Nazi philosopher who presented Nietzsche as the philosopher of National Socialism and edited the Kröner Nietzsche edition
Full professor at the TH Dresden from 1929, he began in the late 1920s to present Nietzsche as the philosopher of National Socialism. In Nietzsche, the Philosopher and Politician (1931) he wrote that the German state of the future would be born of the spirit of Nietzsche and of the Great War, and from 1930 he edited the Kröner Nietzsche edition, which included The Will to Power, the compilation of the notes made by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast. He joined the Nazi Party in May 1933, took a chair of political pedagogy in Berlin and opened the Berlin book burning with his lecture "Against the Un-German Spirit". From 1934 he headed the science office of the Rosenberg Office, vetting university appointments, and after the war he was interned for three years.
Also known as: Alfred Bäumler · Albin Alfred Baeumler
Activities and affiliations
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1924–1945
Germany state institutionsProfessor of philosophy at the TH Dresden and the University of BerlinMain
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1933–1945
Scholarship and theory
- Head of the science office, Rosenberg Office1934–1945Ideology and propaganda
Career Timeline
- 1914Doctorate at Munich on Kant's aesthetics
- 1924Lecturer at the TH Dresden
- 1929Full professor at the TH Dresden
- 1930Co-founded the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur; began the Kröner Nietzsche edition
- 1931Nietzsche, the Philosopher and Politician
- 1933Joined the Nazi Party; chair of philosophy and political pedagogy in Berlin
- 1934Head of the science office of the Rosenberg Office
- 1942Head of the planning office of the Hohe Schule
- 1945–1948Interned at Hammelburg and Ludwigsburg