Adolf Hitler
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Suggested Socionics type: EIE (FeNi, ENFj)
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Type Arguments
Argument for EIE: Very expressive, maximalistic, and idealistic. His best known personal trait was his ability to persuade crowds with passionate speeches, heavily emphasizing rhetoric over factual arguments. He promised a new age for Germany, but at the same time appealed to its long-standing cultural values of conquest and national pride. In particular, he used the reputation of its past leaders as a means to enhance his own. A primary influence on Hitler's Nazism was the philosophy of Nietzsche, another likely ENFj, and it obviously reflects a Beta philosophy: one of struggle (Se), passion (Fe), and ideological revolution (Ti).
The typing EIE is argued at Socionics.us.
Argument against EIE: His life as a failed student of art and architecture before fighting in WWI had a "go-with-the-flow" flavour, in pursuit of specific dreams, which seem to fit more IEI rather than EIE.
Argument against IEI: Hitler's aggressive, outwardly-directed rule led Germany through a period of incredible expansion and development in many different areas of society. Such an expansive leadership style (other examples are Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Caesar) is often associated with extraversion.
Alternative Typings
Alternative suggested socionics types: LSI, SLE, IEI, LIE, LSE
Typings at SSS database: Adolf Hitler
Suggested enneagram variants: 6, 8w7, 1, so/sp, sx/so.