Otto Maull (8 May 1887 – 16 December 1957) was a German

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and geopolitician. He taught

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at University of Graz, in

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, and was the author of several books, including ''("Political geography"'' 1925, ''"Introduction in to geopolitics"'', 1928, etc.). He spent time in

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, about which he wrote extensively in a series of papers. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Zeitschrift, and subscribed to the theory of the organic state as a collection of spatial cells (regions, cities etc.), each with a life of its own. Maull was at one time part of a team led by former military commander and political geographer

Karl Haushofer Karl Ernst Haushofer (27 August 1869 – 10 March 1946) was a German general, professor, geographer, and politician. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's conception of Geopolitik influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansi ...

. Haushofer was a close associate of Rudolf Hess and called for

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, the

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and Japan to form a Eurasian panregion.

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