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Johann von Leers was born on 25 January, 1902 in Karbow-Vietlübbe, Germany, is a Nazi and Egyptian propagandist (1902–1965). Discover Johann von Leers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 25 January, 1902
Birthday 25 January
Birthplace Karbow-Vietlübbe, Germany
Date of death 1965
Died Place Cairo, Egypt
Nationality Germany

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1902

Omar Amin (born Johann Jakob von Leers; 25 January 1902 – 5 March 1965) was an Alter Kämpfer and an honorary Sturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany, where he was also a professor known for his anti-Jewish polemics.

He was one of the most important ideologues of the Third Reich, serving as a high-ranking propaganda ministry official.

He later served in the Egyptian Information Department, as well as an advisor to Gamal Abdel Nasser.

He published for Goebbels, in Peron's Argentina and for Nasser's Egypt.

He converted to Islam, and changed his name to Omar Amin.

Johann von Leers was born in Vietlübbe, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany on 25 January 1902.

He studied law at the universities of Berlin, Kiel, and Rostock, and eventually worked as an attache in the German Foreign Office.

He joined the Viking League Free Corps and then Adler und Falke.

1909

In it, she portrays Per Engdahl (1909–1994), the leader of the Swedish fascist movement, who created an escape route for Nazis from all parts of Europe.

This route passed through northern Germany and Denmark, leading to Malmö in Sweden.

From there, the fleeing Nazis were smuggled to various places in southern Sweden and then sent by ship from Gothenburg to South America.

Engdahl claimed to have "saved" about 4,000 Nazis in this way.

1920

During the late 1920s, Leers was the leading foreign policy critic of the Strasserist wing of the Nazi Party and was a staunch critic of Alfred Rosenberg.

1929

Leers became actively involved in völkisch politics during the Weimar Republic and joined the Nazi Party in 1929.

1933

He was a district speaker and leader of the National Socialist Students' League, and in 1933 signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft, the "vow of most faithful allegiance" to Adolf Hitler.

Supporting himself by writing freelance articles for the Nazi Party press, after the Nazis came to power in 1933, Leers was summoned by Joseph Goebbels to work in the propaganda ministry, where he was assigned to proliferate party propaganda, eventually penning 27 books between 1933 and 1945.

Leers was a proponent of realpolitik, advocating a race-free foreign relations policy on the basis of relationship and alliance.

1934

He wrote the memo which led to the exemption of non-Jewish racial minorities from race laws in the Third Reich in 1934, 1936, and 1937.

1936

In 1936, Leers was commissioned into the Waffen-SS as an under-Sturmbannführer, eventually becoming a full honorary Sturmbannführer.

He went on to serve as a lecturer at the University of Jena.

Leers wrote the notorious anti-Semitic tract (published and popular during the Third Reich), Juden sehen dich an (Jews Are Looking at You).

He was fluent in five languages, including Dutch and Japanese.

1942

Jeffrey Herf reports that in December 1942 Leers published an article in Die Judenfrage, a journal which belonged to the anti-Semitic intellectual world, entitled "Judaism and Islam as Opposites".

As the title indicates, the author's perspective is Hegelian, presenting Judaism and Islam in terms of thesis and antithesis.

This essay also reveals the ingratiating National Socialist perspective which Leers projected on the Islamic past, as well as the intensity of his hatred for Judaism and Jewry.

The following passage is part of the original text:

1945

In 1945, Leers fled from Germany to Italy, where he lived for five years, then in 1950 migrated to Argentina, where he continued his propaganda activities.

1947

During this period he was a contributor to Der Weg, a Nazi publication founded in Buenos Aires in 1947.

He was praised by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a Nazi wartime ally, for his loyalty to Arab nationalism.

Thereafter he moved from Argentina to Egypt.

In Buenos Aires, Leers became editor of Der Weg and praised the American neo-fascist Francis Parker Yockey and his book Imperium for its understanding of Russia, which was heavily influenced by Oswald Spengler's concept of "psuedomorphosis".

The Swedish journalist and writer Elisabeth Åsbrink probed the reasons for Sweden's centrality in the European far-right scene in her book 1947: When Now Begins.

One of those whom Engdahl assisted was Johann von Leers, who "arrived in Malmö in 1947, and ... got to Buenos Aires, where he edited a paper that became a communications channel between Nazis in Europe and those who ended up in Latin America".

Leers was later persuaded to migrate to Egypt by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who by then was a Palestinian leader living in Egypt, with whom he was in close contact.

There, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Omar Amin, as a gesture to his benefactor, and became the political adviser to the Information Department under Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, as well as being friendly with al-Husseini.

Eventually he became the head of President Nasser's 'Israeli' propaganda unit and served as head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism, managing anti-Israeli propaganda.

Leers was a mentor of Ahmed Huber and networked with Muslim emigres in Hamburg, while also being an acquaintance of Otto Ernst Remer in the country.

1965

Leers died in Egypt on 5 March 1965, aged 63.

His remains were returned to Germany at the expense of the Egyptian government and in June 1965 were buried in Schutterwald, in an islamic funeral.