Herbert Reichstein

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Herbert Reichstein (born January 25, 1892 in Haynau , † 1944 in Freiburg) was an occult - racist author and publisher of various esoteric and ariosophical writings. He worked closely with Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels since the mid-1920s .

biography

Reichstein was born on January 25, 1892 in Haynau (today Chojnów) in Silesia, but there is hardly any information about his childhood and youth biography, so that the first activities date back to 1925. The publications Guido von Lists have been an important influence since the beginning of his writing activities .

In autumn 1925 contact arose with various members (and later employees) of a Berlin occultist group, which internally called itself the "Svastika Circle", and in which various esoteric teachings such as chiromantics or astrology met, which were also part of its ideological conglomerate, which Reichstein in October 1925 with his newly founded "German Working Group for Knowledge of Human Beings and Human Fate" or the official organ of the organization. At the same time, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels approached him during this time and looked for a new publisher.

He died little known in Freiburg in 1944.

Selection of works (as editor and author)

Periodicals

  • Journal for Knowledge of Human Beings and Fate Research (1926–1927)
  • Journal for Spiritual and Scientific Reform (1928–1933)
  • Arische Rundschau (from 1933)

Book series

  • Ariosophical Library - 23 volumes (1925–1929)
  • The wisdom of the people - 5 volumes (1934–1935)

Books

  • Why ariosophy? (1926)
  • Practical textbook of ariosophical Kabbalistic studies (1931)
  • Solved riddles of ancient history - from Edda, Atlantis and the Bible (Das Weistum des Volkes, Vol. 2, 1934)
  • Practical Textbook of Kabbalah - Magic and Mysticism of Names and Numbers ; 6th greatly changed and increased edition, reissued by Prof. hc Ernst Issberner-Haldane , Verlag Richard Schikowski, Berlin 1961.

literature

  • Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Herbert Reichstein and the Ariosophie in: The occult roots of National Socialism . Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-48-7 , pp. 145-154