NEXT PAGE TIMEBASE CATALOG SEARCH PEOPLE WORDS MAPS REFS HOME	TIMEBASE 1925 (Note: Use your browser's "Find" or "Search" icon to locate specific information on almost any subject, person, place, date or thing you wish to investigate. Click on any highlighted date to view video.) 1925 Benito Mussolini eliminates his most important political opponents and establishes a virtual dictatorship by force and intimidation. He soon begins the process of converting Italy into a one-party Corporate state. 1925 January Stalin begins a plan to gradually ease Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, both of Jewish descent, out of power and gain complete control of the Soviet Union (USSR) for himself. 1925 January 2 Rudolf Hess and several other Nazis are released from Landsberg prison and quickly rejoin Hitler. (Missing Years) 1925 February 27 Hitler revives the NSDAP and quickly takes control. 1925 March 26 Count Hochberg gives 500 gold marks to the Order of the New Templars (ONT) for the purchase of the small ancient earthwork of Wickeloh near Gross-Oesingen in Lower Saxony. (Roots) 1925 Hitler decides he needs a bodyguard of loyal party members to protect him from his opponents at public meetings and rallies. He appoints Julius Schreck, an old comrade and his chauffeur, to form the new unit. Schreck takes his new position very seriously and soon establishes strict guidelines for Hitler's "Protection Squad," which soon becomes known as the SS (Schutzstaffel). (Secrets) 1925 March 30 Rudolf Steiner dies. The Anthroposophy movement, which has been called a Christianized version of Theosophy, continues to flourish even after his death. 1925 Ernst Roehm, after coming into conflict with Hitler over the role of the SA, travels to Bolivia, where he will remain until 1930. 1925 April Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg becomes President of Germany. 1925 May 5 Dr. Karl Haushofer founds the Deutsche Akademie. Rudof Hess becomes an assistant on his staff and a close friend of Haushofer's son, Albrecht. Hess later abandons the idea of obtaining a doctorate. (Missing Years) 1925 Summer Johann Walthari Wölfl, the ONT Prior of Wefenstein, begins issuing the Librarium and the Examinatorium. The first contains short stories of the alleged medieval antecedents of the order, Burg Werfenstein and Lebensreform. The second features a question-and-answer synopsis of all order matters, enabling new brothers to quickly and comprehensively learn the order's history, traditions and ceremonial. (Roots) 1925 Summer Construction begins on a new ONT priory at Gross-Oesingen in Lower Saxony. (Roots) 1925 July 18 The first volume of Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler's personal political testament, is published in Munich. The book is dedicated to Dietrich Eckart and the sixteen Nazi "martyrs" who died in Munich on November 9, 1918. 1925 September 3 Edward R. Stettinius, Sr., dies. His son, Edward, Jr., is General Motors' manager of employment. 1925 September 5 The "Völkischer Beobachter" hails Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Foundations of the Nineteenth Century as "The Gospel of the National Socialist Movement." 1925 October A secular group around the occult-racist publisher Herbert Reichstein begins promoting the doctrine of Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels in Germany. (Roots) 1925 October The Treaty of Locarno is signed in Switzerland by Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. It guarantees the demilitarized status of the Rhineland and the common borders of Belgium, France, and Germany, all as specified by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia also sign border agreements. The "spirit of Locarno" is widely hailed as ushering in an era of international peace and good will. 1925 November 29 Rudolf Gorsleben founds the Edda Society, an "Aryan" study group, at Dinkelsbühl, in Franconia. Grand Master of the group is Werner von Bülow. Treasurer is Friedrich Schaefer from Mühlhausen, whose wife, Käthe, keeps open house for other occult-völkisch groups which gather around Karl Maria Wiligut (Weisthor) in the early 1930s. Rudolf Gorsleben was Chancellor of the Edda Society and published its periodical German Freedom, later Aryan Freedom. (Roots) (Note: Mathilde von Kemnitz, a prolific völkisch writer, who will marry General Ludendorff in 1926, is an active member of the Edda Society.) (Mund;Roots) 1925 December 1 The Locarno Treaties are signed. These agreements are an attempt to settle security problems left unresolved at the end of World War I. The main treaty, which confirms Germany's western borders with France and Belgium, is signed by the powers directly concerned and is guaranteed by Britain and Italy. Germany signs treaties with its eastern neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia, but they are not given the same protection. France, however, concludes an agreement with the latter countries promising to help them if Germany breaks its commitment to settle any future disputes with them peacefully. The Locarno Pact makes Germany's entry into the League of Nations possible. 1925 Sebottendorff returns to Turkey. From 1926 to 1928, he acts as honorary Mexican consul in Instanbul (Constantinople). He later travels to the U.S. and Central America, 1929-1931. (Roots) 1925 Charles G. Dawes wins the Nobel peace prize for arranging the Dawes Plan for German war reparations. 1925 The Geneva Protocol of 1925, bans poison gas as a means of warfare. 1925 Stalin forces Trotsky to resign as Minister of War. 1925 Jewish synagogues and schools are looted and the Jewish cemetery is desecrated at Piatra in Romania. (Atlas) 1925 Ossendovski, a Russian writer, publishes "Men, Beasts and Gods." The names Schamballah and Agarthi appear in public for first time. 1925 Monsignor Ludwig Kaas is appointed as advisor to Eugenio Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio in Berlin, by Cardinal Bertram. Kaas and Pacelli soon become close friends. (Arthur Wynen; Lewy) 1925 Jean Monnet becomes a partner in the Blair Foreign Corporation, a New York bank that made huge profits during the war. 1925 Joseph Goebbels is appointed Business Manager of the North Rhineland Gau of the Nazi Party. He soon edits several Nazi publications, including the bulletin NS-Briefe (National Socialist Letters). 1925 Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog. 1925 Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as Shah of Iran. Copyright © 1997 R.H. Perez de Cruet All Rights reserved. NEXT TIMEBASE Home Page

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1925 Benito Mussolini eliminates his most important political opponents and establishes a virtual dictatorship by force and intimidation. He soon begins the process of converting Italy into a one-party Corporate state.

