About this place
The Sterneckerbräu, a brewery and tavern that had stood at Tal 38, near the Isartor, since the sixteenth century, became one of the most consequential addresses in modern German history almost by accident. The small German Workers' Party, or DAP, founded in January 1919 by the railway mechanic Anton Drexler, met once a week in a back room of the inn. On 12 September 1919 a young army intelligence agent named Adolf Hitler was sent to observe one of these gatherings. He spoke up during a discussion, impressed Drexler, and accepted an invitation to join. In October 1919 the party established its very first office in a cramped side room here, and it was from this obscure beer hall that a fringe nationalist and antisemitic group grew into a mass movement. After 1933 the Nazi regime turned the room into a party museum, treating the address as a sacred shrine to its own origins. The building survived the war and today serves quietly as a residential and commercial property, a registered historic monument whose past now demands sober reflection rather than reverence.
Key facts
- 1919 year — Hitler attended a DAP meeting here on 12 September and soon joined the party
- 555 card number — Hitler's membership card was numbered 555, though he was only the 55th member; numbering began at 501 to make the party look larger
- 38 Tal — The address in Munich's old town near the Isartor where the first party office stood
📍 Tal 38, 80331, München