Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
An undated portrait of van den Bruck
Born	(1876-04-23)23 April 1876 Solingen, Westphalia, German Empire
Died	30 May 1925(1925-05-30) (aged 49) Berlin, Weimar Germany
Cause of death	Suicide
Spouse	Hedda Eulenberg (m. 1897; div. 1904)

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was a German historian. In 1905 he published a cultural history of Germany in eight volumes. During World War I he was in a foreign affairs section of the German Army. in 1923 he published a book called Das Dritte Reich which influenced various right-wing politicians in Germany, including Adolph Hitler. He thought Hitler could not become important and the political hope of the future was Benito Mussolini. Van den Bruck committed suicide in 1925.