Karl Haushofer

The Life and Times of Karl Haushofer

Karl Haushofer was born in Munich, Germany on August 27, 1869. He belonged to a family of artists and scholars, and for a while considered living a life of academia himself, but instead worked as an instructor for the Bavarian Army, and fought in World War I. He retired from the Bavarian army in 1919 at the age of 50 with the rank of major general.

He had visited Japan in 1908 on a military mission, and had done other traveling in Asia as well. Thus in 1911, Haushofer received a PhD from Mucich University for a thesis on Japan.

Upon his retirement from the army, Haushofer became a geopolitician, j

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