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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

Haushofer wrote to Hamilton in order to make contact but never received a reply.

From BBC • May 9, 2021

As the Versailles peace conference of 1919 stripped Germany of its colonial empire and placed its Rhineland frontier under foreign occupation, Karl Haushofer exchanged his general’s baton for a geography professorship at Munich University.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2018

Although Haushofer said he does not find motivation in looking at his own long list of failures, Stefan views hers as a way of tracking how much she has tried.

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