Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (April 23, 1876 - May 30, 1925) was a German cultural historian and writer. In 1876 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (also Moeller-Bruck) was born in Solingen, the son of Ottomar Moeller, a government building official, and Elisabeth van den Bruck, the daughter of a building official. From 1898-1910 he studied at gymnasium, and afterwards continued his studies on his own in Berlin, Paris, and Italy. His eight-volume cultural history, "The Germans, Our People's History" appeared in 1905. In 1907 he came back to Germany and in 1914 enlisted in the army at the beginning of World War I. Soon thereafter he joined the press office of the Foreign Ministry and became an employee of the foreign department of the OHL. In 1916 his essay "The Prussian Style" appeared, in which celebrated the Prussian essence as "the will to the state"; this marked his embrace of nationalism. It showed him as an opponent of parliamentarianism and liberalism, and it exerted a strong influence on the young conservative movement. On May 30, 1925, after a nervous breakdown, Moeller committed suicide in Berlin.
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