General German Writing Association

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The General German Writing Association was founded in 1890 by Adolf Reinecke as part of the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute as a counter- association to the Association for Altschrift . The association advocated the keeping of the German language and script and in particular the strengthening of the Gothic script and strongly opposed the use of the Antiqua script. The organ of publication of the association was Heimdall magazine . Journal for pure Germanness and all-Germanness .

Club history

Reinecke was not only the founder of the General German Writing Association, its deputy chairman and editor of the Heimdall organ . He was also the founder and chairman of the Berlin branch of the General German Language Association . In the context of the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute, there were disputes between the Berlin branch and the general association, which Reinecke repeatedly attacked sharply because the entire association did not want to advocate the use of Gothic script, but rather the discussion about the German script in its statutes explicitly excluded as a club goal. At the same time, the entire association criticized the name of Reinecke's small and rather insignificant Allgemeine Deutsche Schriftverein, which was repeatedly confused with the large and influential Allgemeine Deutsche Sprachverein in press reports on the antiqua-Fraktur dispute. All of this ultimately led to the compulsory exclusion of the Berlin branch from the overall association. Thereupon Reinecke founded the Pan-German Language and Writing Association in 1898 , in which both the Berlin Language Association he founded and his General German Writing Association merged.

Political orientation

The association was a member of the right-wing umbrella organization of the United Patriotic Associations of Germany . In addition, the association was anti - Semitic .

See also

Scientific literature

  • Willi Buch [pseudonym for: Wilhelm Buchow]: 50 years of the anti-Semitic movement. Contributions to their history . Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich 1937.
  • Dieter Fricke: The bourgeois parties in Germany. Handbook of the history of the bourgeois parties and other bourgeois interest organizations from Vormärz to 1945 . Volume 2, fraction Augsburger Hof - Center. DEB Verlag The European Book, Berlin 1974.
  • Silvia Hartmann: Fraktur or Antiqua. The written dispute from 1881 to 1941 (= theory and communication of language, 28). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998.
  • Johannes Müller: The scientific associations and societies in Germany in the nineteenth century. Bibliography of their publications . Second volume (continued until 1914), first half: Aachen - Frankfurt a. M. Behrend & Co, Berlin 1917.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Müller: The scientific associations and societies in Germany in the nineteenth century. Bibliography of their publications . Second volume (continued until 1914), first half: Aachen - Frankfurt a. M. Behrend & Co., Berlin 1917, p. 362.
  2. ^ Silvia Hartmann: Fraktur or Antiqua. The written dispute from 1881 to 1941 (= theory and communication of language, 28). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998, Chapter 2.2.2.2 The General German Writing Association.
  3. ^ Dieter Fricke: The bourgeois parties in Germany. Handbook of the history of the bourgeois parties and other bourgeois interest organizations from Vormärz to 1945 . Volume 2, fraction Augsburger Hof - Center. DEB Verlag Das Europäische Buch, Berlin 1974, p. 743.
  4. ^ Willi Buch [pseudonym for: Wilhelm Buchow]: 50 years of the anti-Semitic movement. Contributions to their history . Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich 1937, p. 47.