Wilhelm Wolf (other)
Wilhelm Wolf may refer to: *Wilhelm Wolff, 19th-century socialist *Wilhelm Wulff, 20th-century occultist associated with The Occult Roots of Nazism *Wilhelm Wolf, one of the Nazis who died in Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch *Wilhelm Wolf (1897-1939), Nazi politician and last Austrian foreign minister before the Anschluss *Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735-1792), German composer *Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (April 6, 1816 in Fehrbellin – May 30, 1887) was a German sculptor and journalist who specialized in the depiction of animals in metal giving him the nickname of "Tier-Wolff". The son of a tailor, Wolff became an appren ...

Wilhelm Wolff
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff, nicknamed "Lupus" (21 June 1809 – 9 May 1864) was a German schoolmaster, political activist and publicist. Life Wolff was born in Tarnau, Kreis Schweidnitz, Silesia (now Tarnawa, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Gmina Żarów, Poland) in to a family of farmers. In 1831 he became active as a radical student organization member, for which he was imprisoned between 1834 and 1838. In 1846, in Brussels, Wolff became a close friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He was active in the Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee and a member of the League of the Just in addition to being co-founder of the League of Communists in 1848 as a member of its central authority. He served as an editor of the ''Neue Rheinische Zeitung'' in 1848-1849 and as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. Wolff emigrated to Switzerland in 1849 and then to England in 1851. Legacy On his death, Wolff left a substantial fortune to Marx, who dedicated the first volume ...
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The Occult Roots Of Nazism
''The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935'' is a book about Nazi occultism and Ariosophy by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who traces some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945. The foreword is by Rohan Butler, who had written ''The Roots of National Socialism'' in the 1930s. The book is based on Goodrick-Clarke's 1982 Ph.D. thesis ''The ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935: Reactionary political fantasy in relation to social anxiety''. This book has been continually in print since its first publication in 1985, and has been translated into twelve languages, including Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek.German edition, front jacket It was republished as a paperback by New York University Press in 1992 (), and more recently republished by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (). The German edition features a preface and an additional essay ''Nationalsozialismus und Ok ...
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Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed schoolshistory.org.uk, accessed 2008-05-31.Known in German as the or was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8– 9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic. Approximately two thousand Nazis marched on the , in the city centre, but were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the deaths of 16 Nazi Party members and four police officers. Hitler escaped immediate arrest and was spirited off to safety in the countryside. After two days, he was arrested and charged with treason. The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation for the first time and generated front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. His arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which was widely publicised and gave him a platform to express his nationalist sentiments to the nation. Hitler was found guilty of treason ...
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Anschluss
The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany") began after the unification of Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the Prussian-dominated German Empire in 1871. Following the end of World War I with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918, the newly formed Republic of German-Austria attempted to form a union with Germany, but the Treaty of Saint Germain (10 September 1919) and the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) forbade both the union and the continued use of the name "German-Austria" (); and stripped Austria of some of its territories, such as the Sudetenland. Prior to the , there had been strong support in both Austria and Germany for unification of the two countries. In the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy—with ...
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Ernst Wilhelm Wolf
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (baptised 25 February 1735 – 29 or 30 November 1792) was a German composer. Life Wolf was born in Grossen Behringen in Thuringia, today part of the Hörselberg-Hainich municipality. His elder brother Ernst Friedrich was a composer and organist who studied under Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Ernst Wilhelm's musical talent manifested itself early, and already by age nine he was a skilled harpsichordist, particularly apt at figured bass realization. Wolf attended gymnasiums at Eisenach and at Gotha, where he became a choir prefect. It was in Gotha that Wolf first heard the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Carl Heinrich Graun; he was particularly fascinated with Bach's work. The admiration was mutual: a performance of some of Wolf's compositions in 1752 drew praise from Bach. Wolf and Bach's friendship lasted throughout their lives; Wolf helped collect subscriptions for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's ''für Kenner und Liebhaber'' (for Connoisseurs and Amateurs ...
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