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Volk im Werden was a magazine founded by the National Socialist educationalist Ernst Krieck , which appeared from 1933 to November 1943 .

history

Ernst Krieck's national educational plans were based on the assumption that the Germans were a “people in the making” and that his youth were “an expression of the forces pushing forward and shaping the future”. In 1932, Krieck's programmatic publication “Volk im Werden” appeared in which, referring to the title he had chosen, he remarked:

“ It is the question of German fate par excellence, whether this time the revolution will achieve its goal, fulfill its purpose or get stuck halfway as it did in the 16th century ... [and therefore] cohesion and inner balance on the basis of social justice, birth from blood and soil - [can] help to exist as a living space that is decisive for the type, meaning, direction of life, attitude and worldview of all members. It arises from the collection of organic folklore . With this the 'Reich' finally receives its content and soul: the Third Reich is in the making. "

Krieck founded the journal of the same name in 1933 with the aim of working on the implementation of this scientific program. The subjects of "nationalistic education" and " National Socialism and University " were regularly found in each year. He also disseminated anti-Semitic ideas through his magazine .

Wilhelm Brachmann was editor of the magazine from the third issue in 1943 before it was finally discontinued at the end of 1943. Brachmann was an employee of Alfred Rosenberg and head of the main office "Protestantism and Religious Studies" in the office Rosenberg . In the summer of 1944, Martin Bormann and Alfred Rosenberg discussed the inadmissibility (Bormann) and the admissibility (Rosenberg) of Christian essays in the magazine published by Brachmann. Also in the summer of 1944, Ernst Krieck complained to Reich Press Chief Otto Dietrich about Brachmann as the editor of the magazine "Volk im Werden" through a friend in Bormann's party office , who ordered the issues and returned them without comment.

The publication had the additions in the subtitle, in the order: "Two-month publication"; "Journal for Cultural Policy "; "Journal for the Renewal of Science"; "Journal for the history of ideas and faith" (from Brachmann as editor).

Place and publisher: Leipzig : Armanen. Hamburg : Hanseatic publishing house.

concept

The magazine was largely used for internal National Socialist discussion, although, according to Karl Dietrich Bracher, "respected non-National Socialist authors with corresponding, admittedly idiosyncratic articles, alongside fanatical anti-Semites like Johann von Leers " had their say.

A year volume recorded 40–55 authors, such as convinced National Socialists such as Heidelberg Professor Reinhard Höhn , Klaus Schicken from the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question , Hans Joachim Beyer , Rudolf Benze , Günther Franz , Walter Mönch , Fritz Scheid and Benno von Wiese . There was also a contribution by the literary historian Karl Viëtor , who was a friend of Krieck and who soon emigrated to the United States with his Jewish wife. Other well-known names among the authors were Viktor von Weizsäcker and Werner Jaeger .

Krieck, who himself wrote several essays for each volume, also relied on a small but permanent staff of younger scientists from his Heidelberg circle, such as the lecturer Wilhelm Classen, who regularly provided articles on cultural policy, Gerhard Schröder or Andreas Hohlfeld . Quite a number of these young scientists, who were heavily involved in the National Socialist movement, worked for the security service at the same time . In the years 1937 and 1938, under the editorship of Franz Six, the collaboration of SD people increased. Among the authors are Wilhelm Spengler , Walter von Kielpinski and Herbert Hagen . "One can assume that during this time almost half of the contributions come from members of the Main Security Office ".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Graf, The Future of the Weimar Republic: Crises and Future Appropriations in Germany 1918-1933 , Oldenbourg Verlag 2008, p. 241.
  2. ^ A b Uwe Hoßfeld : History of biological anthropology in Germany. From the beginning until the post-war period. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 334.
  3. ↑ Uwe Hoßfeld: History of biological anthropology in Germany. From the beginning until the post-war period. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 335.
  4. ↑ Ralf Klausnitzer, Blaue Blume unterm Hakenkreuz .: The reception of German literary romanticism in the Third Reich , F. Schöningh 1999, p. 411.
  5. ↑ Uwe Puschner , Clemens Vollnhals , The Völkisch-Religious Movement in National Socialism: A History of Relationships and Conflicts , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012, p. 352.
  6. ^ Helmut Heiber : files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Regesten Vol. 1 + 2, 1983; Regest 28062 on p. 1026.
  7. ^ Helmut Heiber : files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Regesten Vol. 1 + 2, 1983; Regest 28126 on p. 1033.
  8. ↑ Thomas Dietzel and Hans-Otto Hügel: German literary magazines 1880-1945. A repertory. Vol. 3. Munich 1988, p. 1223.
  9. ↑ a b Wolfgang Rösler, "Werner Jaeger and National Socialism", in: Colin G. King, Roberto Lo Presti, Werner Jaeger - Wissenschaft, Bildung, Politik, Walter de Gruyter 2017, p. 63.
  10. ^ Karl Dietrich Bracher / Wolfgang Sauer / Gerhard Schulz : The National Socialist seizure of power. Studies on the establishment of the totalitarian system of rule in Germany 1933/34, vol. I: Karl Dietrich Bracher: stages of the seizure of power, Cologne / Opladen 1974, p. 268.
  11. ↑ a b Ingrid Voss: “From the 'nonsensical term Europe' to the 'new Europe'. The idea of ​​Europe in the National Socialist magazine Volk im Werden ” , in: Michel Grunewald / Hans Manfred Bock (eds.): The European discourse in German magazines (1933–1939), Bern: Lang 1999, p. 373f.