Drexler was also a member of a völkisch political club for affluent members of Munich society known as the Thule Society.

Category: Thule Society members

Category: Thule Society members

The Nazi era Thule Society reported much about Tibetan myths of openings into the Earth.

In the 20th century Ossian became an exemplar of an imagined golden age of primitive pre-industrial culture to groups ranging from the Thule Society to the environmental movement.

* Thule Society, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party

Rosenberg had also been a member of the Thule Society, with Eckart.

Category: Thule Society members

The DAP was founded in Munich in the hotel " Fürstenfelder Hof " on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler, a member of the occultist Thule Society.

Drexler was encouraged to found the DAP by his mentor, Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-Germanist Union ), a director of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, also a member of the Thule Society, and his wish was for a party which was both in touch with the masses and nationalist, unlike the middle class parties.

On March 24, 1919, Karl Harrer ( a sports journalist and member of the Thule Society ) joined the DAP to increase the influence of the Thule Society over the DAP's activities, and the party name was changed to the " Political Workers ' Circle ".

The ideology may hearken to the preoccupations with paganism and esotericism practised by various officials and organisations in the Nazi era, such as Alfred Rosenberg and Thule Society.

The Thule Society (; ), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (" Study Group for Germanic Antiquity "), was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend.

However, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, an expert on the Thule Society, finds that while Hans Frank and Rudolf Hess had been Thule members, other leading Nazis had only been guests of the Thule or entirely unconnected with it.

There is no evidence that Hitler ever attended the Thule Society.

The two men became associates in a recruitment campaign, and Sebottendorff adopted Nauhaus's Thule Society as a cover-name for his Munich lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater at its formal dedication on 18 August 1918.

In 1917 people who wanted to join the " Germanic Order ", out of which the Thule Society developed in 1918, had to sign a special " blood declaration of faith " concerning the lineage:

The Thule Society attracted about 250 followers in Munich and about 1, 500 in greater Bavaria.

The followers of the Thule Society were, by Sebottendorff's own admission, little interested in occultist theories, instead they were interested in racism and combating Jews and Communists.

At about the same time, the technology of the Thule people developed in northwestern Alaska and very quickly spread over the entire area occupied by Eskimo people, though it was not necessarily adopted by all of them.

The name Thule was chosen because it was the most northerly trading post in the world, literally the " Ultima Thule ".

The Second Thule Expedition ( 1916 – 1918 ) was larger with a team of seven men, which set out to map a little known area of Greenland's north coast.

The Third Thule Expedition ( 1919 ) was depot-laying for Roald Amundsen's polar drift in Maud.

The Fourth Thule Expedition ( 1919 – 1920 ) was in east Greenland where Rasmussen spent several months collecting ethnographic data near Angmagssalik.

Rasmussen's " greatest achievement " was the massive Fifth Thule Expedition ( 1921 – 1924 ) which was designed to " attack the great primary problem of the origin of the Eskimo race.

" A ten volume account ( The Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924 ( 1946 )) of ethnographic, archaeological and biological data was collected, and many artifacts are still on display in museums in Denmark.

In 1931, he went on the Sixth Thule Expedition, designed to consolidate Denmark's claim on a portion of eastern Greenland that was contested by Norway.

The Seventh Thule Expedition ( 1933 ) was meant to continue the work of the sixth, but Rasmussen contracted pneumonia after an episode of food poisoning, dying a few weeks later in Copenhagen at the age of 54.

Moreover, says Strabo, none of the other authors mention Thule, a fact which he uses to discredit Pytheas, but which to moderns indicates Pytheas was the first explorer to arrive there and tell of it.

Moreover Procopius says that the earlier name of Scandinavia was Thule and that it was the home of the Goths.

The fact that Pytheas lived centuries before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland by European agriculturalists makes them less likely candidates, as Thule was populated and its soil was tilled.

Pytheas also speaks of the waters around Thule and of those places where land properly speaking no longer exists, nor sea nor air, but a mixture of these things, like a " marine lung ", in which it is said that earth and water and all things are in suspension as if this something was a link between all these elements, on which one can neither walk nor sail.

Thule was perhaps actually discovered in the 4th century BC but was lost, and then later reidentified by ancient explorers and geographers as Shetland, Iceland, Scandinavia, or even as nonexistent.

Argentina maintained a naval station, Corbeta Uruguay on Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands, from 1976 until 1982 when it was closed by the Royal Navy.

The South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited, though a permanently manned Argentine research station was located on Thule Island from 1976 to 1982 ( for details, see " History " section above ).

Although originally Thule was probably the name for Scandinavia, Virgil simply uses it as a proverbial expression for the edge of the known world, and his mention should not be taken as a substantial reference to Scandinavia.

Rosenberg edited the Münchener Beobachter, a party newspaper, originally owned by the Thule Society.

According to Thule Society mythology, Thule was the capital of Hyperborea, a legendary country supposedly in the far North polar regions, originally mentioned by Herodotus from Egyptian sources.

On 5 January 1919 Anton Drexler, who had developed links between the Thule Society and various extreme right workers ' organizations in Munich, together with the Thule Society's Karl Harrer, established the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), or German Workers ' Party.

The German Socialist Party ( Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei, DSP ) was created in May 1919 as an initiative of Rudolf von Sebottendorf as a child of the Thule society, and its program was based on the ideas of the mechanical engineer Alfred Brunner ( 1881-1936 )-including socialist ideas like the takeover of the financial sector by the state and cutting back the " interest-based economy ".

During the Middle Ages the name was used first of all to denote Iceland, such as by Dicuil, by the Anglo-Saxon monk Venerable Bede in De ratione temporum, by the Landnámabók, by the anonymous Historia Norwegie and by the German cleric Adam of Bremen in his Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where they cite ancient writers ' use of Thule but also new knowledge since the end of antiquity.

In January 1919 the Thule Society was instrumental in the foundation of the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei ( German Workers ' Party, or DAP ) which later became the NSDAP ( Nazi Party ).

Thule Society activist Karl Harrer was one of the founders of the German Workers ' Party, which later became the Nazi Party ; some Nazi Party members like Alfred Rosenberg and Rudolf Heß were listed as " guests " of the Thule Society, as was Adolf Hitler's mentor Dietrich Eckart.

The Munich lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater when it was formally dedicated on August 18, 1918 was given the cover name, the Thule Society, which is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), which was later transformed by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nazi Party ).

He was an important figure in the activities of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization that influenced many members of the NSDAP.

Settling in Munich, he established the Thule Society, which became increasingly political, and in 1918 established a political party, the German Workers ' Party.

* Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ) — The German Workers ' Party was formed in 1919, by Anton Drexler with Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer, and derived in part from the Thule Society, the cover organization of the occult ariosophist Germanenorden.

From a historian's perspective, the importance of the Thule Society lies in its organising the discussion circle which led to the German Workers ' Party ( Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, or DAP ), founded in January 1919.

Eckart, the wealthy publisher of the newspaper Auf gut Deutsch ( In Plain German ), has been represented as a committed occultist and the most significant Thule influence on Hitler.

Several early members of the Nazi Party belonged to the Thule Society, a study group for German antiquity.