Education
He studied philosophy and German philology at the University of Leipzig and got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1905.
philosopher university professor
He studied philosophy and German philology at the University of Leipzig and got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1905.
Subsequently he continued his studies in Berlin. Later he returned to Leipzig, where he received the status of Privatdozent at the university in 1911. In 1916 he was awarded the position of Ausserordentlicher Professor (professor without chair).
He developed a religious philosophy with mystical aspects.
He officially joined the Nazi Party in 1930. In his theology work Die 25 Thesen der Deutschreligion (Twenty-five Points of the German Religion), he held that the Old Testament and portions of the New Testament of the Bible were unsuitable for use in Germany.
He claimed that Jesus was of Aryan descent and that he was not a Jew. Bergmann described Adolf Hitler as the new messiah.
In 1945, he committed suicide after the Allied forces captured Leipzig.
Later he embraced the ideas of the National Socialist German Workers Party and became one of its prominent academic propagators.