1925 January Stalin begins a plan to gradually ease Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, both of Jewish descent, out of power and gain complete control of the Soviet Union (USSR) for himself.

1925 January 2 Rudolf Hess and several other Nazis are released from Landsberg prison and quickly rejoin Hitler. (Missing Years)

1925 February 27 Hitler revives the NSDAP and quickly takes control.

1925 March 26 Count Hochberg gives 500 gold marks to the Order of the New Templars (ONT) for the purchase of the small ancient earthwork of Wickeloh near Gross-Oesingen in Lower Saxony. (Roots)

1925 Hitler decides he needs a bodyguard of loyal party members to protect him from his opponents at public meetings and rallies. He appoints Julius Schreck, an old comrade and his chauffeur, to form the new unit. Schreck takes his new position very seriously and soon establishes strict guidelines for Hitler's "Protection Squad," which soon becomes known as the SS (Schutzstaffel). (Secrets)

1925 March 30 Rudolf Steiner dies. The Anthroposophy movement, which has been called a Christianized version of Theosophy, continues to flourish even after his death.

1925 Ernst Roehm, after coming into conflict with Hitler over the role of the SA, travels to Bolivia, where he will remain until 1930.

1925 April Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg becomes President of Germany.

1925 May 5 Dr. Karl Haushofer founds the Deutsche Akademie. Rudof Hess becomes an assistant on his staff and a close friend of Haushofer's son, Albrecht. Hess later abandons the idea of obtaining a doctorate. (Missing Years)

1925 Summer Johann Walthari Wölfl, the ONT Prior of Wefenstein, begins issuing the Librarium and the Examinatorium. The first contains short stories of the alleged medieval antecedents of the order, Burg Werfenstein and Lebensreform. The second features a question-and-answer synopsis of all order matters, enabling new brothers to quickly and comprehensively learn the order's history, traditions and ceremonial. (Roots)

1925 Summer Construction begins on a new ONT priory at Gross-Oesingen in Lower Saxony. (Roots)

1925 July 18 The first volume of Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler's personal political testament, is published in Munich. The book is dedicated to Dietrich Eckart and the sixteen Nazi "martyrs" who died in Munich on November 9, 1918.

1925 September 3 Edward R. Stettinius, Sr., dies. His son, Edward, Jr., is General Motors' manager of employment.

1925 September 5 The "Völkischer Beobachter" hails Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Foundations of the Nineteenth Century as "The Gospel of the National Socialist Movement."

1925 October A secular group around the occult-racist publisher Herbert Reichstein begins promoting the doctrine of Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels in Germany. (Roots)

1925 October The Treaty of Locarno is signed in Switzerland by Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. It guarantees the demilitarized status of the Rhineland and the common borders of Belgium, France, and Germany, all as specified by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia also sign border agreements. The "spirit of Locarno" is widely hailed as ushering in an era of international peace and good will.

1925 November 29 Rudolf Gorsleben founds the Edda Society, an "Aryan" study group, at Dinkelsbühl, in Franconia. Grand Master of the group is Werner von Bülow. Treasurer is Friedrich Schaefer from Mühlhausen, whose wife, Käthe, keeps open house for other occult-völkisch groups which gather around Karl Maria Wiligut (Weisthor) in the early 1930s. Rudolf Gorsleben was Chancellor of the Edda Society and published its periodical German Freedom, later Aryan Freedom. (Roots)

(Note: Mathilde von Kemnitz, a prolific völkisch writer, who will marry General Ludendorff in 1926, is an active member of the Edda Society.) (Mund;Roots)

1925 December 1 The Locarno Treaties are signed. These agreements are an attempt to settle security problems left unresolved at the end of World War I. The main treaty, which confirms Germany's western borders with France and Belgium, is signed by the powers directly concerned and is guaranteed by Britain and Italy. Germany signs treaties with its eastern neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia, but they are not given the same protection. France, however, concludes an agreement with the latter countries promising to help them if Germany breaks its commitment to settle any future disputes with them peacefully. The Locarno Pact makes Germany's entry into the League of Nations possible.

1925 Sebottendorff returns to Turkey. From 1926 to 1928, he acts as honorary Mexican consul in Instanbul (Constantinople). He later travels to the U.S. and Central America, 1929-1931. (Roots)

1925 Charles G. Dawes wins the Nobel peace prize for arranging the Dawes Plan for German war reparations.

1925 The Geneva Protocol of 1925, bans poison gas as a means of warfare.

1925 Stalin forces Trotsky to resign as Minister of War.

1925 Jewish synagogues and schools are looted and the Jewish cemetery is desecrated at Piatra in Romania. (Atlas)

1925 Ossendovski, a Russian writer, publishes "Men, Beasts and Gods." The names Schamballah and Agarthi appear in public for first time.

1925 Monsignor Ludwig Kaas is appointed as advisor to Eugenio Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio in Berlin, by Cardinal Bertram. Kaas and Pacelli soon become close friends. (Arthur Wynen; Lewy)

1925 Jean Monnet becomes a partner in the Blair Foreign Corporation, a New York bank that made huge profits during the war.

1925 Joseph Goebbels is appointed Business Manager of the North Rhineland Gau of the Nazi Party. He soon edits several Nazi publications, including the bulletin NS-Briefe (National Socialist Letters).

1925 Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.

1925 Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as Shah of Iran.

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