--- title: "4 August Kubizek Quotes - Famous Conductor" description: "Austrian musician, soldier, and friend of Adolf Hitler (1888–1956)... | August Friedrich Kubizek was an Austrian musical conductor and writer best known..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb4/august-kubizek-72854_adoration_so-in-spite-of-all-apparent-contradictio_415450.jpg" --- # August Kubizek (1888–1956) Conductor **4** quotes in **18** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet August Kubizek was a conductor. ## Quick Facts About August Kubizek Born August 3, 1888 Died October 23, 1956 Profession Conductor ## About August Kubizek Austrian musician, soldier, and friend of Adolf Hitler (1888–1956)... \| August Friedrich Kubizek was an Austrian musical conductor and writer best known for being a close friend of Adolf Hitler, when both were in their late teens. He later wrote about their friendship in his book The Young Hitler I Knew (1955). ## Quotes by August Kubizek > [“So, in spite of all apparent contradictions, this strange love of Hitler for Stefanie falls into the pattern of his character. Love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-kubizek/so-in-spite-of-all-apparent-contradictions-this-strange-love-of/) August Kubizek [Adoration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adoration/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb4/august-kubizek-72854_adoration_so-in-spite-of-all-apparent-contradictio_415450.jpg) > [ “Perhaps the difference between us was that he \[Adolf Hitler\] took things seriously which seemed to me quite unimportant. Yes, this was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-kubizek/perhaps-the-difference-between-us-was-that-he-adolf-hitler-took/) August Kubizek [Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hitler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5a/august-kubizek-72854_hitler_perhaps-the-difference-between-us-was-th_525528.jpg) > [ “It was not sympathy in the ordinary sense which he \[Adolf Hitler\] felt for the disinherited. That would not have been sufficient.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-kubizek/it-was-not-sympathy-in-the-ordinary-sense-which-he-adolf-hitler-felt/) August Kubizek [Dedication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dedication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/829/august-kubizek-72854_dedication_it-was-not-sympathy-in-the-ordinary-sens_2364652.jpg) > [“Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-kubizek/hitherto-i-had-been-convinced-that-my-friend-wanted-to-become-an/) August Kubizek [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b29/august-kubizek-72854_art_hitherto-i-had-been-convinced-that-my-fr_2980973.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/august-kubizek/#itemlist", "name": "August Kubizek Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“So, in spite of all apparent contradictions, this strange love of Hitler for Stefanie falls into the pattern of his character. Love was a field where the unforeseeable might happen, and which might become dangerous. How many men who had set out with great intentions had been forced off their path by irregular and complicated love affairs. It was imperative to be on one's guard! Instinctively, the young Hitler found the only correct attitude in his love for Stefanie: he possessed a being whom he loved, and at the same time, he did not possess her. He arranged his whole life as though he possessed this beloved creature entirely. But as he himself avoided any personal meeting, this girl, although he could see that she walked the earth, remained nevertheless a creature of his dream world, towards whom he could project his desires, plans and ideas. And thus he kept himself from deviating from his own path; indeed, this strange relationship, through the power of love, increased his own will. He imagines Stefanie as his wife, builds the house in which they live together, surrounds it with a magnificent garden and arranges his home with Stefanie, just as, in fact, he did later on the Ober-Salzburg, though without her. This mixing of dream and reality is characteristic of the young Hitler. And whenever there is a danger that the beloved would entirely escape into the realm of fantasy, he hurries to the Schmiedtoreck and makes sure that she really walks the earth. Hitler was confirmed in the choice of his path, not by what Stefanie actually was, but by what his imagination made of her. Thus, Stefanie was two things for him, one part reality and one part wish and imagination. 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