Max Kommerell

Max Kommerell
Born	(1902-02-25)25 February 1902 Münsingen, German Empire
Died	25 July 1944(1944-07-25) (aged 42) Marburg, Nazi Germany
Spouses	Eva Otto ​ ​ (m. 1931; div. 1936)​ Erika Franck ​ (m. 1938)​
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Marburg
Thesis	Jean Pauls Verhältnis zu Rousseau ("Jean Paul's Relation to Rousseau") (1924)
Doctoral advisor	Ernst Elster [de][1]
Influences	Stefan George
Academic work
Discipline	Literary history
School or tradition	George circle (1921–1930) Conservative Revolution
Institutions	University of Frankfurt am Main (1930–1941) University of Marburg (1941–1944)

Max Kommerell (25 February 1902 – 25 July 1944) was a German literary historian, writer, and poet. A member of the Stefan George circle from 1921 to 1930, Kommerell was a prominent literary critic associated with the Conservative Revolutionary movement in the Weimar Republic and subsequently a leading intellectual in Nazi Germany and a member of the Nazi Party from 1941, though one of his works was banned by the Nazi government in 1943.