Ernst Issberner-Haldane

Ernst Issberner-Haldane , also Ißberner-Haldane (born June 11, 1886 in Kolberg , Pomerania Province , † 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ), was a German-Australian palm reader , yoga teacher and occultist . His best-known work, which introduces a para-scientific hand and nail diagnosis and was published until the end of the 1990s, is still used today by alternative practitioners .

Life

Issberner-Haldane lived in Kolberg until he was 18, then moved to his uncle in Berlin , where he worked in the tobacco trade and was trained as a businessman. In 1910 he emigrated via Suez ( Egypt ) and Colombo ( British Ceylon ) to what was then the British Dominion Australia . On Ceylon he met Indian clairvoyants , yogis and fakirs , whose esoteric practices and ideas inspired him. Issberner-Haldane worked on various farms in southern Australia for two years and took Australian citizenship . While traveling through South America, he began to write a work on chiromancy . Allegedly he made friends in the highlands of Peru with the traveling Persian sage "Devasvara Lama", whose esoteric teachings he took up. After another stay in Australia, he left again in 1914 to go to the United States via Germany . On a stopover in Ceylon he met a yogi who introduced him to teachings about the human aura and - he claimed - showed life images from his earlier incarnations . When Issberner-Haldane arrived in Germany, he was interned because of his Australian citizenship - Australia entered World War I on August 4, 1914, against the German Reich and its allies . Until the end of the war in 1918, he stayed in various internment camps . He then moved to Berlin, where he practiced as a palmist (chiromancer), yoga teacher and graphologist and also wrote in these subjects.

The concepts he called " Hatha , Rāja , Karma , Bhakti and Jñāna yoga " were later criticized as "self-made" teaching that did not tie in with Indian sources. He developed palm reading based on the idea that internal diseases, tendencies and personality traits would be depicted on the hands, especially the fingernails, into a "medical hand and nail diagnosis" that was incorporated into alternative medical practice. The corresponding font became a standard work in chirology in the German-speaking world .

After he co-founded the Berlin occultist group “ Svastika-Zirkel ” in 1920 , he increasingly took up ariosophical positions. This group also included the astrologer Wilhelm Wulff, who later advised the National Socialist Interior Minister Heinrich Himmler . In 1925 Issberner-Haldane got to know the ariosophical author and publisher Herbert Reichstein , in whose publishing house specializing in esoteric literature he published. In 1927 Issberner-Haldane joined the Neutempler Order of the Ariosophist Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels under the name of the order "Fra Yvo" , whom he admired as a "real Aryan genius" and whose projects he promoted. He was one of the donors who supported the establishment of a new order base on the "Hertesburg", a tower hill in Prerow ( Darß ). Together with Reinhold Ebertin , he founded the "Geistige Front" in 1933, an association of characterologists in which "Jews or other racially inferior people, physically deformed or crippled (except war invalids), charlatans, quacks and people who are to be regarded as unreliable", should generally not be included. In that year he also joined the NSDAP . In 1934 he published in the anti-Semitic weekly newspaper Der Stürmer .

His racist remarks focused on the Jews as an alleged threat to “Aryan” values. Yoga was classified by him in a racist context by urgently exhorting yoga adepts since 1928 to refine themselves racially and not to enter into mixed marriages with "lower races". In the Yogha Training for Western Conditions published in 1928, he expressed that this work was “only suitable for the Aryan, the light race”, by no means for “Negroes, Mongols and half-Negroes (Jews), but just as little for outright bastard people Sense of racial mix ”. The fact that the palmistry propagated by Issberner-Haldane had a bad reputation was partly attributed in his work Scientific Palmistry to a demonization of this practice by the church in the course of the witch hunt . He also found an antigypsy "explanation": palmistry had come into the possession of "gypsies" who, as "born criminals", "parasites" and "charlatans", were unable to "recognize the grandeur of this science", and they abused for their own benefit.

