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121: 402:. The newspaper was purchased by the Nazi Party in December 1920 on the initiative of Chase Bauduin and Dietrich Eckart, who became the first editors. In 1921, Hitler acquired all shares in the company, making him the sole owner of the publication. The paper was to become Hitler’s most important propaganda tool. 514:), but kept him on largely, it seems, because of an affection for "this strange, by then penniless man, whose history he did not know, who pretended enthusiasm for the Nazi cause and admiration for the SS but who in reality seemed little interested in either, much preferring to talk about Tibetans". 218:
citizen in 1911 and was apparently adopted (under Turkish law) by the expatriate Baron Heinrich von Sebottendorff shortly thereafter. The adoption was later repeated in Germany and its legal validity has been questioned, but it was endorsed by the Sebottendorff family (Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 140–41)
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By about 1912 he became convinced that he had discovered what he called "the key to spiritual realization", described by a later historian as "a set of numerological meditation exercises that bear little resemblance to either Sufism or Masonry" (Sedgwick 2004: 66).
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in 1901, may have been a local cadre of the pre-revolutionary Secret Society of Union and Progress, founded on the model of Freemasonry by Salonican Turks to generate liberal consciousness during the repressive reign of the Sultan." (Goodrick-Clarke,
488:), dealing with the Thule Society and the DAP. Hitler himself understandably disliked this book, which was banned. Glauer was arrested, but somehow escaped (presumably due to some friendship from his Munich days) and in 1934 returned to Turkey. 405:
By then, however, Glauer had left the Thule Society and Bavaria, having been accused of negligence in allegedly allowing the names of several key Thule Society members to fall into the hands of the government of the short-lived
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between 1897 and 1900, although according to his own account he spent less than a month there in 1900 after a short career as a merchant sailor. In July of that year he travelled to
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Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 138 and see Howard 1989: 124 ("In 1901 von Sebottendorf was initiated into a Masonic lodge which, like many in the Middle East, had connections with the
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He returned to Germany in January 1933, and published "Before Hitler Came: Documents from the Early Days of the National Socialist Movement" (
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One of the books that Glauer inherited from Termudi featured a note from Hussein Pasha, which piqued his interest in the Sufi
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By 1916, Glauer had attracted only one follower. In that year, however, he came into contact with the
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By 1905 he had returned to Dresden where he married Klara Voss, but the couple divorced in 1907. The
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because of his Ottoman citizenship and because of a wound received during the First Balkan War.
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Much remains unknown about his death, some accounts claim it was suicide by jumping into the
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Secret practices of the Sufi Freemasons : the Islamic teachings at the heart of alchemy
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military. His German handler, Herbert Rittlinger, later described him as a "useless" agent (
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occultist organization where he played a key role, and that influenced many members of the
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Die Praxis der alten türkischen Freimauerei: Der Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Alchimie
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and on this basis he asserted his claim to the Sebottendorff name and to the title of
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during the period 1942–1945, while apparently also working as a double agent for the
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in July 1900. At Bursa, Glauer became acquainted with the Termudi family, who were
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Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen. "Zeittafel zur Biographie Rudolf von Sebottendorffs".
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Bevor Hitler kam: Urkundlich aus der Frühzeit der Nationalsozialistischen Bewegung
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Bevor Hitler kam: Urkundlich aus der Frühzeit der Nationalsozialistischen Bewegung
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division of the schismatic Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail. Settling in
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The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935
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was translated and published in English. The preface dates to November 1933.
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passport in 1913. He was exempted from military service during the
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Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism
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practices. Speculations say he might have converted to
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by Rudolf von Sebottendorf at archive.org. In German.
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Rudolf von Sebottendorff
Freiherr
German
occultist
writer
Thule Society
World War I
German
Nazi Party
Freemason
Sufi
Bektashi
conversion to Islam
meditation
astrology
numerology
alchemy
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Hoyerswerda
Prussian
Province of Silesia
Saxony
technician
Egypt
Turkey
engineer
Ottoman

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