Biography

• Born on 16th November 1894 in Tokyo.
• Studied history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, 1916 Promotion to Dr. Phil. Active as independent writer.
• Published the political text ‘Paneuropa’ in 1923; he founded the Paneuropean Movement in the same year. Between the years 1924 and 1938 he published the journal ‘Paneuropa’, in which he did all he could to form a European confederation.
• During the war he stayed in Pressburg, Bern and, from 1940, in New York, where he taught as professor of history and set up a research department for a European post-war federation. He relocated to Switzerland in 1946.
• In 1947 he became General Secretary of the European Parliamentary Union, which he had founded himself.
• Died on 27th July 1972.