Albrecht Haushofer was a professor of political geography in Berlin, author of tragedies in verse, and representative of conservative resistance in Germany during World War II.
Born in 1903, he was the son of Karl Haushofer, the German geopolitical theoretician, whose student, Rudolf Hess, was Hitler's deputy. Albrecht Haushofer is thought to have encouraged Hess' failed flight to England. Afterwards, he was spied on by the Gestapo and arrested in December 1944. In the Berlin-Moabit prison, he wrote the "Moabite Sonnets," which were not discovered until after his death. Haushofer was shot by an SS commando on April 23, 1945.
