German dictator Adolf Hitler walks alongside Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Rudolf Hess, Germany, 1935

At a Nazi Party rally, crowds of German Army soldiers are seen giving the Nazi salute towards German dictator Adolf Hitler. Hitler walks past the masses alongside Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Rudolf Hess, Nuremberg, Germany, 1935. Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.