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Haushofer

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[hous-hoh-fer] / ˈhaʊs hoʊ fər /

noun

  1. Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.


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One of the leading German geographers of the era, Karl Haushofer, was a father figure to Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

He went back to Haushofer who told him there were still people who wanted peace.

From BBC • May 9, 2021

A few months later, Karl Haushofer and his Jewish wife committed suicide together when confronted with the possibility that the victorious allies might prosecute him as a senior Nazi war criminal.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2018

Haushofer was inspired by a 2010 essay in Nature by Melanie Stefan, lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland in the biomedical sciences.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2017

“This is a landmark study,” says Johannes Haushofer, a psychologist at Princeton University.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2014