Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
Born(1876-04-23)23 April 1876
Solingen, Westphalia, German Empire
Died30 May 1925(1925-05-30) (aged 49)
Berlin, Weimar Germany
Spouse
(m. 1897; div. 1904)

Arthur Wilhelm Ernst Victor Moeller van den Bruck (23 April 1876 – 30 May 1925) was a German cultural historian, philosopher, and key intellectual figure of the Conservative Revolution.

As an author and political theorist, he remains best known for his controversial 1923 book Das Dritte Reich ("The Third Reich"), which promoted German nationalism and ended up strongly influencing the NSDAP; despite his open opposition and numerous criticisms of Adolf Hitler.[1]

From 1906 to 1922, he also published Elisabeth Kaerrick's first full German translation of Dostoyevsky's written works.

  1. ^ Krebs, Gerhard (1941). "Moeller van den Bruck: Inventor of the "Third Reich"". American Political Science Review. 35 (6): 1085–1105. doi:10.2307/1950548. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1950548. S2CID 147024080.