Stefan George

Stefan George (July 12, 1868 - December 4, 1933) was a German poet whose volkisch poetry gained popularity in right wing and Nazi circles who had a group of writers who congregated around him known as the Georgekreis (George circle). Stefan George left Germany and immigrated to Switzerland since the regime had started to realize how much popularity it could gain by claiming George as a Nazi poet. Out of the Georgekreis arose Hugo von Hofmannsthal, one of Austria's most important literary modernists, and also Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944.