Eckart, Johann “Dietrich”, born on 23-03-1868 in Neumarkt, Bavaria,
was a Bavarian Roman Catholic poet and dramatist, brutally anti-Semitic. Eckart of rich descent, son of the notary and lawyer Christian Eckart and his wife Anna, a devout Catholic.. He lost his mother when he was a child, his father a few years later, and at the end of his teens, he ended up in a life like bohemian full of booze and drugs, which quickly put his father’s fortune through it hunted. After some false starts in art and a few radical political movements, and after a year of studying medicine, he became seriously addicted to morphine and had to be admitted to a psychiatric clinic for several months. He then became a playwright, but no piece ever came on the stage. According to Eckart himself the fault of the Jews, who in his opinion were in charge of the German theater. He is mentioned in Irvin D. Yalom’s The Riddle Spinoza
as editor-in-chief of a Munich newspaper in 1919. He blamed Jews and Marxists for his personal failure and later for Germany’s defeat in WW I. A Bohemian vagrant in Berlin, a morphine addict, he entered politics in 1918, where he became Hitler’s (did you know) (see Hitler parents)
(see William Hitler) first mentor and the “spiritual godfather” of national socialism.
He groomed Hitler for his messianic role. Between 1918 and 1920, Eckart edited the anti-Semitic periodical Auf gut Deutsch,
published along with the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews and Lebensraum, Alfred Rosenberg
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Death and burial ground of Eckart, Johann “Dietrich”.
Eckart died of a heart attack in Berchtesgaden on 26-12-1923, at the age of 55.
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