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Nazi philosophers or Nazi intellectuals were philosophers, thinkers, poets, or opinion-makers, who were members of the Nazi Party or who’s ideas – writings – speeches furthered the Nazi or Fascist parties. In addition, the list includes other such persons whose ideas were explicitly taken up at the time by Nazi ideology or Fascist ideology especially in relationship to racism.

It should be noted that Nazism is actually a contraction of the German word Nationalsozialismus, derived from the official German name of Hitler’s party, Nationalsozialische Deutsche Arbeterpartei, NSDAP. It is considered by many scholars to be a form of fascism. While it incorporated elements from both political wings, it formed most of its alliances on the political right. Hence the inclusion of individuals that many consider or know only as Fascist.

We also include here philosophers or intellectuals who were actively suppressed by the Nazi regime. In a sense this destructive or barbaric approach of Nazism to the history of philosophy may be even be more relevant to the topic of Nazi philosophy.

Philosophers, Sociologists

 * Martin Heidegger (was a member of the Nazi party)
 * Arnold Gehlen(was a member of the Nazi party)
 * Robert Michels
 * Giovanni Gentile
 * Henri de Man (1885-1953) ― Belgian revisionist socialist who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Philosophers, Sociologists, who were Used or Misused by the Nazi or Fascist parties

 * Vilfredo Pareto,
 * Friedrich Nietzsche,
 * Arthur Schopenhauer,

Philosophers, Sociologists who were suppressed by the Nazi regime

 * Husserl,
 * Karl Marx,
 * Freud,
 * Max Scheler,

Political Scientists, Legal Scientists

 * Carl Schmitt(was a member of the Nazi party)
 * Madison Grant
 * Sergio Panunzio
 * Arthur Seyss-Inquart
 * Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, historian.

Theologians, Anthropologists, Ethnologists, Culturalists, Linguists

 * Alfred Rosenberg(was a member of the Nazi party)


 * Alfred Baeumler
 * Emile Burnouf
 * Paul de Lagarde
 * Arthur de Gobineau
 * Adolf Stoecker
 * Bernhard Förster

Writers, Artists

 * Ernst Jünger (he later fell out with the Nazi party though was a member initially)


 * Ezra Pound

Writers, Artists, who were Used or Misused by the Nazi or Fascist parties

 * Richard Wagner
 * Carl Jung
 * Jakob Wilhelm Hauer

Writers, Artists who were suppressed by the Nazi regime
Almost all modernist art was considered degenerate by the Nazi regime. Amongst those who were suppressed both during the Nazi books Burnings and the attempt to destroy modernist fine art in the "degenerate"art exhibition were :


 * Ernest Hemingway,
 * Bertolt Brecht,
 * Thomas Mann,
 * John Dos Passos,
 * Max Brod,
 * Marc Chagall,
 * Vincent van Gogh,
 * Henri Matisse,
 * Pablo Picasso,
 * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
 * Max Beckmann,
 * Alexander Archipenko,
 * James Ensor

Biologists, Zoologists, Physicians

 * Hans F. K. Günther(was a member of the Nazi party)


 * Alfred Ploetz(was a member of the Nazi party)
 * Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

Politicians, Polemicists, Journalists, Publishers
We do not include all political figures, many of the more well knows ones for whom it could be argued were influential ideologically and hence philosophically if only locally so.


 * Dietrich Eckart (was a member of the Nazi party)
 * Julius Streicher (was a member of the Nazi party)
 * Engelbert Dollfuss
 * Kurt Schuschnigg
 * Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg
 * Staf De Clercq
 * Léon Degrelle
 * Hendrik Elias
 * Bert Eriksson
 * Remi Schrijnen
 * Mid'hat Bey Frashëri
 * Shefqet Bej Vërlaci

Bankers, Corporate bodies

 * Kurt von Schroeder