Alemannic discourse

The term Alemannendiskurs is occasionally used in folklore to denote attempts to create or strengthen regional awareness in the former Baden parts of Baden-Württemberg .

Historical origins of the formulation of such an awareness and the demarcation from Württemberg can be found mainly in Breisgau with Johann Peter Hebel , who established this tribal discourse together with the Breisgau discourse.

The Alemannic discourse did two things: it acted as an ideological bracket for the newly created Grand Duchy of Baden (as a distinction to the “Württemberg” Swabian concept), and it created Alemannia for the greater supranational region (Alsace, German-speaking Switzerland, Vorarlberg, Bavarian Swabia, Württemberg and Baden) common historically based self-image. The fascination of the new Alemannic tribal discourse resulted from the connection between antiquity, history, literature and language.

In the time of National Socialism 1933–1945, the Alemannic discourse served primarily to justify German claims to Alsace , partly to Burgundy , with plans to incorporate them into Greater Germany after a war was won; the German Switzerland was happy to received in the relevant literature, even if for the moment not yet the region proclaimed the political conquest of the kingdom.

See also

• Alemannic Institute Freiburg, especially Friedrich Metz . Until 1945, the institute was part of the intelligence network of the Reich Security Main Office of the SS, RSHA, against Switzerland and Vorarlberg as an espionage organization .
• Research on the West , the National Socialists' claim to permanent control of all regions west of the Reich in which dialects of the Germanic languages were currently or allegedly spoken in the past or may have been spoken.

literature

• Klaus Graf : Regional identity in the southern Baden area around 1800. In: Achim Aurnhammer (Hrsg.): Between Josephinism and early liberalism. Literary life in southern Baden around 1800. Rombach, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-7930-9284-4 , pp. 35–47. ( Online , PDF, 2,330 kB)
• Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (ed.): Region and identification. Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-933240-02-6 .
• Johann Peter Hebel: The Calendar Stories. All the stories from the Rhineland family friend. Edited by Hannelore Schlaffer , Harald Zils. Hanser, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-446-19752-4 .
• Klaus Schreiner : Alemannic-Swabian tribal history as a factor in regional tradition formation. In: Pankraz Fried, Wolf-Dieter Sick (ed.): The historical landscape between Lech and Vosges. Augsburg 1988, ISBN 3-922518-17-6 .
• Franz Kerber : Alemannic country. A book of folk and mission. Yearbook of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau , 1.-1937.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Graf: Regional identity in the southern Baden region around 1800. Short version of the Freiburg document server (FreiDok), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 2002; published on June 12, 2008.
2. ↑ or only through marginal figures at the time, see Armin Mohler and the Swiss National Socialists in general
3. ^ Nazi mayor of the city of Freiburg
4. ↑ therein: Martin Heidegger , ways for pronunciation.