Alfred Baeumler
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"The Nazi philosopher, Alfred Baeumler, wrote before 1933 that "the German state of the future will not be a continuation of the work of Bismarck; it will be built out of the spirit of Nietzsche and that of the Great War" (1914-18). Baeumler was right in saying that Hitler's state was different from Bismarck's; but Nietzsche would have dismissed everything Hitler's Reich stood for just as he did in the case of Bismarck's Reich. Nevertheless, Nietzsche bears his share of responsibility for the fact that many educated Germans turned away from modern western civilization, and ultimately against all civilization. "--The Mind Of Germany the Education of a Nation |
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Alfred Baeumler (November 19, 1887 in Neustadt an der Tafelfichte (Nové Město pod Smrkem), Bohemia – March 19, 1968 in Eningen unter Achalm, near Reutlingen), was a German philosopher and pedagogue. 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.
