Albrecht Wirth

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Albrecht Wirth (born March 8, 1866 in Frankfurt (Main) ; † June 26, 1936 in Tittmoning / Upper Bavaria ) was a German historian, linguist, world traveler and ethnic racist .

Life

As the son of the private scholar and patent attorney Franz Ulpian, he studied history in Prague, Zurich, Vienna, Rome, Paris, Halle (Saale), Jena, Tübingen, Zurich and Bonn. After graduating, he received his doctorate .

In the following years he made many trips for study purposes. The first took him to South Africa in 1892, then continued to visit Kilimanjaro in 1893 . He then went on a trip to the University of Chicago , where he was a visiting lecturer in history. From there he traveled to Japan via Mexico. He used a stay in Manchuria and Korea to report on the war going on there.

Another trip takes him to Formosa , where he spent several months among the local population. He ended this first world tour with a duration of four years by returning to Germany after crossing Siberia .

After Cuba , he came then, as there raged a war. As a correspondent he reported on the " Battle of Santiago ".

Then he embarked on a second trip around the world, which took him via the Middle East to India and again to South Africa. The Boer War had just broken out there in 1899 .

A trip across the Asian continent through Turkestan and Mongolia took him to China , where he witnessed the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 . He then returned to Frankfurt / Main and married Frida in 1902, the daughter of a lieutenant colonel and owner of a manor called Freia von Schneider- Egestorf .

From 1903 to 1918, after completing his habilitation , he taught at the Technical University of Munich as a private lecturer in colonial and world history. There he also headed the Munich Oriental Society as General Secretary.

Further trips for research purposes took him to the Caucasus, Morocco and Albania. During the First World War he worked again as a war correspondent . In 1919 he moved to Tittmoning. There he had an acquaintance with the writer Dietrich Eckart . The common views of a völkisch view led Wirth to write articles for Eckart's magazine Auf gut deutsch - weekly for order and law , which published anti-Semitic views. It was through this acquaintance that Wirth also met Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess in 1920 .

Wirth was also a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and an employee of the Völkischer Beobachter .

After the end of the Second World War, his writings became Quer durch die Gegenwart ( Deutscher Volksverlag , Munich 1922) and Völkische Weltgeschichte. 1879-1933 ( Westermann , Braunschweig 1934) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone . In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by Wirth's World History of the Germans (Siegismund, Berlin 1922) and East Asia (Manz, Regensburg 1934).

The American racist Alfred Paul Schultz thanked Wirth for his work "Race or Bastard" from 1908, along with thanks to Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Fonts (selection)

  • Over the millennia. A world history in words and pictures as publisher, Stuttgart 1890
  • From Oriental Chronicles , 1894
  • History of South Africa , 1897
  • History of Siberia and Manchuria , 1898
  • History of Formosa , 1898
  • The growth of the United States of America and its foreign policy , Bonn 1899
  • Outline of the history of Africa , 1900
  • Outline of world history , 1900
  • East Asia in World History , 1900
  • The Development of Asia from Ancient Times to the Present , 1901
  • Ethnicity and world power in history , Munich 1901
  • The development of Russia , Berlin 1901
  • From overseas and Europe , Berlin 1902
  • Contemporary world history , Berlin 1904
  • History of Asia and Eastern Europe , Halle 1905
  • The Yellow and Slavic Peril , 1905
  • The world traffic , Frankfurt a. M. 1906
  • Highlights on world politics , 1908
  • Germanness and Turkey , 1911
  • The decision about Morocco , Stuttgart 1911
  • Men, peoples and times - a world history in one gang , Hamburg 1911
  • Foreign policy , 1912
  • History of the Turks , Stuttgart 1912
  • Turkey, Austria, Germany , Stuttgart 1912
  • Men, peoples, times , Berlin 1912
  • Course of world history , Gotha 1913
  • The Balkans. His countries and peoples in history, culture, politics, economics and world traffic , Stuttgart 1914
  • Race and People , Halle 1914
  • Middle East and Egypt. In historical and political, cultural and economic terms , Stuttgart 1916
  • History of the German People for the German People , Stuttgart 1916
  • Aryan and Anarian research , 1917 (in the yearbook of the Munich Oriental Society 1915/16)
  • Brief world history , Hamburg 1917
  • Development of the Germans , Halle 1918
  • What colonies must Germany have ?: Germany and the Orient , Frankfurt 1918, see also document 1.pdf (10.843 KB): What colonies must Germany have? : Germany and the Orient / by Albrecht Wirth. Central Africa as a German colony / by Emil Zimmermann
  • The history of the world war. Military, political and economic , 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1919
  • Up and Down of the Peoples , 1919
  • Deutschtum der Erde , 1920
  • History of the Russian Empire from 600 BC Until 1920 AD , Hamburg 1920
  • Turning of the world , 1922
  • German adventurer , 1922
  • National Revolutions , Munich 1925
  • German breakdowns and overcoming them , 1930
  • Völkische Weltgeschichte (1879-1933) , Braunschweig 1934

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 302. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-w.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-w.html
  4. ^ Race or Mongrel. A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth ... online
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, linguist and ethnic racist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Main)
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1936
Place of death Tittmoning