Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing

Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (23 June 1927 – 25 January 2009) was a German writer, scholar and publisher. He was a leading thinker of the post-war political right in Germany. He is associated with the German New Right. Life Schrenck-Notzing was born in 1927 in the Bavarian capital Munich. He was a descendant of one of the oldest patrician and noble families of the city. Among his ancestors were the physical researcher and spiritist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, his grandfather, and the female aviation pioneer Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing, his grandmother. He later in life inherited from his father a considerable fortune and became a major shareholder in the companies WMF Group (tableware manufacturer) and BASF, the chemical manufacturer. After his “Abitur” exam at the high school (“Gymnasium”), Schrenck-Notzing studied history and sociology in Munich, Freiburg and Cologne in the years after the war. While a student he began to publish articles in conservative and right-wing newspapers. His first major book publication was a history of India “Hundert Jahre Indien” (One hundred years of India) in 1961.