Background
Alfred Baeumler was born on 19 November 1887 in Neustadt, Austria.
Alfred Baeumler was born on 19 November 1887 in Neustadt, Austria.
Alfred Baeumler received his doctorate in 1914 after studying at the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Bonn. From 1914 to 1917 he served in the Austrian army, obtaining high distinctions. Professor of Philosophy at Dresden High School from 1928, he was appointed Professor of Political Education at Berlin University in 1933, emerging as the chief liaison man between the universities and Alfred Rosenberg’s office charged with the ideological education of the Party. In 1942 he was made head of the Science Division in Rosenberg’s Ideology Department.
Nietzsche der Philosoph und Politiker
1931Männerhund und Wissenschaft
1934Politik und Erziehung
1943Alfred Rosenberg und der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts
1943For Baeumler, Nietzsche was ‘the philosopher of heroism’, of the will to power and the aristocracy of nature, whose activism was synonymous with ‘Nordic’ and soldierly values.
Quotations: In his Studien zur Deutschen Geistesgeschichte (1937) Baeumler wrote: ‘If today we see German youth on the march under the banner of the swastika, we are reminded of Nietzsche’s “untimely meditations” in which this youth was appealed to for the first time. It is our greatest hope that the state today is wide open for youth. And if today we shout “Heil Hitler’’ to this youth, at the same time we are also hailing Nietzsche.’
