45 Facts About Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank, and the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe was a protege of Murray Rothbard, who established him at UNLV, where Hans-Hermann Hoppe taught from 1986 to 2008.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe founded the Property and Freedom Society in 2006; among the speakers at the organization's conferences in Turkey, some have been white nationalists.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe completed his undergraduate studies at Saarland University and received his MA and PhD degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe studied under Jurgen Habermas, a leading German intellectual of the post-WWII era, but came to reject Habermas's ideas and European leftism generally.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, from 1976 to 1978 and earned his habilitation in Foundations of Sociology and Economics from the University of Frankfurt in 1981.

From 1986 until his retirement in 2008, Hans-Hermann Hoppe was a professor in the School of Business at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a Distinguished Fellow of the Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank that is publisher of much of his work, and was editor of various Mises Institute periodicals.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe has said that Murray Rothbard was his "principal teacher, mentor and master".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe came to the United States through Rothbard on a scholarship from the Center for Libertarian Studies, and Rothbard established Hans-Hermann Hoppe at UNLV.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe said he was "working and living side-by-side with him, in constant and immediate personal contact," and said that from 1985 until Rothbard's 1995 death, he considered Rothbard his "dearest fatherly friend".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe was active in the John Randolph Club, a far-right alliance of paleolibertarians and paleoconservatives that was organized by Rothbard and associated with the Rockford Institute.

In 2006, Hans-Hermann Hoppe founded The Property and Freedom Society, with annual conferences in Bodrum, Turkey.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe's book Democracy: The God That Failed, published in 2001, argues that democracy is a cause of civilizational decline.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe proposes alternatives and remedies, including secession, decentralization of government, and "complete freedom of contract, occupation, trade and migration".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues that monarchy would preserve individual liberty more effectively than democracy.

Janek Wasserman writes that Hans-Hermann Hoppe "reimagined the Austrian legacy as one of authoritarianism, conservatism, antidemocracy, and anti-Enlightenment".

Hawley notes that Hans-Hermann Hoppe has argued that "libertarians must actually be radical conservatives", and that libertarians must favor a right to discrimination, including on the basis of race.

Block shared what he called minor criticisms of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's theses regarding time preferences, immigration and the gap between libertarianism and conservatism.

In Democracy: The God That Failed, Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues in favor of property owners' right to establish communities with exclusive criteria for admission and acceptance.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe describes a society of "covenant communities" made up of residents who have signed an agreement defining the nature of that community.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe believes that these covenant communities should have the right to certain forms of discrimination, including the physical separation of people whose lifestyle is deemed incompatible with the norms of that community.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues that as long as states exist, they should impose some restrictions on immigration.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe has equated free immigration to "forced integration" which violates the rights of native peoples, since if land were privately owned, immigration would not be unhindered but would only occur with the consent of private property owners.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues that Hoppe's logic implies that flagrantly unlibertarian laws such as regulations on prostitution and drug use "could be defended on the basis that many tax-paying property owners would not want such behavior on their own private property".

In terms of specific immigration restrictions, Hans-Hermann Hoppe argued that an appropriate policy will require immigrants to the United States to display proficiency in English in addition to "superior intellectual performance and character structure as well as a compatible system of values".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe suggested that these criteria would lead to a "systematic pro-European immigration bias".

Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation argued that the immigration test Hans-Hermann Hoppe advocated would probably be prejudiced against Latin American immigrants to the United States.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe stated that very young and very old people, and couples without children, were less likely to plan for the future.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe told a reporter that the comments lasted only 90 seconds of a 75-minute class, no students questioned the comments, and that in 18 years of giving the lecture he had not received a complaint about them.

At the request of university officials, Hans-Hermann Hoppe apologized to the class.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe said, "Italians tend to eat more spaghetti than Germans, and Germans tend to eat more sauerkraut than Italians" and said that he was speaking in generalities.

Thereafter, Hans-Hermann Hoppe told the reporter, the student alleged that Hans-Hermann Hoppe did not take the complaint seriously and filed a formal complaint.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe told the reporter that he felt as if he was the victim in the incident and that the student should have been told to "grow up".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe appealed the decision, saying the university had "blatantly violated its contractual obligations" toward him, and described the action as "frivolous interference with my right to academic freedom".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which threatened legal action.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe dismissed the discrimination complaint against Hoppe, and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe later wrote about the incident and the UNLV investigation in an article entitled "My Battle With the Thought Police".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe asserted that any argument which in any respect purports to contradict libertarian principles is logically incoherent.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe argued that, in the course of having an argument about politics, people assume certain norms of argumentation, including a prohibition on initiating violence.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe then extrapolated this argument to political life in general, arguing that the norms governing argumentation should apply in all political contexts.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe claimed that, of all political philosophies, only anarcho-capitalist libertarianism prohibits the initiation of aggressive violence ; therefore, any argument for any political philosophy other than anarcho-capitalist libertarianism is logically incoherent.

However, the majority of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's colleagues surveyed by Liberty rejected his theory.

Mikael Olsson argued that Hans-Hermann Hoppe had not provided any non-circular reasons why we "have to regard moral values as something that must be regarded as being established through argument instead of 'mere' subjective preferences for situations turning out in certain ways".

Hans-Hermann Hoppe was an influence on the neoreactionary monarchist blogger Curtis Yarvin, known as Mencius Moldbug.