Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch (December 1, 1883 – unknown) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

. He was a German-Russian author in the völkisch movement

Völkisch movement

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 and became SS-Standartenführer in 1944. His death is unclear.

Life

Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch was a radical author with German-Russian ancestry. An active agitator against the Bolshevik Revolution, he fled his native Russia in 1920 and travelled widely in eastern Europe, making contact with Bulgarian Theosophists and probably with G.I. Gurdjieff. As a mystical anti-communist, he developed an unshakeable belief in the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik world conspiracy portrayed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In 1922 he published his first book, Freemasonry

Freemasonry

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 and the Russian Revolution, and emigrated to Germany in the same year. He became an enthusiastic convert to Anthroposophy

Anthroposophy

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 in 1923, but by 1929 he had repudiated it as yet another agent of the conspiracy. Meanwhile, he had begun to give lectures for the Ariosophical Society and was a contributor to Georg Lomer's originally Theosophical (and later, neopagan) periodical entitled Asgard

Asgard

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: a fighting sheet for the gods of the homeland. He also worked for Alfred Rosenberg's news agency during the 1920s before joining the SS. He lectured widely on conspiracy theories and was appointed an honorary SS professor in 1942, but was barred from lecturing in uniform because of his unorthodox views. In 1944 he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer on Himmler's recommendation.

Works

• Ein Meer von Blut (Sea of Blood). Munich 1926.
• Die Freimaurerei (Freemasonry). Weimar 1928.
• Die Bolschewisierung der Welt (Bolshevisation of the World). Munich 1929.
• Doktor Steiner, ein Schwindler wie keiner ein Kapitel über Anthropologie und die geistige Verwirrungsarbeit der Falschen Propheten (Dr Steiner, a Conman: A chapter about anthropology and the mental disorientation of the false prophet). Munich 1930.
• Jüdischer Imperialismus – 3000 Jahre hebräischer Schleichwege zur Erlangung der Weltherrschaft (Jewish Imperialism – 3000 years of Hebrew secret path to world supremacy). Landsberg am Lech 1935.
• Jude und Weib Theorie und die Praxis des jüdischen Vampyrismus, der Ausbeutung und Verseuchung der Wirtsvölker (Jew and Wife, Theoretical and practical few on Jewish vampyrism, the exploitation and contamination of the host nation). Berlin 1939.