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[[Image:TE_Hubbe.jpg|thumb|200px|<center>''Wilhelm Hubbe-Schleiden''</center>]]

(1846-1916).  General Secretary of the German Section, 1912-13.  He was born in Hamburg on October 26, 1846, and educated in the universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg, Munich and Leipzig.  He practiced as a lawyer for some time and was appointed  Consular Attaché in West Africa where he developed German colonial policy. In 1884 Hubbe-Schleiden read Alfred P. SINNETT’S ''Esoteric Buddhism'' and in consequence joined the Theosophical Society (TS) and moved to Elberfeld in July 27, 1884.  He was the founder-President of the first German lodge of the Theosophical Society.  In 1894 he paid a prolonged visit to India to study Hindu philosophy and dedicated himself to searching for proofs of reincarnation and karma.  He died May 7, 1916.

Publications:

''Ethiopia'' (1878), ''Oversea Politics'' (1880), and ''India and the Indians''.


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