Helmut Kellershohn

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Helmut Kellershohn (* 1949 ) is a German historian and right-wing extremism researcher . He is a founding member and board member of the Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research (DISS).

Life

Helmut Kellershohn studied history and Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . According to his own statements, he was active as a student in the 1968 movement . Since 1976 he has been working in these subjects in the school service, from 1978 as a teacher, most recently senior teacher , at the Gymnasium in den Filder Benden , an independent advanced high school in Moers . He took early retirement in 2011 .

In 1987 he was one of the founders of the independent research institute Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS). Kellershohn works on the subjects of right-wing extremism , conservatism and ethnic nationalism . He is the author and editor of numerous works, his contributions have appeared a. a. in the in-house DISS-Journal and on the blog DISSkursiv , in anti-fascist papers such as Antifaschistische Nachrichten and Der Rechts Rand , in political magazines such as concrete (together with Anton Maegerle ) and in the circular from the “AG Right-Wing Extremism / Antifascism” on the PDS party executive , in the science magazine Forum Wissenschaft , in the national daily newspapers Junge Welt and the daily newspaper as well as in the yearbook of the archive of the German youth movement and in the journal for historical science .

In recent years he has given lectures and workshops on behalf of various educational and research institutions such as the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz (topic: media right-wing populism as the reproduction of racist resentment) and the research focus right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences (topic: alternative for Germany / Young Conservatism) true. In addition, he was invited by the SPD parliamentary group as an expert to a hearing in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg (topic: Young Freedom / Völkischer Nationalismus).

Kellershohn was repeatedly quoted as a right-wing extremism expert in national media such as Deutschlandradio Kultur , Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Handelsblatt . For example, he commented on the attacks on asylum seekers' homes in 2015 with: “The climate that Pegida, Legida and AfD created last year was deliberately exploited by extreme rights.” A “highly dangerous mixture” was created.

Kellershohn is a member of the working group on comparative dictatorship and extremism research in the German Association for Political Science (DVPW).

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Kellershohn considers the so-called New Right to be a “broad current in the transition area between right-wing extremism and right-wing conservatism ”. Central to Kellershohn's research are his widely acclaimed studies on the Völkisch nationalism of the New Right, which he understands as a “synthesis of nationalism and racism ”. He counts the following seven points among its "core ideologues":

  • "The equation of people and nation , that is, the idea of ​​a 'homogenized nation' according to nationalist racist criteria" ",
  • "The justification of a 'strong' state",
  • "The elevation of the people to a collective subject" (see Volksgemeinschaft ),
  • "The heroization of the national comrade , the 'decent German'",
  • "Conversely, the ethnic / racist construction of an internal enemy" (see scapegoat function , xenophobia ),
  • "A biopolitical understanding of the ' people 's body '" (see sexism ),
  • and “a chauvinistic power state thinking”.

The most important object of investigation by Kellersohn is the extreme right-wing (weekly) newspaper Junge Freiheit (JF). He keeps pointing u. a. in a recognized anthology on the JF on the recourse of the organ to the " Conservative Revolution " of the Weimar Republic and thus its anti-democratic list. In particular, it is about the young conservative direction. The milieu tries more to recapture concepts in terms of content than to adapt. The anthology Das Plagiat: Der völkische Nationalismus der Junge Freiheit (1994) was very detailed. So he brought the editorial environment of the JF in connection with the German Guilds (DG). He attests to the DG a "mixture of nationalistic sentiments, soldierly attitude and youthful urge to confess". He also placed them in a "gray area between the German national wing of the Union parties, the displaced parties (50s / 60s), the NPD (60s / 70s), the approaches to a 'fourth party" in the 70s and the right-wing conservative to right-wing extremists Party foundations in recent times. “The DISS joint venture Nation instead of Democracy: Being and Design of" Junge Freiheit " (2003; 2nd edition 2004) is regarded as a standard work in professional circles .

In addition, he worked out three options for right-wing extremism:

  • "Terrorist" (see militant neo-Nazism ),
  • "Metapolitical" (see networks of the new rights),
  • and "populist" about going to parliament.

As early as the 1980s, he was concerned with the right-wing party The Republicans, which is interwoven with the JF, in his own publications . In addition, in the course of a lawsuit concerning the proper monitoring of the party by the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution , he supported a linguistic report on their language and theory, prepared by the linguists Sonja Bredehöft and Franz Januschek . In it, the authors argued that the party's language had “aggressive-hostile behavior” and was directed against the Free Democratic Basic Order (FdGO).

He recently referred to the New Right's links with the Alternative for Germany party (AfD).

