The Thule Society (/ ˈtuːlə /; German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, named after a mythical northern country in Greek legend.
The Thule Society may be separate from other groups, yet we will lend our support to those who deserve it. In summary, The Thule Society is a religious organization, so it is fundamentally a peaceful group of people who are primarily focused on education and personal growth.
In this blog, we explore the occult practices, beliefs, and influence of the Thule Society, shedding light on the dark intersection between mysticism and political extremism.
The Thule Society was founded by Rudolf von Sebottendorff, a German occultist, as the Munich branch of the Germanenorden, a secret society a.k.a. the "Order of Teutons" (1912).
Active primarily in Munich between 1918 and the mid-1920s, the Thule Society has been portrayed alternately as a cabal of occult sorcerers, a secret hand guiding Adolf Hitler, or a minor curiosity inflated by conspiracy theory. The truth is both less mystical and more dangerous.
According to Johannes Hering, "There is no evidence that Hitler ever attended the Thule Society."
As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the mystical German nationalists, concentrated in the so-called Thule Society, began to use the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan master race.
The dark magic of Nazi Germany - the history of the Thule Society
A Munich occult group with a political agenda, the Thule Society was led by Rudolf von Sebottendorff, a German commoner who had been adopted by nobility during a sojourn in the Ottoman Empire.