Scarce silver-plated pair of dinner utensils from the 'Dietrick Eckart Laqndhaus'. Included is a fish knife, 8.5 in. long, as well as a matching fork, 7.25 in. long. Both pieces are engraved 'L. E.' for 'Landhaus Echart' at the base of their respective handles. Both are also maker marked 'BSF 90'. DIETRICH ECKART (1868–1923) was a German poet, playwright, and political activist who was one of the founders of the German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, was the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Volkischer Beobachter, and the lyricist of the first party anthem, 'Sturmlied' ('Storming Song'). He was a participant in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and died on 26 December of that year, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, of a heart attack. He was acknowledged by Hitler, whom he closely mentored and supported, to be the spiritual co-founder of Nazism and 'a guiding light of the early National Socialist movement.'