Witte was not interned but he was under police observation by the GeStaPo. He committed suicide (he worried about his state pension), in 1941. His work was resurrected by his students, among whom was Ludwig Rudolph, after 1945. The American Richard Svehla, Phoenix Bookshop, Cleveland, Ohio, was in the early 1930s one of the first who introduced the Witte-Astrology in the USA. He received the authorization for the translation of the "Rules for Planetary Pictures". It was published under the subtitle "Uranian System of Astrology - Hamburg School by Alfred Witte" in 1939. In the mid 20th century, a collection of Witte's observations and techniques came to be described in the English speaking world as Uranian astrology. See also Cosmobiology Hamburg School of Astrology References 1878 births 1941 suicides German astrologers Writers from Hamburg German astrological writers Suicides in Germany German male writers