Ewald Banse (born 23 May 1883 in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

– died 31 October 1953 in Braunschweig) was a German

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Banse was a professor at the technical college in his native city. Allied propaganda cited Banse's main work, ''Raum und Volk im Weltkriege'' ("Space and People in the World War") (1925), as proof of Germany's war lust. Banse advocated the union of all areas settled by Germans in a Great German Reich extending far beyond the 1914 frontiers. To achieve this he expressly demanded military action. The warrior was to be the carrier of the coming rule of "Nordic nobility".

References

*Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). ''

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''. Macmillan, New York.

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* 1883 births 1953 deaths Writers from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig German geographers 20th-century geographers {{Geographer-stub