!!!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, 
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