14 Facts About Alfred Baeumler

Alfred Baeumler contributed to the Zeitschrift fur nationalrevolutionare Politik under the pseudonyms "Leopold Martin" and "Wolf Ecker".

Alfred Baeumler was originally close to the Bundische and the Jungkonservativen, but then turned to National Socialism.

At the Reichstag elections of 1932, Alfred Baeumler openly declared his allegiance to the NSDAP along with other philosophers, but it was not until after the party had come to power that he applied for membership.

On 10 May 1933, Alfred Baeumler gave his inaugural lecture, "Wider den undeutschen Geist", as part of his college "Wissenschaft, Hochschule, Staat" in the crowded lecture hall 38 of the Friedrich Wilhelm University.

Since July 1934, Alfred Baeumler had been a member of the NSDAP's Higher Education Commission.

Alfred Baeumler worked there primarily as Rosenberg's liaison to the universities and edited the Internationale Zeitschrift fur Erziehung and, from 1936, the journal Weltanschauung und Schule, whose editor was Hans Karl Leistritz.

At that time, Ernst Krieck and Alfred Baeumler were considered "the two leading philosophers of National Socialism".

From April 1942, Alfred Baeumler was head of the "Aufbauamt der Hohen Schule", a planned party university called the NSDAP's Hohe Schule.

Alfred Baeumler was one of the few Nazi professors who did not return to a university post.

Alfred Baeumler interprets the word "new", claiming content that never existed in this simple explanation.

Alfred Baeumler wrote a book entitled "Nietzsche, der Philosoph und Politiker", which appeared in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek in 1931 and was widely read.

Alfred Baeumler wanted to hear nothing of the state as a moral organism in Hegel's sense, he wanted to hear nothing of Bismarck's Christian Lesser Germany.

Alfred Baeumler compiled an extensive volume, "Nietzsche in seinen Briefen und Berichten der Zeitgenossen" in 1932 for Alfred Kroner Verlag: Die Lebensgeschichte in Dokumenten ; and he edited a 12-volume edition of Nietzsche's writings, which was published by Alfred Kroner from 1930 onwards and is still available today in new editions.

Alfred Baeumler wrote introductions or epilogues to the individual volumes of the edition, which continued to be printed in new editions after 1945.