Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster

thumb| Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (2 June 1869 – 9 January 1966) was a German academic, educationist, pacifist and philosopher, known for his public opposition to Nazism. Quotes It is the snowdrop on the hard German snow. It announces the German spring. It is a real consolation to every German who was ready to doubt whether the German soul would ever escape from the enchantment in which its pursuit of Power seemed to have inextricably involved it. That, in the midst of anger and hatred, misery and despair, this German flower could bloom is not only a glad hope for those to whom true Germanism is their spiritual home, but for other countries which feared that the de-Germanised German had come to stay. Of the German Youth Movement, as quoted in Alec Dickson, "An Eye-Witness in Bohemia", The National Review, vol. 111, no. 669 (Nov. 1938) p. 628 External links Category:Academics from Germany Category:Educators from Germany Category:Pacifists Category:Philosophers from Germany Category:1869 births Category:1966 deaths