In a lecture Issberner-Haldane also commented on the existence of extraterrestrial and demonic beings:

"In addition, there are beings in the cosmos who have achieved a more or less perfect degree of development on earth as humans, but who put their spiritual knowledge at the service of the most glaring egoism and sought to improve their lives by harming others, so so-called black magicians, who cannot come back to earth for a long time, but who are limited in a certain region, on the so-called black satalite, and can only exert their spiritual influences temporarily. In addition, there are demonic beings who, also banned in a certain way, nevertheless have a certain influence on the earth and its inhabitants, and who try again and again to find suitable objects, namely media (ie mediators) with a certain relationship know how to find them, through which they can wreak havoc in the most hideous way. These beings have a tremendous thirst for life. But since they do not have the body through which they can work personally to enjoy life forces, they try to find suitable people who kill people in a lust-killing way so that blood or other fine juices come into the air, from what they then soak up as much as they possibly can in order to strengthen their powers. In this connection one thinks of the lust murderers Denke, Haarmann, Kürten and others. One can say that these demons were very spoiled by the enormous supply of vital forces as a result of so many people bleeding to death during the world war and that they were able to strengthen their power tremendously to survive after the world war of the kind mentioned, but also in other invisible ways. "

He developed a cultural theoretical point of view on the mythical island kingdom of Atlantis :

“The earliest cultural period that can be reached due to the various research methods is that of Atlantis. This continent sank about 25,000 years ago ... That the individual tribes of the Aryans, Maya, Inca, Toltecs, Egyptians, Iranians, Ario-Indians, Greeks ... once belonged together and had a center from which they emigrated, namely Atlantis, the similarities prove of the architectural style ... "

On the basis of older ideas from the cultural history of blood and gnosticism , he combined political and religious with racist and esoteric concepts in a syncretistic way, with a particular focus on a Protestant target group:

“A new Martin Luther must come and bring a Christianity that no longer has anything to do with denominations that only bring disputes among the people. - One race, one people, one real leader, one blood, one belief! A belief that has eternal value: cosmic religion ... [God] is understood by individual people and peoples as the blood (race) of them allows, because the blood is the seat of the soul ... "

The völkisch and racist thoughts in Issberner-Haldane's writings did not prevent the National Socialist regime from banning the writings , such as his autobiography Der Chiromant (1925) and the books Menschen und Menschen (1927) and Handwriting Interpretation (1928). 1940 followed the ban on other writings. After Rudolf Hess , Adolf Hitler's deputy , had flown to Great Britain in 1941 without an official mandate to persuade the British government to conclude a peace treaty with the "Greater German Reich" during World War II , the National Socialist government, particularly astrologers, accepted Hess's complicity. Action promised to arrest leading astrologers, occultists and esotericists in an "astrologer raid" . Issberner-Haldane was also one of the more than 300 prisoners. He then had to spend four years in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After the Second World War, new editions of Issberner Haldane's writings, in which ariosophical and racist passages were removed, were not always published in full. After 1945 he also published some more or less new writings, whereby at least until 1961 he assigned himself the title of Professor honoris causa at an unknown university. He died in 1966. His surviving wife, Rita Issberner-Haldane, also practiced and published in the subjects of palmistry and graphology.

Fonts (selection)

• Scientific palmistry (chirosophy) based on cleaned old sources and 20 years of own studies and practical experience at home and abroad , Berlin 1921 (further editions 1925, 1932, 1982, 1986, the scientific palmistry - chirosophy. The wisdom of the hand . Freiburg im Breisgau 1991).
• The chiromancer. Career, memories from travels and from the practice of a chirosopher, with lectures and considerations for a higher worldview , Bad Oldesloe 1925 (2nd edition Neckargmünd 1932, 3rd edition under the title My own path. Career, memories of journeys and from practice one seeker , Zeulenroda 1936).
• Handwriting interpretation , Leipzig 1928.
• Yogha training for western conditions , Pforzheim 1928 (2nd edition under the title The cosmic religion of the titans. The new man (Yogha training) , Leipzig 1935).
• Characterological facts and their features , Lorch 1929.
• Lexicon of scientific palmistry and the professional aptitude test according to chirosophy , Berlin 1931.
• How do I measure events in my hands? In: Scherl's Magazin , Issue 6, June 1931, Volume 7, pp. 556 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Medical hand and nail diagnostics in words and pictures - For doctors and healers , Berlin 1932 (new editions Freiburg 1960–1999; 1998 edition: The medical hand and nail diagnostics. The standard work of chirology ).
• Married life and choice of marriage according to body form studies and astrology , Berlin 1932.
• Astrology - Introduction to Horoscopes , 1933.
• Aryan wisdom. Enlightening treatises on the individual areas of the humanities based on personal experience and the like. Experiences, witnessing etc. reliable reports , Zeulenroda 1935.
• Become a successful person. A training course aimed at personal success in everyday life , Berlin 1938.
• Ancient wisdom. Enlightening treatises on the individual areas of the humanities based on personal experience and the like. Experiences, witnessing etc. reliable reports , Zurich 1947 (new edition of Arisches Weistum. Enlightening treatises on the individual areas of the humanities on the basis of personal experience and experiences, co-experience and reliable reports , Zeulenroda 1935).
• Cosmic religion. Yoga training and dietetics of the soul , Berlin approx. 1950 (new edition of Yogha training for western conditions , Pforzheim 1928, however ariosophical approaches removed).
• Practical textbook of Kabbalah , Berlin 1954 (new edition of Herbert Reichstein's practical textbook of ariosophical Kabbalistic studies , 1931).
• The human soul. Real-Psychologie , Biel (Switzerland) 1958.
• The Kabbalah of Zoroaster , Berlin 1961.
• Lexicon of Character Traits , self-published 1965.
• Yoga in everyday life .
• The art of reading by hand , Berlin 1999.

