Friedrich Bernhard Marby

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Friedrich Bernhard Marby (born May 10, 1882 in Aurich , † December 3, 1966 in Stuttgart ) was a German publisher, occultist and esotericist .

Life

Friedrich Bernhard Marby learned typesetter and began to work in the publishing world. He was involved in newspaper and book production. Astrology , homeopathy and occultism were among his hobbies . In the 1920s he ran his own publishing house with folk and esoteric literature and published his own magazine “ Der Eigen Weg ”. His major works include four works on so-called runic gymnastics , a teaching that Far Eastern practices such as yoga , Tai Chi and Reiki with the runes doctrine of racial esoteric by Guido von List and located in fashion naturism mixed. Together with the (later hostile) Siegfried Adolf Kummer , he saw himself as a “tool of the gods” and called, who could read out certain meditation postures from the various runes. In 1931 he founded the Association of Runic Researchers, which, however, remained largely unsuccessful.

While Kummer came to terms with the regime during the Nazi era , Marby fared much worse. His publishing house went bankrupt in 1936. Marby also tried to come to terms with the new rulers. The avowed anti-Semite was a supporting member of the SS . However, this did not protect him from persecution. He was denounced as an anti-Nazi occultist and arrested in 1938. From then on, he spent a total of 97 months in protective custody . He was listed by the National Socialists as both a political and a criminal prisoner and was first imprisoned in Welzheim and then Flossenbürg before he was brought to Dachau . He was liberated on April 29, 1945.

After the Second World War he tried to resume his previous activities. He received no compensation for his stay in the concentration camp because of his proven anti-Semitism. The Marby publishing house was newly founded. Marby still had a small group of followers, for whom he wrote newsletters and various books. He also published the journal “ Research and Experience ”. He died in Stuttgart in 1966.

reception

Marby's work before and after the Nazi era was relatively unsuccessful. Although he was able to mobilize a certain following, the number of members of his clubs remained marginal. Karl Spiesberger continued Marby's research in the 1950s. Parts of Marby's teachings were taken up by the Armanen Order . Marby himself was rediscovered in the 1980s by the esoteric publisher Rudolf Spieth , who brought out some of his works again and who sees his publisher as the successor to Marby Verlag. The esoteric scene today sells Marby as a bitter opponent of Hitler , which he never was. His term was extended to " 99 " months to take account of the mystery of numbers . A collection of sources and literature on him is in the archive of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Works

  • Is Hypnosis Harmful? . Stuttgart: self-published in 1924
  • The language of the head . Stuttgart: self-published in 1924
  • The shape of the cross in flesh and blood . Stuttgart: self-published in 1924
  • From the love and sex life of women . Stuttgart: self-published in 1924
  • Hamburg Uranus Calendar . Uranus-Verlag 1928
  • Runic writing, rune word, rune gymnastics . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1931
  • Marby runic gymnastics . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1932
  • Runes whisper advice! . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1934
  • Racial gymnastics as a Aufrassungsweg - Book 1: ideological religious basics . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1935
  • Racial Gymnastics as a Raising Path - Book 2: The Rose Gardens and the Eternal Land of the Race . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1935
  • The three swans . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1957.
  • The way to the mothers in the midst of the chain of rebirths, rediscovered in the murmur of the runes and the technique of the rune training facilities . Stuttgart: Marby-Verlag 1957
  • Sun and planets in the zodiac . Stuttgart: Spieth Verlag 1975. ISBN 3-88093-003-1
  • Astrological name interpretation. Name, character and fate. Spieth Verlag, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-88093-007-4

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Wedemeyer: "To the light". The nudist culture in the Wilhelmine era and the Weimar Republic between the ethnic movement, occultism and neo-paganism . In: Archives for cultural history . tape 81 , issue 1, ISSN  2194-3958 , p. 194 . (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
  2. ↑ a b c d Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe: Runic gymnastics. From völkisch physical culture to alternative self-awareness practice . In: Völkisch and national. On the topicality of old thought patterns in the 21st century . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-20040-5 , pp. 329-340 .
  3. ↑ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: The Occult Roots of National Socialism . New edition, Marix, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 142.
  4. ↑ Ann-Laurence Maréchal: Construction and differentiation processes neo-Germanic-heathen religiosity (2010) . In: Dorothea Lüddeckens and Rafael Walthert (eds.): Fluide Religion - New religious movements in transition. Theoretical and empirical systematizations . transcript Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8394-1250-3 , pp. 192 f . (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
  5. ↑ Wir über uns , Spieth-Verlag website, accessed on July 30, 2015
  6. ^ Friedrich Bernhard Marby , autobiographical writing by Marby from the estate on the Spieth-Verlag website, accessed on July 30, 2015
  7. ↑ http://nish.de/index.php/archiv.html
personal data
SURNAME Marby, Friedrich Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, occultist and esotericist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1966
Place of death Stuttgart