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...
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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.
One of the few influential philosophers in Nazi Germany, Baeumler used Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy to legitimize Nazism — an ideologically motivated misinterpretation critiqued by post-war scholarship. German-American scholar Walter Kaufmann called Baeumler "one of the worst Nazi hacks" 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...
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