nazi Party, attended Stadtler's lectures in Berlin.Stadtler had been a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) until 1933 when he defected to the Nazi Party weeks prior to the DNVP being dissolved.