Heinrich / Henry Birven
P.R. Koenig
From 1927 on, Birven published in his magazine "Hain der Isis" works by
Gustav Meyrink, Franz Spunda, Joanny Bricaud,
E.C.H. Peithmann,
Will-Erich Peuckert and Aleister Crowley. Due to Birven's strong links
within the educated and cultural circles, Karl Germer nourished
antipathy towards him when Birven "would not speak to me if it were
not for the fact that you [Crowley] know me", he complained.
It was in Birven's home in Berlin where Krumm-Heller, Germer, Gerald
Yorke and Crowley met in 1930. Eventually, Birven who already called Theodor Reuss' O.T.O. a "Tutti-Frutti" started to quarrell with Crowley,
especially when Birven received a 33° (Cerneau) Charter from Joanny
Bricaud. From 1932 on, Birven had a small Memphis Misraim-circle in Berlin and
started writing hateful pamphlets against Crowley, Heinrich Traenker and Arnoldo
Krumm-Heller.
At the beginning of the Nazi regime Birven was allegedly seized by the
Gestapo and he blamed it all on Karl Germer who then ended up in a
concentration camp.
Das Milieu des Templer Reichs - Die Sklaven Sollen Dienen. Hanns Heinz Ewers - Lanz von Liebenfels - Karl Germer, Arnoldo Krumm-Heller - Martha Kuentzel - Friedrich Lekve - Hermann Joseph Metzger - Christian Bouchet - Paolo Fogagnolo - James Wasserman. Unbequeme Aspekte in der Geschichte von O.T.O. und Thelema
English Version The Templar's Reich
When Germer died in 1962, Birven started to call himself "the sole and only friend of the deceased".
Heinrich / Henri Birven über Karl Germer, mit Details zu Heinrich Tränker, Martha Kuentzel, Gerald Yorke, Aleister Crowley
 | "Der O.T.O.-Phaenomen REMIX" contains Birven's biographical notes on Karl Germer and Heinrich Traenker. "Noch Mehr Materialien zum O.T.O." contains facsimiles of Birven's correspondence with Martha Kuentzel, Aleister Crowley et alii. Of Booksellers And Other Grand Masters of the O.T.O.: Detailed biographies on Heinrich Tränker, Karl Germer, Henri Birven, Spencer Lewis, C.H. Petersen, Eduard Munninger -- and their relation with the O.T.O. under Reuss, Crowley and Metzger -- containing Henri Birven's "Obituary on Karl Germer" with interesting details about Crowley in Berlin in 1930 |
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