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The Hamburg School of Astrology originated in Hamburg, Germany, and revolved around the research and teachings of surveyor/astrologer
Astrologer

An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an undertaking's beginning, etc....
/amateur astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
 Alfred Witte
Alfred Witte

Alfred Witte was a German surveyor, astrologer, an amateur astronomer, and the founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. Witte revived and further developed the use of Midpoint for precision in astrological analysis and prediction....
. The term Hamburg School of Astrology originated in 1923 at the Second German Astrological Congress in Leipzig, Germany, where the astronomer/astrologer
Astrology and astronomy

Astrology and astronomy are historically one and the same discipline , and were only gradually recognized as separate in Western World 17th century philosophy ....
 Dr. Wilhelm Hartmann was a participant.

Early students of Alfred Witte were Friedrich Sieggrün and Ludwig Rudolph.






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The Hamburg School of Astrology originated in Hamburg, Germany, and revolved around the research and teachings of surveyor/astrologer
Astrologer

An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an undertaking's beginning, etc....
/amateur astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
 Alfred Witte
Alfred Witte

Alfred Witte was a German surveyor, astrologer, an amateur astronomer, and the founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. Witte revived and further developed the use of Midpoint for precision in astrological analysis and prediction....
. The term Hamburg School of Astrology originated in 1923 at the Second German Astrological Congress in Leipzig, Germany, where the astronomer/astrologer
Astrology and astronomy

Astrology and astronomy are historically one and the same discipline , and were only gradually recognized as separate in Western World 17th century philosophy ....
 Dr. Wilhelm Hartmann was a participant.

Early students of Alfred Witte were Friedrich Sieggrün and Ludwig Rudolph. In his search for Pluto, Witte claimed four planets beyond Pluto, and Sieggrün claimed yet another four. These bodies are in the Transneptunian
Trans-Neptunian object

A trans-Neptunian object is any object in the solar system that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune . The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space....
 regions, where many planetary discoveries are being validated today. Ludwig Rudolph printed and published Witte's findings, the core of which were published in the Rulebook for Planetary Pictures (Regelwerk für Planetenbilder) in 1932. An increasing amount of the research
Research

Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovery , interpretation , and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe....
 of the Hamburg School revolved around work with astrological midpoints and use of the extra planets
Trans-Neptunian object

A trans-Neptunian object is any object in the solar system that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune . The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space....
.

Unfortunately, Witte and Rudolph were pursued by the Gestapo
Gestapo

The was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the Schutzstaffel , it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei ....
 as enemies of the Third Reich. Alfred Witte committed suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
 before being sent to a concentration camp, and Ludwig Rudolph was indeed interned, the Rulebook for Planetary Pictures banned and burned by the Nazis
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
.

Reinhold Ebertin
Reinhold Ebertin

Dr. Reinhold Ebertin was a Germany physician and astrologer....
, a (unofficial) student of Hamburg School methods, eliminated the use of the hypothetical trans-neptunian objects while maintaining the core teachings of the Hamburg School, renamed them "Cosmobiology
Cosmobiology

Historically, the term 'Kosmobiologie' was used by the Germans medical astrologer Dr Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense "to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to the natural sciences"....
" , and published them in The Combination of Stellar Influences
The Combination of Stellar Influences

The Combination of Stellar Influences is an Astrology reference and research text first published in 1940 by the Germany astrologer Reinhold Ebertin, derived largely from material in the Rulebook for Planetary Pictures by Alfred Witte which was published in 1932 but was banned by the Third Reich....
 in 1940, last updated in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 in 1972.

After the fall of the Third Reich
Battle of Berlin

The Battle of Berlin was the final Strategic offensive of the European Theatre of World War II of World War II and was designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union.The last offensive of the European war was the Prague Offensive on 6?11 May 1945, when the Red Army, with the help of Poland, Romanian, and...
, the Hamburg School reconvened, and Ludwig Rudolph, having survived concentration-camp internment, played the key role in perpetuating the teachings of the Hamburg School. The Hamburg School astrologer Hermann Lefeldt combined Witte's theories with more astrological traditions such as the use of astrological houses
House (astrology)

Most Horoscopic astrology systems divide the horoscope into a number of houses whose positions depend on time and location rather than on date....
. However, other Hamburg practitioners maintained their focus on working only with astrological midpoints , abandoning traditional practices
Western astrology

Western astrology is the system of astrology most popular in Western countries. Western astrology originated in Babylonian astrology during the 2nd millennium BC, from where it spread to much of the world....
, including the 12 houses and rulerships; and among these astrologers is former Hamburg School Vice-President Ruth Brummund
Ruth Brummund

Ruth Brummund is a Germany astrologer involved in astrological research. Prior to that she was a chemist....
, who went on to form the new School of Uranische Astrology (Uranian astrology
Uranian astrology

Uranian astrology is a relatively recent methodological approach to astrology based on teachings of Germany Surveyor /astrologer Alfred Witte , founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology....
) in Germany.

See also

  • Astrological aspects
  • Astrology
    Astrology

    Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs which hold that the relative positions of astronomical object and related details can provide useful information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters....
  • Cosmobiology
    Cosmobiology

    Historically, the term 'Kosmobiologie' was used by the Germans medical astrologer Dr Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense "to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to the natural sciences"....
  • Natal chart
    Natal chart

    In natal astrology, a natal chart is a horoscope/astrological chart drawn for the exact time of an Birthday at a particular place on Earth for the purposes of gaining information about the individual....
  • Uranian astrology
    Uranian astrology

    Uranian astrology is a relatively recent methodological approach to astrology based on teachings of Germany Surveyor /astrologer Alfred Witte , founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology....