Philipp Stauff

Philipp Stauff (1876-1923) was a prominent German/Austrian journalist and publisher in Berlin. He was an enthusiastic Armanist, a close friend of Guido von List, and a founding member of the Guido-von-List-Society. He was also the obituarist for List in the "Münchener Beobachter". ["Guido von List gestorben", "Münchener Beobachter", 24 May 1919, p.4.]

Stauff joined the List Society in 1910 and swiftly graduated to the High Armanen Order, the intimate inner circle around List. In 1912 he became a committee member of the List Society and a generous patron. He was the chief German representative of the High Armanen Order at Berlin. ["Allgemeine Ordens-Nachrichten", 13 March 1918, 3-4.]

His esoteric treatise "Runenhäuser" ("Rune Houses"), published in 1912, "extended the Listian thesis of 'armanist' relics with the claim that the ancient runic wisdom had been enshrined in the geometric configuration of beams in half-timbered houses throughout Germany". [Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, 1985: 132.] (See also Runic significance of timber framing.)

He was active in both the Reichshammerbund and the Germanenorden (pre-World War I "völkisch" leagues). He was one of the principal officers in the loyalist Berlin province of the original Germanenorden after a splinter group led by Hermann Pohl broke away in 1916. [Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 131.]

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