Árpád of Nahodyl

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Árpád von Nahodyl Neményi (born February 8, 1958 in Cologne ) is a German author . His publications deal with topics such as Germanic mythology , esotericism , divination and nobility . Books on neo-paganism appeared under von Nahodyl's pseudonym Géza von Neményi . In 1991, von Nahodyl founded the Germanic Faith Community , whose leader and religious head he is under the self-designation Allsherjagode .

As an AfD local politician, he has been the city ​​councilor of Bad Belzig since 2019 .

Life

Nahodyl, who grew up in Berlin , has dealt with esotericism and magic since his youth . Von Nahodyl graduated from the University of the Arts in Berlin with a degree in visual communication .

Von Nahodyl calls himself a baron with reference to his noble roots , his ancestors come from Moravia . He is married and has lived in Bad Belzig in Brandenburg since 1999 .

Neo-paganism

According to his own account, the Catholic educated von Nahodyl came to the Germanic neo-paganism in 1982 by studying the books of the rune-neoteric Karl Spiesberger and the mythologist Johann Wilhelm Ernst Wägner .

Marks of the Germanic Faith Community with sun cross and Thor's hammer

In 1985, von Nahodyl founded the Heidnische Gemeinschaft eV association. After leaving, the Germanic Faith Community eV (GGG) was founded in 1991 , which was the successor to the Germanic Faith Community founded by the poet and painter Ludwig Fahrenkrog and existed until 1964 sees.

In June 2003, von Nahodyl, as head of the GGG, published a declaration on the “task and purpose of the institution Allsherjargode ” and raised a claim to leadership within “traditional Germanic paganism in Germany”. This "met with bitter resistance within the neo-Pagan scene and resulted in fierce controversies, which ... were mainly carried out on the Internet", according to the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions .

Publications

Nahodyl Neményi represents the Slavic legend in his publications and contributions on the Internet . He assumes that the Slavs are not an ethnic group of their own, but rather East Germanic peoples , whose gods he therefore also regards as Germanic. The traditional names are not authentic, but substitute names used by Christians, since there was fear of naming the correct names of the deities seen as demons.

From a scientific point of view - for example in German Medieval Studies , Nordic Studies or Slavonic Studies - Nahodyl's publications are of no importance.

Political activities

According to his own admission, von Nahodyl has been active in regional politics since his student days.

In the mid-1980s, von Nahodyl, as a board member of the Berlin State Association of the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection , the Berlin Association of the Greens , applied for a party expulsion procedure following allegations of right-wing extremism against various party members . Von Nahodyl denied any association in this regard. After a time with the SPD , von Nahodyl has been active with the AfD since 2013 . He ran for this in 2014 both in the district election of Potsdam-Mittelmark and for the city ​​council in Bad Belzig . According to his own statement, however, he is not a friend of the "usual brawls in politics" and has therefore now ended his activities in this area. In 2019 he ran again for the AfD in the election for the city council of Bad Belzig and was elected with the strongest individual result (987 votes).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ s. Press release of the umbrella organization for traditional natural religion, 2003 as well as Matthias Pöhlmann: Dispute about “Heiden-Pope” , Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, 2003; the designation is based on designations of the Icelandic godhood .
  2. ^ Places of worship in Fläming , Blickpunkt Brandenburg, December 21, 2015
  3. ↑ AfD nominates two candidates for local election Märkische Allgemeine, March 22, 2019
  4. ↑ Ulrich Andreas Vienna: Interview with Géza von Neményi, the Alsher jargode (tribal priest) of the Germanic faith community . In: Materialdienst 4/1997, Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, p. 114ff. Available online at ezw-berlin.de , accessed on October 31, 2016. PDF (10.98MB).
  5. ^ Matthias Pöhlmann : Dispute about "Heiden-Pope" . In: Materialdienst 11/2003, Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, accessed on October 31, 2016.
  6. ↑ Baron Árpád von Nahodyl Neményi: The Slav myth. How East Germans became a “Slavs” people with a foreign language and mythology , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, p. 92.
  7. ↑ author page ; accessed October 29, 2016.
  8. ↑ Der Spiegel: GRÜNE: Mythos der Edda , Edition 2/1985, January 7, 1985, accessed October 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ Results of the election for the Bad Belzig City Council on May 25, 2014 , City of Bad Belzig, accessed October 29, 2016.
  10. ↑ Public announcement of the final election results for the election of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district council on May 25, 2014 , Official Gazette of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, June 2014 (PDF 0.1MB), accessed October 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ Author Page Árpád of Nahodyl-Neményis , the "Welcome" retrieved September 1, 2018
  12. ↑ These are the new city councilors in Bad Belzig. In: Märkische Allgemeine , May 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Nahodyl, Árpád of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nahodyl Neményi, Árpád von; Neményi, Géza von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, founded the Germanic Faith Community in 1991
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne