Lanz, Josef#
Klostername Georg, nannte sich Lanz von Liebenfels
Lanz, Josef (as a monk Georg, called himself "L. von Liebenfels"), b. Vienna, July 19, 1874, d. Vienna, April 22, 1954, misguided racial ideologist, founder of a sect. 1893-1899 Cistercian in the monastery of Heiligenkreuz, where he thought he saw a Templar on a gravestone, founded the extra-ecclesiastical "Order of the New Temple", acquired Werfenstein castle in Upper Austria for his order and published bizarre racial theories in which he developed his concept of the victory of blond, blue-eyed Aryans over "inferior" races (i.e. Jews, Slavs). His magazine "Ostara" (appeared from 1905) influenced the Nazi ideology of A. Hitler. After 1938 banned from publishing texts.
Publications#
Rassentueml. Erziehung, 1912; Rassenmischung und Rassenentmischung, 1912; Der Weltkrieg als Rassenkrieg der Dunklen gegen die Blonden, 1927; Biblimystikon oder die Geheimbibel der Eingeweihten, 4 vols., 1928-1932.Literature#
W. Daim, Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab, 31995; NDB.