Bernhard Koerner

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Bernhard Koerner (1875–1952)

Bernhard Koerner (* 23. July 1875 in Berlin , † 1. October 1952 in Wiedensahl ) was a German jurist , genealogist and nationalist - anti-Semitic politicians. He was around 50 years editor of the Starke Verlag published Genealogical Handbook commoner families . His father was the landscape and marine painter Ernst Koerner .

Life

Koerner's early interest was genealogy . After studying law and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. jur. he occupied himself with genealogical studies before joining the royal Prussian heraldry in 1903 . As early as 1896 he joined the editorial committee of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families founded in 1889 and became its editor in 1898 . He held this office continuously until the end of the Second World War . In the foreword of the Genealogical Handbook of 1901 , he published a long list of “ennobled Jewish families”, which he justified with the need to distinguish between “Jewish nobility” and “Aryan descent” as a precaution. It was also he who introduced the principle that only " Aryans " were included in the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families .

From 1903 to 1918 he worked for the royal Prussian heraldry. In 1904 he was the founder of the Berlin branch of the family history association " Roland " in Dresden . Since this association was not willing to make an " Aryan blood confession " a prerequisite for membership, Koerner split off the genealogical community " Deutscher Roland " as the "Association for German- Völkisch Kinskunde zu Berlin" from the Dresden association in 1913 . In 1905 Koerner was involved when Alfred Ploetz founded the " Society for Racial Hygiene " in Berlin .

Koerner took an active part in the First World War , but was released from the fighting force in 1918 due to illness . As early as Christmas 1918, he described the end of the First World War as the "end of princes and the beginning of Jewish rule". As early as 1919 he demanded that "only mentally and physically well-mannered people should have the right to procreate". In the same year he was chosen by the Teutonic Order as "clan guardian".

With the publication of the 32nd volume of the German Gender Book in 1920, Koerner triggered a bitter polemic that lasted several years among German genealogists. The book was published with two swastikas in the half-title , and in the foreword Koerner wrote: “Among the men who, with a clear understanding of the things to come, answered certain questions years ago, the late founder and leader of the German Confederation Friedrich Lange belongs . ... As long as Jewish rulers ... were able to tyrannize Germany, the White Race was out of the question. Many of them sympathize with the Jewish mass butchers in Russia ... We got authorities through authorities ... but there is no Reich clan office . ... Aryans of all countries unite! "

At the end of 1920 he became chairman of the German Volkischer Arbeitsring Berlin founded by Reinhold Wulle , Richard Kunze and Arnold Ruge , a company that competed with the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In this function Koerner agitated together with the general manager Major a. D. Voigt against Gertzlaff von Hertzberg and Alfred Roth , and claimed that the Schutz- und Trutzbund was influenced by Masons - Jesuits .

From 1920 to 1925 Koerner was employed in the Prussian Ministry of Justice and then until 1933 for the Upper President of the Province of Brandenburg . In December 1924 he was elected as a member of the Prussian Landtag for the German National Freedom Party, of which he was a member until 1928. He experienced the National Socialist takeover in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior , where he worked until 1937. On May 1, 1933, he was accepted into the NSDAP . From 1937 he was in the Presidential Chancellery of the Fuehrer and Chancellor for the awarding of titles and medals in charge.

After the Second World War , in the course of which his house in Berlin was destroyed, after years of wandering he found refuge in Wiedensahl , a place in the Schaumburger Land , his last home.

Since 1893 he was a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg .

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  1. ↑ Historical or national genealogy? Family history research or clan research? . In: Volkmar Weiss: Prehistory and consequences of the Aryan ancestral pass: On the history of genealogy in the 20th century. Arnshaugk, Neustadt an der Orla 2013, ISBN 978-3-944064-11-6 , pp. 48–65.
  2. ↑ Alexandra Gerstner: German Roland. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Vol. 5: Organizations, institutions, movements. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24078-2 , pp. 181-182.
  3. ^ Gregor Hufenreuter: Germanic Order. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Vol. 5: Organizations, institutions, movements. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24078-2 , pp. 280-282.
  4. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus. The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923. Leibniz, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-87473-000-X , pp. 258f.
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64 , 874
personal data
SURNAME Koerner, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Reich Presidential Councilor and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1952
Place of death Wiedensahl near Stadthagen