Was Hitler economically left wing?

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Liberte is right about a mistake of applying modern, especially American, terms to those times.

By the way, in Weimar Republic the mainstream rightist forces rejected laisse-fairism. And, also by the way, the modern, mainstream right in Europe does as well.

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Basically what Progressive Realist said.

Also, you can't be really economically left wing and ruthlessly suppress unions at the same time.

And on a side note, even mainstream rightist forces in the Weimar Republic were rejecting a classical laissez-faire ideology (much as mainstream right in the contemporary Europe).

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Absolutely not window dressing to the SA, who wanted a "Second Revolution."  There was an element of the Nazi Party that put "socialist" and "workers" into NSDAP.  Now, Hitler was not part of that element, and that element lost out, violently, in 1934.  I've made that distinction.

And why this element lost out, or rather was mercilessly purged and literally destroyed? To allow a permanent alliance between Hitler and business/military establishment. Hitler used those people you were talking about to gain power and then dumped. Very left wing of him