Thule Society
German nationalist and occultist movement (1918-25) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Thule Society (/ˈtuːlə/; German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, named after a mythical northern country in Greek legend. The society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers' Party), which was later reorganized by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party). According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's "membership list ... reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich", including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, and Karl Harrer.[2]
Thule Society Thule-Gesellschaft | |
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German name | Thule-Gesellschaft |
Abbreviation | Thuleorden |
Leader | Walter Nauhaus[1] |
Founder | Rudolf von Sebottendorf |
Founded | 1918; 106 years ago (1918) |
Dissolved | 1925; 99 years ago (1925) |
Split from | Germanenorden |
Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
Newspaper | Münchener Beobachter |
Membership | 1,500 (peak) |
Ideology | |
Religion | Ariosophy |
Author Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke contends that Hans Frank and Rudolf Hess had been Thule members, but other leading Nazis had only been invited to speak at Thule meetings or they were entirely unconnected with it.[3][4] According to Johannes Hering, "There is no evidence that Hitler ever attended the Thule Society."[5]