Arno Deutelmoser

Arno Deutelmoser (* 1907 , † February 1983 in Hamburg ) was a from the youth movement originating national revolutionary activist in the final phase of the Weimar Republic , the Resistance against the Nazis and leading member of the Independent Free Church of Friedrich Hielscher .

biography

Arno Deutelmoser grew up in the Sudetenland and studied law, philosophy and history in Göttingen from 1927 . There he became a member of the youth movement and national revolutionary organization founded by Werner Lass in the same year, the "Freischar Schill". In 1931 he joined the "Bund der Eidgenossen", the senior organization of the "Freischar Schill". Among other things, he worked as an author on the magazine Der Umsturz - the fight for the German socialist revolution, published by Werner Lass .

The anti- Nazi policy of the "Confederates", whose particularly radical group in Göttingen at times even approximated the KPD , led to the arrest and temporary imprisonment of Deutelmoser in March 1933. In the summer of the same year he joined the resistance group of the publicist and religious philosopher Friedrich Hielscher and his newly founded “Independent Free Church”, which is closely linked to the resistance group. Several other members of the now banned "Confederates" followed this step.

Deutelmoser was able to continue his studies in Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1937 with a work on the history of religion on the subject of Luther, State and Faith , which was published by Eugen-Diederichs-Verlag. In it he took up numerous positions that his mentor Friedrich Hielscher had already represented in his work "Das Reich", which appeared in 1931 and has since been banned by the Nazi regime. In 1940 Deutelmoser was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was stationed there, mainly in Norway, on behalf of his employers a. a. engaged in the writing of writings on the British-Scandinavian relationship.

After the end of the war, Deutelmoser held teaching and managerial positions at a folk high school in Lower Saxony for many years . Within the Independent Free Church, to which he belonged until his death in 1983, he was regarded as the most important personality after Friedrich Hielscher and as Hielscher's "dogmatic conscience".

Works

• Luther, State and Faith . Jena (Eugen-Diederichs-Verlag) 1937
• Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Germany . Leipzig / Berlin 1938
• England versus Scandinavia. A history of British incursions against the Nordic countries . Berlin 1940
• England in the Scandinavian judgment . Berlin 1940

literature

• Peter Bahn: The Hielscher legend. A panentheistic "church" foundation of the 20th century and its misinterpretations. In: Gnostika, Heft 19 (2001), pp. 63–76
• Peter Bahn: Ernst Jünger and Friedrich Hielscher: a friendship at a distance . In: Les Carnets Ernst Jünger, No. 6 (2001), pp. 127–145
• Louis Dupeux: “National Bolshevism” in Germany 1919–1933. Communist strategy and conservative dynamics. Munich 1985
• Friedrich Hielscher : Fifty years among Germans . Hamburg 1954
• Rolf Kluth : The Hielscher resistance group . In: pulse. Documentation of the youth movement. No. 7 (December 1980), pp. 22-27
• Karl Otto Paetel : Temptation or Chance? On the history of German national Bolshevism. Goettingen 1965
• Ina Schmidt : The Lord of Fire. Friedrich Hielscher and his circle between paganism, new nationalism and resistance against National Socialism. SH-Verlag , Cologne 2004
• Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf : National Bolshevism in Germany 1918–1933. Frankfurt 1972