Ludendorff's public observatory

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Ludendorffs Volkswarte is a weekly magazine founded in Munich in 1929 . It was subtitled "Victory of Truth: Destruction of Lies". When it was banned in 1933, the circulation was up to 130,000 copies.

The Deutsche Wochenschau , in which Erich Ludendorff wrote articles until 1929, can be regarded as the forerunner of the Ludendorffs Volkswarte . In 1929, this newspaper no longer met his expectations. Mathilde , Erich Ludendorff and other authors publicly criticized the Nazi regime in the Volkswarte . Caricatures by Hans-Günther Strick appeared as illustrations in which Hitler and other members of the party and state were despised. Examples of title topics are: “National Socialism as a Strangler”, “The will-o'-the-wisp Hitler” or “Before a new world war”. Ludendorff and his wife Mathilde Adolf Hitler also accused Hitler in the Volkswarte of doing too little to counter the alleged threat posed by world Jewry. This public criticism led to the newspaper being banned in 1933 after several threats. The publisher was the Volkswarte-Verlag Munich, which now shifted its focus to the magazine Am heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft .

From 1957 to 1961 the Hohe Warte publishing house , which belongs to the right-wing Association for German God Knowledge , published a weekly newspaper with the title Die Volkswarte as a successor newspaper . In 1961 this newspaper, with a circulation of over 100,000 copies, was banned as a right-wing extremist movement. This ban was lifted in 1976 for procedural reasons. The Federal Archives have documents on Franz Karg von Bebenburg (1910–2003) as a publisher, against the 1961–1962 trial and conviction for insulting the federal government and denigrating the federal flag in an article published in 1959 in the Volkswarte magazine he edited .

literature

  • Engelhardt, Eberhard: The legal dispute before the administrative courts about the prohibition order of the interior ministers of the German states against the Bund für Gottniswissen (Ludendorff), Verlag Hohe Warte in Pähl / Upper Bavaria. The 'Verlag Hohe Warte' and the Jewish question . Bebenburg, 1964.
  • Annika Spilker: Gender, religion and ethnic nationalism: the doctor and anti-Semite Mathilde Ludendorff (1877-1966) , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013 ISBN 978-359339987-4
  • Hans-Günter Strick: With a sharp pen and grim humor. Caricatures from Ludendorff's Volkswarte 1932/33 , Hohe Warte, Pähl 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Phillip Wegehaupt: Ludendorff, Erich. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Vol. 2: People . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44159-2 , p. 496. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  2. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber. “Freemasons and Jews, capitalists and communists as enemy images of right-wing extremist conspiracy theories from the German Empire to the present”. In: Uwe Backes (ed.). Right-wing extremist ideologies in the past and present . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2003. p. 220.
  3. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber. Right-wing extremism. A critical review after the reunification . Bonn: Bouvier, 1993. p. 113.
  4. ↑ Online , Ger. Federal Archives