Alfred Baeumler

Alfred Baeumler (sometimes Bäumler; ; 19 November 1887 – 19 March 1968), was an Austrian-born pedagogue and prominent Nazi ideologue. From 1924 he taught at the Technische Universität Dresden, at first as an unsalaried lecturer Privatdozent. Bäumler was made associate professor (Extraordinarius) in 1928 and full professor (Ordinarius) a year later. From 1933 he taught philosophy and political education in Berlin as the director of the Institute for Political Pedagogy.

Biography
An influential philosopher in Nazi Germany, Baeumler used Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy to legitimize Nazism. Thomas Mann read Baeumler's work on Nietzsche in the early 1930s, and characterized passages of it as "Hitler prophecy".  Baeumler's 1931 book Nietzsche, der Philosoph und Politiker states:

His books were published in Italy in the late 1990s by the Edizioni di Ar, a far-right publishing house.

Works
Studien zur deutschen Geistesgeschichte. Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1937.
Politik und Erziehung. Reden und Aufsätze. Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1937. (Collected speeches and essays).
Männerbund und Wissenschaft. Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1934.
Nietzsche, der Philosoph und Politiker. Leipzig: Reclam, 1931.
Nietzsches Philosophie in Selbstzegunissen. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Alfred Baeumler. Leipzig: Reclam, 1931.
Die Unschuld des Werdens. Der Nachlass, ausgewählt und geordnet von Alfred Baeumler. Leipzig: Kröner, 1931. (Collection of unpublished writings by Nietzsche).
Bachofen und Nietzsche. Zurich: Verlag der Neuen Schweizer Rundschau, 1929.
Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft, ihre Geschichte und Systematik. 2 vols. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 1923.

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