Philipp Stauff
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Philipp Stuaff was a German/Austrian prominent Berlin journalist, Armanist, close friend of Guido von List and was a founding member of the Guido-von-List-Society. He was also the obiturist for List in the Münchener Beobachter ('Guido von List gestorben' on May 24, 1919, p. 4.)
He was active both the Reichshammerbund and Germanenorden pre-war völkisch leagues. He was a principal officer in the loyalist Berlin provinve of the original order of the Germanenorden. (The Occult Roots of Nazism)
He was the chief German representative of the High Armanen Order (Allgemeine Ordens-Nachrichten 13 March 1918, 3-4) at Berlin. In 1912 he became a committee member and a generous patron.
His esoteric treatise Runenhaüser (Rune houses [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. (Roots of Nazism). Also see Timber Framing Runic Significance