Wilfried Daim

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Wilfried Daim (21 July 1923 in Vienna – 30 December 2016 in Vienna) was an Austrian psychologist, psychotherapist, writer and art collector.[1][2]

Between 1940 and 1945 Daim was active in the Catholic resistance in Austria.[1] He founded the private Institute for Political Psychology in Vienna in 1956.[1]

Daim published many books on the topic of psychology and faith,[3][4] but he is most noted for his book Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab (transl. The Man Who Gave Hitler the Ideas) which established the connection between Lanz von Liebenfels and Adolf Hitler. This book was first published in 1957, and received many editions and two revisions in German, but has never been translated into English. Karis Muller called it the "seminal" work on Hitler's ties to the occult.[5][2][1]

References

  1. 1.[1.2][1.3][1.4]"Daim, Wilfried". Austria-Forum (in German).
  2. 2.[2.2]"Rebellischer Christ, exzentrischer Einzelgänger". Die Presse (in German). 24 June 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  3. 3.Bociurkiw, Bohdan R. (March 1972). "The Vatican and Eastern Europe. By Wilfried Daim. Translated by Alexander Gode. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1970. vii, 189 pp. $7.00". Slavic Review. 31 (1): 209–210. doi:10.2307/2494205. ISSN 0037-6779.
  4. 4.Hitchcock, James (1 November 1974). "Religion and Revolution, by Guenter Lewy; Christianity, Judaism, and Revolution, by Wilfried Daim". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  5. 5.Muller, Karis (1 April 2004). "Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity". The European Legacy. 9 (2): 260–261. doi:10.1080/10848770410001687657. ISSN 1084-8770.