Haushofer, Karl

Japanese: ハウスホーファー（英語表記）Haushofer， Karl

Born: August 27, 1869 in Munich
[Died] March 13, 1946. German political geographer near Weilheim in southern Bavaria. Born as the son of a professor at the University of Munich, he served as a brigadier general in the military until the end of World War I. He served in Japan from 1908 to 1910. He became aware of the global issues of political geography, and in 1924 founded the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik (Geopolitical Report). He lectured on geopolitics at the University of Munich in the 1920s and 1930s, and his theories were used by his student R. Hess to justify the aggressive policies of Nazi Germany. In 1944, towards the end of World War II, his son Albrecht, who was a professor at the University of Berlin, was arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement in the July 20th incident. After the war, he was found not guilty at the Nuremberg Trials, but he committed suicide together with his wife in grief over his son's death. Main author: "Geopolitik des pazifischen Ozeans" (1924).

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[生]1869.8.27. ミュンヘン
[没]1946.3.13. 南バイエルン，ワイルハイム近郊
ドイツの政治地理学者。ミュンヘン大学教授の息子として生れ，第1次世界大戦の終りまで軍人 (准将) 。 1908～10年日本に軍務で滞在。政治地理学の世界的規模の諸問題に目ざめ，24年『地政学報』 Zeitschrift für Geopolitikを創刊。 20～30年代はミュンヘン大学で地政学を講義，彼の理論は教え子の R.ヘスを通じてナチス・ドイツの侵略主義の正当化に利用された。第2次世界大戦末期の 1944年ベルリン大学で教授をしていた息子のアルプレヒトが七月二十日事件に関連したためゲシュタポに逮捕された。戦後ニュルンベルク裁判で無罪となったが，息子の死を悲しみ妻とともに自殺。主著"Geopolitik des pazifischen Ozeans" (1924) 。

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