Peter Supf

Born: 1886.

Died: 1961.

Peter Supf was a kind of German Antoine de St.-Éxupéry: "aviator poet," novelist, and correspondent of many writers, including Thomas Mann. Peter Supf's writing career began after wartime service as a fighter pilot. In 1919 Supf had published innovative poems describing the psychology and aesthetics of the flying experience, following up with more poems, adventure fiction, and aviation books. He contributed to arguments for justifying German rearmament. In 1939, Im Deutschen Verlag, Berlin, published Supf's Luftwaffe schlägt zu! Der Luftkrieg in Polen, propaganda to encourage Luftwaffe recruitment for Nazi Germany.

Aleister Crowley met Peter Supf in Berlin on 22 July 1931 and he became his regular drinking and dining companion.