Randolph Muller

Randolph Muller (20 April 1889 – 23 September 1962), also known as Hitler’s Good Twin, was a German philosopher, painter, mystic, religious leader, and linguist. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, having developed a Pan-Germanic cultural and political movement called Mullerism, which involved the foundation of the Germanic League, the creation of an auxiliary Germanic language called Teedish, and the spread of the Vanatru, a new religious movement, throughout Europe. Muller helped create the concept of a Germanic world, still widely influential on the politics and culture of central and northern European nations to this day.

Mullet’s main intellectual influences were aspects of the philosophies of Kant, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Steiner, and Nietzsche, particularly the criticism of traditional religions and racial relations, whereas certain other aspects were rejected. As a mystic, Muller acquired his knowledge and inspiration from English occultists Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner. He was also strongly influenced by the 19th-century Völkisch movement.

Biography
Muller was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I. In his twenties, Muller gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-communism, and the restoration of Germanic neopaganism, also known as Vanatru. With charismatic oratory, he frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as part of a Zionist conspiracy and supported the creation of a greater social democratic state uniting all Germanic peoples of Europe. Muller believed these countries were a single nation that was fragmented and weak, and endorsed a modern restoration of it under one powerful state with its own language and religion.

An accomplished academician, Muller rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s, after fleeing Germany during World War II to Jonas, where he founded the Germanic League. After Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Muller lost faith in military and political ambitions and began focusing his efforts on a cultural integration of Germanic countries. He created Teedish, a constructed language based on common Germanic lexicon intended to be easy to learn. He believed that Teedish would eventually replace English as an international auxiliary language. Muller opposed Esperanto because its grammar and vocabulary relied very little on Germanic roots, being mostly based on Romance and Slavic languages, and because it was created by L.L. Zamenhof, a Pole.

Muller criticized and opposed the world's widely-practiced monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, and their influence on Europe. He had a strong interest in occultism and Germanic mythology. In the late 1940s, he developed a friendship with Gerald Gardner and Aleister Crowley, the respective founders of Wicca and Thelema, and became fascinated with the magic and practices of their cults. In 1948, he founded a henotheistic religious movement called Vanatru, which revered gods of the Germanic pantheon, with Odin above all them, and practiced several rituals of magic. Vanatru gained adherents in Germany, Austria, and Denmark, but also suffered public criticism, especially from Christian groups.