Carlos Keller

Carlos Keller Rueff ( born January 3, 1897 in Concepción, † February 28, 1974 in San Felipe ) was a journalist, writer and chief ideologue of the National Socialist Movement of Chile.

Life

Carlos Keller Rueff was born as the son of German-born parents, Carlos Keller Rueff Hollausch and his wife Ema hen, in Concepción. The family moved in 1912 to Leipzig in Germany, where Keller studied after graduating from school, Law, Economics and Social Sciences in Berlin, Bonn and Würzburg, and in 1921 the doctor juris et rerum politicarum took off. During his studies he also made ​​the acquaintance of Oswald Spengler, who exerted a formative influence on him.

1921 Keller returned back to Chile and taught at the Universidad de Concepción sociology and economics. In 1927 he became a professor at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, a year later he was appointed director of the Philosophy and Social Sciences. Basement work in the Statistical Office, of which he was in 1932.

In 1933 he had to resign this office, as he had in 1932 the National Socialist Movement of Chile connected. He was an employee of the daily newspapers La Hora and La Nación from 1934 to 1938 and publisher and editor of Acción Chilena. In 1938 he took part in a coup attempt by the Chilean Nazis. In 1942 he was commissioned to statistical surveys again, the Office after the unexpected death of President Juan Antonio Ríos Morales but had to give up. After done only publications on geographical and historical themes.

Carlos Keller Rueff died on 28 February 1974 at the age of 77 years to hardening of the arteries in San Felipe.

Works (selection)

• The development of the Chilean mining industry, Diss Würzburg 1921
• Spengler y la Politica SITUACION Cultural de la America Iberica, 1927
• La eterna crisis chilena, 1931
• El departamento de Arica, 1946
• Dios de Tierra del Fuego. Mitos y cuentos de los sélenam ..., 1947