Arnold Krumm-Heller

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Arnold Krumm-Heller

Heinrich Arnold Krumm-Heller, nickname Arnold, author name also Arnoldo Krumm-Heller (born April 15, 1876 in Salchendorf as Heinrich Arnold Krumm , he also adopted the maiden name of his mother Heller in Mexico; † May 19, 1949 in Marburg ) was a German adventurer, doctor, occultist , Rosicrucian and founder of the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA) , a traditional Hermetic Order that still has numerous adepts in Brazil and other countries in South America.

Life path

Emigrated to Latin America as a young man at the age of 16, studied medicine in Mexico and became a military doctor in revolutionary Mexico on the side of the revolutionaries. He received the rank of Coronel (Colonel) and the degree of Dr. hc from the University of Mexico.

Here he began methodical occult, gnostic and spiritualistic studies. He studied the work of Helena Blavatsky , Louis Claude de Saint-Martin , Gerard Encausse and Éliphas Lévi . He was a member of numerous esoteric brotherhoods, including the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), and he was contemporary of Theodor Reuss (founder of the OTO) and Harvey Spencer Lewis (Emperor of the AMORC ). He also knew Aleister Crowley who had a great influence on his mystical concepts.

In Peru he was given the symbolic name Huiracocha , under which he was primarily known in esoteric circles. After an unsteady wandering life in North and South America, he returned to Germany in 1920, where he settled in Berlin. There he ran a printing company and a publishing house to finance his activities. He bought a house in Marburg and settled there in 1939; From here he continued his Rosicrucian work during the National Socialist era through contacts to various circles at a low level. In Marburg he mainly dealt with osmotherapy , about which he published diligently.

After the capture of Marburg in 1945, the Americans made him chairman of the Red Cross , but he resigned from this position on October 1, 1946.

References to Freemasonry

Krumm-Heller also marginalized Freemasonry as a member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraim . In the Masonic magazine Zirkelkorrespondenz of the Great National Lodge of Freemasons of Germany there is a report on the meeting of the Grand Master of the Mexican Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, Br. Krumm-Heller, with the State Grand Master Müllendorff .

German-language books by Arnold Krumm-Heller

  • For freedom and justice. My experiences from the Mexican civil war. Halle (Saale) / Berlin 1917.
  • Mexico, My Homeland: Collected Treatises on the Land of the Aztecs , 2nd revised edition. Krumm-Heller, Halle (Saale) 1919
  • The Rosicrucian from Mexico. Occult novel. Halle (Saale) 1919. (Ed. Secret Knowledge, Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902640-95-6 )
  • The magic of fragrances. Osmological medicine. Schikowski, Berlin 1955.
  • From incense to osmotherapy. Astrol. Verlag Wilhelm Becker, Berlin-Steglitz 1934. (Ed. Secret Knowledge, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902705-51-8 )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Files at the Marburg district association of the German Red Cross.
  2. ^ Circular correspondence , XLV. Year No. 18, second November issue 1916, p. 529.
personal data
SURNAME Krumm-Heller, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krumm-Heller, Arnoldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German adventurer, doctor, occultist, Rosicrucian
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Salchendorf
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1949
Place of death Marburg