Friedrich von Bernhardi (November 22, 1849, Russian Empire—December 11, 1930) was a German militarist, perhaps best known for his bellicose book Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg (Germany and the Next War), printed in 1912. He advocated a policy of ruthless aggression and complete disregard of treaties and regarded war as a "divine business". As of 1935 he was generally supposed to be the spokesman of German feeling prior to 1914.

Partial bibliography

• Videant Consules: Ne Quid Respublica Detrimenti Capiat (1890) (Let the consuls see to it that no harm comes to the republic) (published anonymously)
• Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg. (1912) (Germany and the Next War)
• Vom heutigen Kriege. (1912) (On War of Today)
• Vom Kriege der Zukunft, nach den Erfahrungen des Weltkrieges. (1920) (On War of the Future, in light of the lessons of the World War)

References

• Campion, Loren Keith. "Behind the modern Drang nach Osten: Baltic émigrés and russophobia in nineteenth-century Germany." Dissertation, Indiana University, 1965.
• This article incorporates text from The Modern World Encyclopædia: Illustrated (1935); out of UK copyright as of 2005.