Gerhard Nebel

Nebel studied philosophy and classical philology in Freiburg, Marburg and Heidelberg from 1923 to 1927, under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers.

Nebel was drafted into the Luftwaffe and worked as a translator in Paris in 1941, where he met Ernst Jünger.

After comparing fighter airplanes with insects in an essay, he was demoted and transferred as a construction soldier to Alderney.

He published his diaries, and the essay collections Von den Elementen and Tyrannis und Freiheit.

Nebel switched his ideological alignment several times during his life; he identified as a Social Democrat, a Marxist, a Nihilist, an Atheist, a Reactionary and after World War 2 he developed his own idiosyncratic form of conservativism.