Bamberg Conference

The Bamberg Conference (German: Bamberger Führertagung) included some sixty members of the leadership of the Nazi Party, and was specially convened by Adolf Hitler in Bamberg, in Upper Franconia, Germany on Sunday 14 February 1926 during the "wilderness years" of the party.

Hitler's purposes in convening the ad hoc conference embraced at least the following:

• to curtail dissent within the party that had arisen among members of its northern branches and to foster party unity based upon--and only upon--the "leadership principle" (Führerprinzip)
• to establish without controversy his position as the sole, absolute and unquestioned ultimate authority within the party, whose decisions are final and non-appealable
• to eliminate any notion that the party was in any way a democratic or consensus-based institution
• to eradicate bickering between the northern and southern factions of the party over ideology and goals
• to establish the Twenty-Five Point Programme as constituting the party's "immutable" programme