Reviews of his publications

In a literary report on right-wing extremism, published in the yearbook Extremism & Democracy from 1990, Eckhard Jesse summed up that Kellershohn said of the Republicans in his work The Volkish Nationalism of the Republicans. Ideology and Programmatics (1989) wanted to prove a “völkisch-nationalistic worldview”. An important point of reference is the “authoritarian state”. Kellershohn has gathered a number of “indications” for this.

Kellershohn's anthology Das Plagiat. The völkisch nationalism of the young freedom (1994) was u. a. reviewed in the Sociological Review ( Irmgard Pinn ) and in der Zeit ( Brigitta Huhnke ). In the opinion of Pinn, the authors at the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research examined Junge Freiheit critically. They "entered the right-wing extremist swamp in order to scientifically illuminate the intellectual scene there, to track down the organizational networks and the review and citation cartels," said Huhnke. Only the topic of anti-feminism was “incompletely described” .

His volume, The ' German Voice ' of 'Junge Freiheit' , published in 2013, brings together contributions that were created over several years at the DISS. For the first time, the central organs of the new and extreme right will be examined comparatively. The political scientist Dirk Burmester found in his review for the portal for political science : “The volume leads deep into the ideological worlds of German right-wing extremism. It becomes clear where and why neo-Nazis differ from the New Right, from which intellectual traditions they argue and which strategies they choose. Since the latter in particular are sometimes difficult to reveal, the book is an important contribution to raising awareness and civic education. "

About the anthology Capitalism and / or Democracy? Contributions to the critique of "market-conforming" democratic relationships (2014) read on the portal for political science by the reviewer Clemens Reichhold: “Far from a moralizing critique of capitalism, the volume offers an analytically differentiated perspective on the social and political forms of crisis-ridden capitalist society. Discourses, spaces and structures in which hegemony is contested are analyzed. "

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Anthologies

  • (Ed.): The plagiarism. The Volkish Nationalism of Young Freedom . Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research, Duisburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-927388-44-4 .
  • with Siegfried Jäger, Andreas Disselnkötter , Susanne Slobodzian (eds.): Evidenzen im Fluß. Loss of democracy in Germany. Model D - Gender - Racism - PC . Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research, Duisburg 1997, ISBN 3-927388-60-2 .
  • with Annelie Buntenbach , Dirk Kretschmer (Eds.): Backwards into the future. On the ideology of neoconservatism . Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research, Duisburg 1998, ISBN 3-927388-64-5 .
  • with Heiko Kauffmann , Jobst Paul (Ed.): Völkische Bande. Decadence and rebirth. Analysis of right-wing ideology (= Edition DISS . Vol. 8). Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-737-9 .
  • with Regina Wamper , Martin Dietzsch (eds.): Rechts Diskurspiraterien. Strategies for appropriating left codes, symbols and forms of action (= Edition DISS . Vol. 28). Unrast Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89771-757-2 .
  • (Ed.): The “German Voice” of the “Junge Freiheit”. Readings of völkisch nationalism in central publications of the extreme right (= Edition DISS . Vol. 23). Unrast Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-89771-752-7 .
  • with Jobst Paul (ed.): The struggle for spaces. Neoliberal and extreme right concepts of hegemony and expansion . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-89771-763-3 .
  • with Wolfgang Kastrup (Ed.): Capitalism and / or Democracy? Contributions to the criticism of “market-conforming” democratic relationships (= Edition DISS . Vol. 36). Unrast Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89771-765-7

