15 Facts About Armin Mohler

Armin Mohler was a Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist, known for his works on the Conservative Revolution.

Armin Mohler is widely seen as the father of the Neue Rechte, the German branch of the European New Right.

Armin Mohler was born in Basel, Switzerland, on 12 April 1920, the second child of a Swiss railway official.

Armin Mohler underwent training, but his application was later turned down.

From 1949 to 1953, Armin Mohler served as Ernst Junger's private secretary.

Armin Mohler moved to Munich in 1961 to work for the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation.

Armin Mohler then served as its managing director from 1964 until its retirement in 1985.

Armin Mohler identified Franz Josef Strauss, a Bavarian Christian social union politician, as hopeful right-wing candidate within the European tradition of Gaullism.

Armin Mohler's hope was, that Strauss would lead a right-wing national-revolutionary mass movement.

In 1967, Armin Mohler received the Konrad Adenauer Prize for his work in journalism.

Armin Mohler wrote the introduction to de Benoist's Kulturrevolution von rechts when it appeared in West Germany in 1985.

Armin Mohler had been introduced to French far-right ideas during his time in France.

Armin Mohler's eulogy was given by the then 32-year-old Gotz Kubitschek, who soon became one of the most important German New Right figures.

Armin Mohler remained an unrepentant fascist until the end of his life, acknowledging shortly before his death that he was an admirer of Italian and Spanish fascism.

Armin Mohler backed The Republicans for a brief time, serving as an adviser to its leader Franz Schonhuber, but saw no future for them.