Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner

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Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner

Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner (23 February 1939 - 12 April 2011) was an Austrian-German Catholic traditionalist philosopher, part of the Neue Rechte/European New Right. He is influential among German conservatives and traditionalists, particularly well-known for his extensive corpus of works dealing with conservative, traditionalist, and religious theories and portraits of numerous thinkers involved in these philosophies.

Kaltenbrunner studied philosophy, law and political science at the University of Vienna. In 1962, he moved to Germany, where he worked, among other things, as a publishing editor and freelance writer. His early works were on political issues, his later works on religious and mystical issues. His last book was published in 1996. In the following years, he lived in seclusion.

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