In 1894, he claimed to have become " enlightened" after finding the tombstone of a Knight Templar, and began developing his theories of "blue-blond Aryanism" and " lower races". Lanz became a monk in the Cistercian order in 1893, assuming the name Georg and living in the Heiligenkreuz monastery. Consequently, he claimed to be the son of Baron Johannes Lancz de Liebenfels and began to call himself "Baron Adolf Georg (Jörg) Lanz Von Liebenfels Ph.D." His mother was believed to have been of Jewish ancestry, making him fail his own racial criteria. His parents were middle class, and his father's ancestors had been burghers in Vienna since the early 18th century. He was born on 19 July 1874 in the Penzing district of Vienna in what was then Austria-Hungary, as the son of schoolmaster Johann Lanz and his wife Katharina, née Hoffenreich.
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