Contributions

  • The programmed school. To the criticism of the technology of the school . In: Margret Jäger, Siegfried Jäger, Dieter Kantel : "The mind is well trained ...". Computers in school and at work . Verlag Die Schulpraxis , Mühlheim 1985, ISBN 3-924884-36-6 , pp. 115-197.
  • with Birgit Rother : Wanderer in the foggy field - the “Third Way” of the New Age . In: Siegfried Jäger (Ed.): Rechtsdruck. The press of the New Right (= Dietz-Taschenbuch . 24). Dietz-Verlag , Berlin a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-8012-3024-4 , pp. 119-145.
  • "Our program is called Germany". The contribution of the republicans to the renaissance of nationalist thought in Germany . In: Christoph Butterwegge , Siegfried Jäger (Ed.): Racism in Europe . Bund-Verlag , Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7663-2379-2 , pp. 86-104. (2nd edition 1993)
  • Opening to the right. Wolfgang Schäuble's contribution to the structuring of the neoconservative discourse . In: Margret Jäger, Siegfried Jäger (Ed.): Construction sites. Contributions to the history of discourse in contemporary Germany . Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research, Duisburg 1996, ISBN 3-927388-56-4 , pp. 91-106.
  • Shifts in the Neoconservative Discourse. Comments on Wolfgang Schäuble “And facing the future” . In: Gabi Cleve , Ina Ruth , Ernst Schulte-Holtey , Frank Wichert (eds.): Science makes politics. Interventions in current social discourses. Siegfried Jäger on his 60th birthday . Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag , Münster 1997, ISBN 3-89691-406-5 , pp. 341-357.
  • The double game of Junge Freiheit using the example of the Hohmann affair . In: Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch (ed.): Right networks - a danger . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , pp. 79–94.
  • Short chronology of the "Junge Freiheit" 1986 to 2006 and people, state and nation. Contours of völkisch nationalism in the "Junge Freiheit" . In: Stephan Braun, Ute Vogt (ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit" . Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 , pp. 43–56 and 117–145.
  • Is völkisch nationalism the foundation of the NPD? . In: Fabian Virchow , Christian Dornbusch (Ed.): 88 questions and answers on the NPD. Worldview, strategy and appearance of a right-wing party - and what democrats can do about it . Wochenschau Verlag , Schwalbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-89974-365-4 , pp. 53-56.
  • Resistance and provocation. Strategic options in the vicinity of the “Institute for State Policy” . In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler , Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background analysis answers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 , pp. 259-289.
  • The young conservative New Right in the 'pre-civil war' . In: Regina Wamper, Ekaterina Jadtschenko , Marc Jacobsen (eds.): “That has nothing to do with us.” The attacks in Norway in German-language media (= Edition DISS . Vol. 30). Unrast Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89771-759-6 , pp. 106-118.
  • On the way to civil war? Young conservative media after the attacks in Norway . In: Peter Bathke , Anke Hoffstadt (ed.): The new right in Europe. Between neoliberalism and racism . PapyRossa Verlag , Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89438-507-1 , pp. 237-254.
  • The Institute for State Policy and the Young Conservative Hegemony Project . In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers . 2nd updated and expanded edition, Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01983-9 , p. 439 ff.
  • Population change and pre-civil war . In: Bente Gießelmann, Robin Heun, Benjamin Kerst, Lenard Suermann, Fabian Virchow (eds.): Concise dictionary of right-wing extremist fighting terms . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0155-8 , pp. 282–297 and pp. 326–339.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Schwerdtfeger: The moving tube . In: Rheinische Post , June 20, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b Cornelia Brandt: Seven go into retirement in one go . In: Rheinische Post , July 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ see authors, in: Peter Bathke , Anke Hoffstadt (ed.): Die neue Rechten in Europa. Between neoliberalism and racism . PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89438-507-1 , p. 351 f.
  4. ↑ Kellershohn, Helmut , Linksnet , accessed on July 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ Murat Çakır : The new right in Europe: Between neoliberalism and social racism . Conference report, Jenny Marx Society. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 2011.
  6. ↑ The nature and future of the AfD - a conference . In: Forena Forum 2 (2015) 1, p. 1.
  7. ↑ Michael Pechel: "Schicksalsgemeinschaft" . Look to the right , November 23, 2006.
  8. ^ Rolf Cantzen : Urkraft Volk . Deutschlandradio Kultur , August 22, 2007.
  9. ↑ Martin Teigeler: Enlightenment of the neo-Nazi terror lagging behind . Westdeutscher Rundfunk , July 10, 2012.
  10. ↑ a b Kathrin Witsch: The search for the scapegoat . handelsblatt.de , July 21, 2015.
  11. ^ Working group on comparative research on dictatorship and extremism: members , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , accessed on July 19, 2015.
  12. ↑ Helmut Fröchling: The new right in the focus of the protection of the constitution . In: Wolfgang Gessenharter , Helmut Fröchling (eds.): Right-wing extremism and new rights in Germany. Re-measurement of a political-ideological space? . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2053-2 , pp. 119-137, here: p. 125.
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter , Helmut Fröchling: New Right and the extreme right in Germany . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism (= Antifa Edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , pp. 550-571, here: p. 557.
