Richard Oehler (; 27 February 1878, Heckholzhausen,

Hesse-Nassau The Province of Hesse-Nassau () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944. Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the p ...

– 13 November 1948,

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) was a German

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, Prose poetry, prose poet, cultural critic, Philology, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philo ...

scholar – an early editor of the philosopher's works, and author of ''Friedrich Nietzsche und die deutsche Zukunft'' (Leipzig: Armanen-Verlag, 1935), which has been characterized by Walter Kaufmann as "one of the first

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

books on Nietzsche" (''Basic Writings of Nietzsche'', New York: The Modern Library, 2000, p. 387, n. 27). His brother was

Max Oehler Max Oehler (; December 29, 1875 – March 1946) was a German army officer and archivist for the "Nietzsche-Archiv." Oehler pursued his career in the German Empire's military until the end of World War I and the German November Revolution. Under ...

, who directed the

Nietzsche Archive The Nietzsche Archive (German: ''Nietzsche-Archiv'') is the first organization that dedicated itself to archive and document the life and work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, all sourced from Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, the philosopher ...

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

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. The Oehlers were family relations of the Nietzsches.

References

Ernst Klee Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was concer ...

, ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945.'' S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 440. 1878 births 1948 deaths People from Limburg-Weilburg People from Hesse-Nassau German scholars Nazi Party politicians Militant League for German Culture members Förderndes Mitglied der SS SS personnel Nietzsche scholars {{Germany-academic-bio-stub