Albert Herrmann

Besides his fundamental research in the field of Chinese Geography, his most famous work is Historical and commercial Atlas of China (1935), which was in use worldwide.

He died on 19 April 1945, due to wounds received during an air bombardment of the railway station in Plzeň.

Due to his position within the Nazi Party, his theories carried considerable weight in the German press.

Believing he had found evidence for the site of Atlantis in the village of Rhelissia, he theorised that Plato's descriptions of the lost city had been incorrect, and argued that it had in fact existed as recently as the 14th century BCE.

[3] Herrmann went on to extrapolate that Atlantis was in fact a colony of Frisland, and that civilisation was therefore Frisian in origin.