The founding father of Pan-Europa Movement

Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi (en: Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi), (Tokyo, November 17, 1894 to Schruns, Vorarlberg, July 27, 1972) was an Austrian politician and geopolitician. He was the son of an Austro-Hungarian count and diplomat, and a Japanese mother. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna and worked as journalist and editor of the journal "Paneuropa". He is recognised as the founder of the first popular movement for a united Europe. In 1923 he published a manifesto entitled Pan-Europa, each copy contained a membership form which invited the reader to become a member of the Pan-Europa movement.

Race and the Jews

Coudenhove-Kalergi held some controversial, less known, opinions about race mixing and the role of the Jews, issues commonly associated with nazism. In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism, Wien/Leipzig 1925, pages 20, 23, 50) he wrote:
"The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.

Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process. No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility through spiritual grace. This happened at the moment when Europe’s feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation."

Addendum
This wiennese journalist freemason nobleman, Kalergi's mother was Japanese and his wife was the well known Jewish actress, Roland (Klausner Ida), who played on stages, and also had an important part in the Pan-Europa Movement. +++