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Rudolf von Sebottendorf

1875 - 1945

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Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer (9 November 1875 – 8 May 1945), also known as Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or Sebottendorf) was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He was the founder of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization where he played a key role, and that influenced many members of the Nazi Party. He was a Freemason, a Sufi of the Bektashi order - after his conversion to Islam - and a practitioner of meditation, astrology, numerology, and alchemy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf von Sebottendorf has received more than 210,545 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rudolf von Sebottendorf is the 1,172nd most popular writer (down from 1,114th in 2019), the 1,168th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,118th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Writer.

Rudolf von Sebottendorf was a German occultist and member of the Thule Society. He is most famous for his involvement in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.

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Notable Works

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Over the past year Rudolf von Sebottendorf has had the most page views in the with 36,222 views, followed by Turkish (21,594), and German (20,377). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (465.84%), Malagasy (92.34%), and Irish (84.40%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rudolf von Sebottendorf ranks 1,172 out of 7,302Before him are Gottfried Benn, Mercè Rodoreda, Polyaenus, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Ugo Foscolo, and E. Howard Hunt. After him are Giovanni Papini, Francesco Maria Piave, Sadriddin Ayni, Joachim du Bellay, Kenji Miyazawa, and Hristo Botev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Rudolf von Sebottendorf ranks 39Before him are Anatoly Lunacharsky, Othenio Abel, Sisowath Monivong, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Cléo de Mérode, and Thomas Burke. After him are Mistinguett, Franco Alfano, Birsa Munda, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Nobuyuki Abe, and Ludwig Prandtl. Among people deceased in 1945, Rudolf von Sebottendorf ranks 88Before him are Hans Oster, John Ambrose Fleming, Plutarco Elías Calles, Georg Kaiser, Elisabeth Volkenrath, and Josef Terboven. After him are Kurt Gerstein, Walter Bradford Cannon, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Hans Kammler, and Josef Čapek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf von Sebottendorf ranks 1,168 out of 7,253Before him are James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Pascual Jordan (1902), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575). After him are Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), Alfred Krupp (1812), Johann Elert Bode (1747), Mesut Özil (1988), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), and Horst Tappert (1923).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Rudolf von Sebottendorf ranks 76Before him are Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), August von Kotzebue (1761), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), and Gottfried Benn (1886). After him are Radegund (518), Theodor Storm (1817), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), and Siegfried Kracauer (1889).