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Guido von List Society
A look at the signatories of the first announcement concerning support for a
Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft (Guido von List Society), circa 1905, reveals that
List had a following of some very prestigious people and shows that List, his
ideology and his influence had widespread and significant support, including
that amongst public figures in Austria and Germany. Among some 50 signatories
which endorsed the foundation of the List Society (which had an official
founding ceremony on March 2, 1908) were the industrialist Friedrich Wannieck
and his son Friedrich Oskar Wannieck, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, and Karl Lueger
(the mayor of Vienna). These supporters also included occultists such as Hugo
Göring (editor of theosophical literature at Weimar), Harald Arjuna Grävell van
Jostenoode (theosophical author at Heidelberg), Max Seiling (an esoteric
pamphleteer and popular philosopher in Munich), and Paul Zillmann (editor of the
Metaphysische Rundschau and master of an occult lodge in Berlin)
Dr. Karl Lueger, mayor of ViennaList's influence continued to grow and attract
distinctive members after the official founding of the society in 1908. From
1908 through to 1912, new members included the deputy Beranek (co-founder of the
"Bund der Germanen" in 1894), Philipp Stauff (a Berlin journalist and later a
founding member of the Germanenorden), Franz Hartmann (a leading German
theosophist), Karl Heise (a leading figure in the vegetarian and mystical
Mazdaznan cult at Zürich), and the collective membership of the Vienna
Theosophical Society.
As the list demonstrates, the growth of nationalism within Germany during the
late 19th to early 20th century, culminating in the Third Reich of Nazi Germany,
provided an ideal audience of people who were already predisposed to accept
List's ideas and unidentifiable personal gnosis of the Armanen way. The register
shows that List's ideas were acceptable to many intelligent persons drawn from
the upper and middle classes of Austria and Germany. So impressed were they that
these men were prepared to contribute ten crowns as an annual society
subscription. The main part of the Society's assets derived from the Wannieck
family, which put up more than three thousand crowns at the Society's
inauguration.
The Society's inner circle was called the High Armanen Order or Hoher Armanen
Orden.
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