Web links

• Ernst Issberner-Haldane , biography in AstroWiki

See also

• Right-wing extremism and esotericism

literature

• Ellic Howe : Astrology and the Third Reich , Aquarian Press, Wellingborough 1984 ( Urania's Children , revised and expanded), p. 111-112. - German edition: Urania's children. The strange world of astrologers and the Third Reich , ed. And translated from English. by Franz Isfort, Beltz Athenaeum, Weinheim 1995.
• Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : The Occult Roots of National Socialism , Wiesbaden 2004, p. 146 f.
• Ekkehard Hieronimus: Lanz von Liebenfels. A bibliography . Toppenstedter series 11, Toppenstedt 1991, p. 27.
• Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of Secret Knowledge , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1976, p. 213

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Baier : Yoga on the way to the west . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-8260-1414-6 , p. 130 ( online at Google Books )
2. ↑ Chirology ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article in the portal igw-resch-verlag.at ( Andreas Resch : Lexikon der Paranormologie , Volume 3), accessed on December 26, 2014. 
3. ↑ Daniel Nösler: Vineta and Rethra? On the reception history of a medieval castle on the Darß . In: Sabine Rieckhoff, Susanne Grunwald, Karin Reichbach (eds.): Burgwallforschung in the academic and public discourse of the 20th century . (= Leipzig research on prehistoric and early historical archeology, No. 5), Leipzig 2009, p. 204 ( PDF )
4. ^ Franz Wegener: New Vineta. The racial settlement plans of the Ariosophers for the Darß and Zingst peninsulas . Kulturförderverein Ruhrgebiet eV, Gladbeck 2010, ISBN 978-3-931300-26-5 , p. 24 ( online at Google Books )
5. ↑ Kocku von Stuckrad : History of Astrology . P. 331 f.
6. ^ Peter Staudenmaier: Between occultism and Nazism: anthroposophy and the politics of race in the fascist era . 1965, ISBN 978-90-04-26407-6 , p. 239 ( online at Google Books )
7. ↑ Bernd Wedemeier-Kolwe: "The new person". Physical culture in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2772-8 , p. 152 ( online at Google Books )
8. ^ Mathias Tietke: Yoga and National Socialism . In: yoga aktuell , 2014 ( online )
9. ↑ Felix Wiedemann: Race mother and Rebellin. Images of witches in romanticism, folk movement, neo-paganism and feminism . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3679-8 , p. 149.
10. ↑ Are you medial? , Leipzig 1937, p. 8 f.
11. ↑ Franz Wegener, p. 21 f.
12. ^ Karl Denke , Fritz Haarmann , Peter Kürten
13. ↑ Franz Wegener, p. 19.
14. ↑ Franz Wegener, p. 19
15. ↑ Ernst Issberner-Haldane , website in the portal verbrannte-und-verbnte.de , accessed on December 25, 2014
16. ↑ Search result Issberner-Haldane, Ernest , website in the portal berlin.de , accessed on December 25, 2014
17. ↑ More detailed description of the role of astrologer and Issberner-Haldane in: Joseph Howard Tyson: The Surreal Reich . iUniverse, Bloomington / Indiana 2010, ISBN 978-1-4502-4019-2 , pp. 279, 285 ( online at Google Books )
18. ↑ Yoga of the Nazis: Interview with Mathias Tietke ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the portal yogaservice.de (2013), accessed on December 25, 2014 
19. ↑ Cf. foreword to the 6th edition by Herbert Reichstein: Practical textbook of Kabbala . - Kabbalah , website in the portal hbriele.de , accessed on December 25, 2014
20. ↑ See Ernst Issberner-Haldane: Die Kabbala des Zoroaster , Verlag Richard Schikowski, Berlin 1961