It can be inferred from the episode that Hohenheim is the master of a secret society in a prestigious German university, and that he teaches alchemy to respected scholars ( Haushofer included ) in pre-Nazi Germany.

Thus the concept of Lebensraum was picked up and expanded by publicists of the day, including Karl Haushofer and General Friedrich von Bernhardi.

Dietrich Bronder ( Bevor Hitler kam, 1964 ) alleged that other members of the Thule Society were later prominent in Nazi Germany: the list includes Dietrich Eckart ( who coached Hitler on his public speaking skills and had Mein Kampf dedicated to him ) as well as Gottfried Feder, Hans Frank, Hermann Göring, Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg.

Pauwels claims Karl Haushofer, the father of geopolitics whose protegee was Deputy Reich Führer Rudolf Hess, as one of the real " seekers after truth " described by Gurdjieff.

After World War I, the thoughts of Rudolf Kjellén and Ratzel were picked up and extended by a number of German authors such as Karl Haushofer ( 1869 – 1946 ), Erich Obst, Hermann Lautensach and Otto Maull.

In 1923 Karl Haushofer founded the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik ( Journal for Geopolitics ), which later proved useful to Nazi Germany propaganda.

States have, Haushofer argued, undeniable right to seek natural borders which would guarantee autarky.

More recently Haushofer's influence within the Nazi Party has been questioned ( O ' Tuathail, 1996 ) since Haushofer failed to incorporate the Nazis ' racial ideology into his work.

Karl Ernst Haushofer ( August 27, 1869 – March 10, 1946 ) was a German general, geographer and geopolitician.

Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's ideas may have influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansionist strategies, although Haushofer denied direct influence on the Nazi regime.

On his graduation from the Munich Gymnasium ( high school ), Haushofer contemplated an academic career.

Haushofer continued his career as a professional soldier, serving in the army of Imperial Germany, and rising through the Staff Corp by 1899.

Haushofer was received by the Japanese emperor and got to know many important people in politics and armed forces.

Haushofer entered academia with the aim of restoring and regenerating Germany.

Haushofer believed the Germans ' lack of geographical knowledge and geopolitical awareness to be a major cause of Germany ’ s defeat in World War I, as Germany had found itself with a poor alignment of allies and enemies.

In 1919 Haushofer became Privatdozent for political geography at Munich University and in 1933 professor.

Louis Pauwels, in his book " Monsieur Gurdjieff ", describes Haushofer as a former student of George Gurdjieff ; Others, including Pauwels, said that Haushofer created a Vril society ; and that he was a secret member of the Thule Society.

From September 24, 1945 on Karl Haushofer was informally interrogated by Father Edmund A. Walsh on behalf of the Allied forces to determine if he should stand trial at Nuremberg for war crimes.

Both drank arsenic and the wife then hanged herself while Haushofer was obviously too weak to do so too.

Haushofer developed Geopolitik from widely varied sources, including the writings of Oswald Spengler, Alexander Humboldt, Karl Ritter, Friedrich Ratzel, Rudolf Kjellén, and Halford J. Mackinder.

By 1924, as the leader of the German geopolitik school of thought, Haushofer would establish the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik monthly devoted to geopolitik.

Haushofer exercised influence both through his academic teachings, urging his students to think in terms of continents and emphasizing motion in international politics, and through his political activities.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

The islands belonged to the Pallavicini-Rusconi family of Genoa until 1874, when they were bought by the Florio family of Palermo.

He belonged to a respectable family of political background, especially since his father served as Governor of Herat who died in a battle defending the Afghans.

Haznawi belonged to a family that was part of the larger, al-Ghamdi tribe, sharing the same tribal affiliation with fellow hijackers Saeed al-Ghamdi, Hamza al-Ghamdi, and Ahmed al-Ghamdi.

** The musical dynasty to which he belonged – see Bach family

Within Colombia, the two cultures with the most complex cacicazgo systems were the Tayronas in the Caribbean region, and the Muiscas in the highlands near Bogotá, both of which belonged to the Chibchan language family.

Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells by Chirnside, Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century.

One of those arrested and imprisoned was Mirwais Hotak who belonged to an influential family in Kandahar.

Like the majority of Belgians at that time, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though were not particularly devout.

The marriage took place in Allahabad according to Adi Dharm rituals though Feroze belonged to a Parsi family of Gujarat.

Monroe was raised in a family that belonged to the Church of England when it was the state church in Virginia before the Revolution.

The Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula ( also known as Gaius ), Claudius, and Nero, or the family to which they belonged ; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the 1st century ( 44 / 31 / 27 ) BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide.

He belonged to the fourth generation of a family of potters whose traditional occupation continued through another five generations.

The family possession of the principality of Kuyavia belonged to Sigismund, who was the heir with the strongest hereditary claims.

It is noteworthy that Mani, who was brought up and spent most of his life in a province of the Persian empire, and whose mother belonged to a famous Parthian family, did not make any use of the Iranian mythological tradition.

Easton ( 1897 ) noted that it would appear from the circumstances that the family of Lazarus possessed a family vault and that a large number of Jews from Jerusalem came to console them on the death of Lazarus, that this family at Bethany belonged to the wealthier class of the people.

In a series of articles published between 1949 and 1954, he argued that Westermann's ' West Sudanic ' and Bantu formed a single genetic family, which he named Niger – Congo ; that Bantu constituted a subgroup of the Benue – Congo branch ; that Adamawa – Eastern, previously not considered to be related, was another member of this family ; and that Fula belonged to the West Atlantic languages.

Otho belonged to an ancient and noble Etruscan family, descended from the princes of Etruria and settled at Ferentinum ( modern Ferento, near Viterbo ) in Etruria.

Ottobuono belonged to a feudal family of Liguria, the Fieschi, Counts of Lavagna.

He belonged to the noble family of the Counts of Tusculum.