Karl Haushofer was a German geographer who built interwar *Geopolitik* into a national project, founding the *Zeitschrift für Geopolitik* in 1924 and promoting ideas such as Lebensraum and self-sufficient regional blocs. Rudolf Hess was his student at the University of Munich, and historians still argue over how far Haushofer's ideas shaped [[Adolf Hitler]]; see [[Geopolitics]]. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet.