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Sauckel joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in January 1923 (member 1,395)
This gives the wrong membership number for Sauckel’s 1923 entry into the NSDAP. Authoritative biographical references state that his original 1923 party number was 17,357; number 1,395 was assigned only later, honorarily, after the party was refounded in 1925.
Full reasoning
The article conflates Sauckel’s original 1923 NSDAP membership number with the honorary low number he later received after the Nazi Party was re-founded.
The most authoritative source I found here is Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie), which states that Sauckel joined the NSDAP on 1 January 1923 with membership number 17,357, and that from March 1925 he held membership number 1,395 "ehrenhalber" (honorarily).
That means the statement as written — saying that in January 1923 he was "member 1,395" — is factually incorrect. A more accurate wording would be that he joined in 1923 as member 17,357, and later held party number 1,395 honorarily after rejoining in 1925.
2 sources
- Deutsche Biographie - Sauckel, Fritz
Der NSDAP trat S. am 1.1.1923 bei (Mitglieds-Nr. 17357, seit März 1925: Mitglieds-Nr. 1395 „ehrenhalber“).
- Fritz Sauckel English - erfurt-web.de
The NSDAP-member with the number 17357 (integration on January 1st, 1923) seemed to concentrate all his efforts on politics.