ERICH Hanussen JAN (b. Vienna, 1889 - d. Berlin, 1933) The ascent to power of Nazism in Germany is a time full of characters ranging from simply bizarre to claim; livers of many coats, specialists in fishing in troubled waters it was the Weimar Republic in its last throes. Amongst them Hanussen Erich, "The Wizard of green gloves", which would reach called "the Rasputin Germanic", a character in a short time went from nothing to bright star and then mysteriously shut down and that little is known with certainty.
seems certain that he was born in Vienna, some say that in a police cell in the 80-nineteenth century. Jewish family, his real name was Hermann Steinchneider. Some sources say that a descendant of a famous rabbi of the eighteenth century, but what seems certain is that his family belonged to the world of circus and variety, and very young was a hustler who himself acted as a tumbler in a fair people who played musical composer or editor of magazines of dubious content. During the First World War served to entertain the troops. After the war it seems that he served as a seer to families searching for their loved ones in the battlefield until he settled in Prague as a seer. Soon his cabinet clairvoyance became a meeting place for all kinds of Kabbalistic and esoteric circles that helped to create an aura of mystery around him getting many customers among the affluent. In addition he also began to use the inside information that succeeded in their offices to extort money from their customers, so eventually he was forced to move out apparently wanted by the law.
mid-twenties was in Berlin, had changed its name to Erich Jan Hanussen and presented as a Danish aristocrat. Initially editor esoteric magazine a couple who opened the doors of the "occult circles" of the German capital and lets you know people like the writer Hans EINZ Ewers, but also brought him into contact with several of the early Nazi party members . In the late twenties Hanussen divided his time between cabaret and theater performances in Berlin, where he demonstrated his skill as a magician and fortune teller (probably using techniques such as cold reading ) while acquiring potential customers, and private sessions where she received the most influential people of the moment. It appears that his office was using all sorts of tricks and special effects besides being full of microphones he later served to leave without speaking to their unsuspecting clients to "hit" in multitrack details of their lives. It seems that the cabinet was known to be a place where other meetings occurred less worthy with orgies of all kinds and secret magical rites. Rumors that did nothing but increase the fame and fortune Hanussen.
Sometime in the early thirties was the same Hitler who had apparently heard of a alleged Hanussen prediction about his rise to power. The relationship established between them is then one of the most controversial points of psychic life. Some say that Hanussen "trained" to the future Führer thanks to his knowledge of animal magnetism to make the great mass hypnotist that was later. Others say that since their first meeting Hitler did nothing without consulting a soothsayer. Anyway, the point is that thanks to this fortunate visit Hanussen became the seer of fashion among the rising Nazis which, thanks to the methods of accumulating information and extortion that we have seen before, he earned a fortune, in addition to considerable power within the Nazi circles. However, as happened already in Prague, it seems clear that abuse of this was what led to his downfall final. His growing influence made it investigated by the Nazi police, and came out of their Jewish origin, among other things, but for now your contacts to avoid further problems. On February 24, 1933 Hanussen inaugurated with great pomp its new location, "Palace of Occultism" in the presence of a large number of Nazi leaders. At one point, the seer fell into a trance and predicted to all present the Reichstag fire , which would occur two days later. How we came to know that the Nazi secret operation to take forever with the power and wipe out the Communists is a mystery, although his background is not difficult to explain. Why not dare to disclose that is an even greater mystery. Some say he could not resist using that information in your show because it was primarily an artist, and personally I am inclined to believe that it was rather an attempt to do what he did best, namely to cash in on it. Anyway, it was a dangerous move, and ended up coming out wrong. His performance made everyone suspect that in reality were the Nazis who burned the Reichstag and despite his alleged friendship with Hitler was soon to fall from grace. The Palace of the Occult was closed, and its meetings and consultations were banned. On March 24, was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo, the April 8 Beobatcher the Volkischer announced that it had found a corpse half-eaten by animals in a forest near Berlin. Shortly after one of his assistants identified Hanussen. The case was closed as a suicide even though the newspaper said the body was sewn with bullets.
A commonly ascribed Hanussen have predicted the rise to power of Hitler, the night of long knives and the Reichstag fire . However it seems that many other predictions were not so lucky, especially with that of his own destiny but some say that in reality the Nazis out of the way but not killed, but continued using their powers, putting a final touch of mystery to the life of the seer.