  14. ↑ Clemens Heni : Salon ability of the new right: "National identity". Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany 1970–2005. Henning Eichberg as an example . With a foreword by Anton Pelinka , Tectum, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8288-9216-3 , p. 94.
  15. ^ Siegfried Jäger , Alfred Schobert : The view over the canal . In: Roger Griffin , Werner Loh, Andreas Umland (Eds.): Fascism Past and Present, West and East. An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right (= Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society . 35). With an afterword by Walter Laqueur , Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89821-674-8 , pp. 130–135, here: p. 131.
  16. ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen : The new right in Germany. Anti-democratic and racist tendencies . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3078-3 , p. 49.
  17. ↑ Michael Minkenberg : The new radical right in comparison. USA, France, Germany . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-531-13227-X , p. 162 f.
  18. ↑ Alexander Häusler : The “NationalstoIz” debate as a milestone in a right-wing development of the middle class . In: Christoph Butterwegge et al .: Topics of the Right - Topics of the Middle. Immigration, demographic change and national awareness . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3419-3 , p. 141 f.
  19. ↑ Christoph Butterwegge : Development, current status and prospects of right-wing extremism research . In the S. et al .: right-wing extremists in parliaments. State of research, case studies, counter-strategies . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-8100-1776-0 , pp. 9-53, here: pp. 29 f.
  20. ↑ Heinz Hachel: For class, race and nation. The double romanticism of the folkish bald heads . In: Klaus Farin (Ed.): The Skins. Myth and Reality . Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-136-4 , pp. 142–167, here: p. 162.
  21. ^ Samuel Salzborn : [Review of: The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit". Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers] . In: DÖW communications , volume 184, December 2007, p. 11.
  22. ↑ Stefan Kubon: [Review of the weekly newspaper ›› Junge Freiheit ‹‹. Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers] . In: Zeitschrift für Politik , vol. 54 (2007), no. 4, pp. 481–483, here: p. 483.
  23. ↑ Volker Weiß : The "Conservative Revolution". Spiritual place of remembrance of the "New Right" . In: Martin Langebach , Michael Sturm (ed.): Places of Remembrance of the Extreme Right (= Edition right-wing extremism . 101). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-00130-8 , pp. 101–120, here: p. 116.
  24. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter , Helmut Fröchling: New Right and the extreme right in Germany . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism (= Antifa Edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , pp. 550-571, here: p. 561.
  25. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter , Helmut Fröchling: New Right and the extreme right in Germany . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism (= Antifa Edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , pp. 550-571, here: p. 560.
  26. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer : Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 13.
  27. ^ Dietrich Heither , Gerhard Schäfer : Student connections between conservatism and right-wing extremism . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism (= Antifa Edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , pp. 865-884, here: pp. 870 f.
  28. ↑ Anton Maegerle , Daniel Hörsch: “The fight for heads” has begun. Pioneers, strategists and pioneers of right-wing networks . In: Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch (ed.): Right networks - a danger . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , pp. 113–122, here: p. 120.
  29. ↑ Christoph Butterwegge , Lüder Meier: Bremen - the smallest federal state as a parliamentary experimental field for the extreme right (1951/52, 1967–1971, 1987–1995) . In: Christoph Butterwegge et al .: Right-wing extremists in parliaments. State of research, case studies, counter-strategies . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-8100-1776-0 , pp. 55–146, here: p. 55.
  30. ^ Hans-Georg Golz: Sonja Bredehöft / Franz Januschek: Doppelzüngler. The language of the "Republicans" (rec.). In: Deutschland Archiv 28 (1995) 1, pp. 110–111.
  31. ↑ Martin Wengeler : Language - dispute - political culture. Working conference of the working group "Language in Politics" University of Koblenz-Landau, 12.-14. 5th 1994 . In: Journal for Germanistic Linguistics 23/1995, pp. 76–86, here: p. 85.
  32. ↑ Andreas Kemper : "... overcome the neurotic phase in which we have been for seventy years". The difference between conservatism and fascism using the example of the “historical mission” Björn Höckes (AfD) . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Thuringia, Jena, May 2015, p. 16.
  33. ↑ Eckhard Jesse : The extreme right on the rise? - Right-wing extremism and the Republican Party . In: Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie , 2nd year (1990), Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-02255-6 , pp. 241–266, here: p. 261 .
  34. ↑ Irmgard Pinn : collective discussions: right-wing extremism . In: Soziologische Revue Jg. 19 (1996), pp. 181–192, here: p. 184.
  35. ↑ Brigitta Huhnke : The plagiarism (review). In: Die Zeit , No. 10, March 3, 2010.
  36. ↑ Dirk Burmester, review of: Helmut Kellershohn (ed.): The "German voice" of the "Junge Freiheit" Hamburg / Münster: 2013, in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, http://pw-portal.de/rezension/31641- the-german-voice-of-the-boys-freedom_37694 , published on March 28, 2013.
  37. ↑ Clemens Reichhold: Review of: Wolfgang Kastrup / Helmut Kellershohn (Ed.): Capitalism and / or Democracy? Münster: 2014 , in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, published on March 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kellershohn, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and right-wing extremism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1949