Paul Langhans

Paul Max Harry Langhans (Hamburg, 1 April 1867 - Gotha 17 January 1952) was a German geographer and cartographer.

In 1902 he founded the magazine Deutsche Erde, which agitated for the 'Alldeutscher Verband'[1] (1891–1939) and statements of the 'Volks- und Kulturbodenforschung' which supported ethnocentristic and geopolitical issues and aspects of national politics in German Reich, especially in the interwar period.

In his capacity as a member of the anti-Semitic 'Deutschsoziale Reformpartei' (German Social Reform Party), Langhans edited the Antisemitischen Monatsblatts from 1896 to 1907.

From 1909 to 1942, he was Federal Director of the Deutschbund, whose members regarded themselves as the 'racial elite', which strove for a deepening of being German.

In its honorary citizenship letter, the city especially praised him "for his always self-sacrificing commitment to building the NSDAP, for his decades-long work as an advocate for national awakening",[2] and only afterwards "for his outstanding work of world renown as a geographic scientist of the German kind".