Fraternity leaves

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Fraternity leaves
Title page of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter (1898/99)
First edition 1887
Frequency of publication quarterly
Editor-in-chief Dirk Taphorn
editor German fraternity , association of the associations of old fraternity members
Web link www.burschenschaftliche-blaetter.de
ISSN 0341-5252

The fraternity Autumnal leaves (BBI) - Subtitle: Magazine for the German fraternity - are founded in 1887, by the German fraternity issued (DB) magazine . They appear four times a year and, in addition to current reports from the association, each focus on a specific political, historical or social focus. They are counted on the spectrum of the political right .

history

The German Imperium

The Burschenschaftlichen Blätter was founded in 1887 by Gustav Heinrich Schneider ( Burschenschaft Germania Jena ) under the name Zeitschrift for the German fraternity . The organ of the association was not only designed to issue association news, but also served to position the association in social and political issues.

In the 1890s, there was competition between the Association of German Students' Associations (Kyffhäuser Association) and the DB: After the Kyffhäuser Association had also positioned itself in its association journal German-national and anti-Semitic, the editors of the BBl presented a new master plan for treatment not only historical and internal, but also current political and above all national issues. This was intended to combat "indifference" on the part of DB members to such questions. The plan defined the following topics and tasks as the orientation of the BBl:

"Fraternity members means to be a fighter, we would like this winged word from now on in the 'B.Bl.' to know better to be a fighter for German essence, German honor, German fatherland! [...] Among other things, it is to be investigated what share the nationally-minded German fraternity has to take in the fight against the patriotic social democracy . Efforts should also be combated which are directed against its unity and security within the Reich. [...] The status of the so-called German movement within the Reich should be reported in more detail. a. the so-called. German Sociale question, the fight against all strangeness in the German people beings, the fight against foreign influencing German art and literature, cleaning and keeping clean of the German language and writing [...] Even the hitherto in, B.Bl. ' Colonial undertakings in the empire that have almost not been taken into account should be devoted to articles by an expert pen with regard to their status and their future. "

- Fraternity leaves, 1893

The main idea should be the “preservation of Germanism ”, which is endangered, for example, by “increasingly powerful slavery ”. This plan was discussed in the BBl. A detailed criticism of the SPD fraternity member Eduard Dietz , who called for a rational discussion of the economic theories of social democracy, met with no approval, only violent rejection, which was based on the anti-Semitic equation of social democracy, "patriotism" and Judaism.

Before the First World War , anti-Semitic articles and anti-Czech articles and writings against internationalism and Marxism were published. That is why the historian Peter Pulzer counts the BBl among the “typically nationalistic newspapers” of the early 20th century.

Weimar Republic and the Nazi era

In the Weimar Republic , the editorial team “had a radical agitation function, stoked up the basic anti-Semitic mood and stifled discussions” insofar as they could have brought about a fundamental dispute about the anti-Semitic norms of the association: for example, by publishing criticism of the anti-Semitic satisfaction regulation of Jews were " unworthy of satisfaction ", "always refused" and only allowed contributions on the subject of anti-Semitism "if they ... demanded an expansion of anti-Jewish practices".

Part of the profile of the BBl was the “commitment to military strength”. This includes the support for the "associations ... that serve this defensive capacity with a larger entourage than our own association, i.e. steel helmets, National Socialists, Oberland etc." (1929) "The fraternities, national fascist student organizations", so in the BBl 1929, had " to maintain and cultivate the connection between the national fascist students on the one hand and the Reichswehr and the fascist associations on the other. "

Since the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists on January 30, 1933, there was “nothing more to be read about criticism. The association switched itself in the same direction. "The DB management welcomed the beginning" fight against Judaism "in the BBl as follows:

“What we have longed for and strived for for years and what we have worked for year in and year out in the spirit of the fraternity of 1817 has become a fact. […] The German Burschenschaft has long been hostile to its sharp decisions on the Jewish question […] Now it has the satisfaction that there is a German government that has taken up the fight against Judaism across the board "

- Burschenschaftliche Blätter, March 1933 edition

From 1933 the editors changed frequently, and in 1937 the magazine finally ceased to appear.

Since 1945

After the Second World War , the BBl born in 1932/33 in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) were included in the list of literature to be segregated as contaminated by Nazi .

They were also initially banned in West Germany , but were re-established together with the DB after the Allies' ban on associations was lifted in 1950. From then on, according to the student historian Peter Kaupp , the DB also dealt with its own history in the BBl.

The theorist of the French Nouvelle Droite Alain de Benoist was a guest author in the BBl. The weekly magazine Junge Freiheit , which is regarded as the organ of the New Right , advertised among other things in 1999 in the BBl for subscribers. It assigns the BBl as a competitor to its own camp. This is why the social scientist Thomas Pfeiffer sees the content of the BBl as being interwoven with publications by the New Right.

Outside the DB, the BBl are mostly mentioned in connection with conflicts in the DB and criticism of the DB. Der Spiegel, for example, reported in 1970 on the dispute about the abolition of compulsory censorship, which was also carried out in the association's magazine . This magazine criticized right-wing extremist tendencies in the DB in 1996 and again in 2011 with reference to articles in the BBl. DGB - and SPD-affiliated authors criticized an interview of the BBl with the NPD member and fraternity member Arne Schimmer from December 2010 as opening and advertising of the DB for positions of the extreme right NPD . According to a report by the weekly newspaper Die Zeit from October 2011, the BBl did not publish a letter to the editor from some old men of the DB calling for the DB to turn away from the “ people-based concept of fatherland ” and criticizing the BBl's editorial line.

The controversial editor Norbert Weidner was voted out of office prematurely at the extraordinary Burschentag 2012 in Stuttgart. At the previous Burschentag, an early vote failed.

Dietrich Heither classifies the DB as “right on the right” because of the attitude of some of the BBl editors and statements from their articles.

According to the publisher, the printed edition is 6,000 copies (as of May 2015).

Editor

Burschenschaftliche Blätter - 1st year No. 1 - 1887, title

The BBl's editor-in- chief, known as the “editor”, is elected every three years at the DB Burschentag. The previous editors were:

literature

  • Heike Ströle-Bühler : Student Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1991, ISBN 3-631-43964-4
  • Ernst Wilhelm Wreden, Walter Egeler: Burschenschaftliche Blätter. In: Deutsche Burschenschaft (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German Burschenschaft. BurschenDruck publishing house, 2005, ISBN 3-00-016245-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Hunkel: Eduard Dietz (1866-1940) - judge, lawyer and constitutional creator. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3631585233 , p. 26  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.books.google.de  
  2. ^ OV, To our readers. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter. 7th vol. (1893), issue 12, pp. 312-317, here p. 314f. Quoted from: Dietrich Heither: Allied men. The German Burschenschaft - Weltanschauung, Politics and Customs. Cologne 2000, p. 84f.
  3. ^ Andreas Hunkel: Eduard Dietz (1866-1940) - judge, lawyer and constitutional creator. Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 27  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.books.google.de  
  4. ^ Peter GJ Pulzer: The emergence of political anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria from 1867 to 1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 251
  5. ↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler : Student anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 174.
  6. ↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler: Student anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. 1991, p. 168.
  7. ↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler: Student anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. 1991, p. 136.
  8. ↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler: Student anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. 1991, p. 174.
  9. ↑ B.Bl. 6/1933, p. 130 + p. 162; quoted from: Heike Ströle-Bühler: Student anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. 1991, p. 112.
  10. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Wreden, Walter Egeler: Burschenschaftliche Blätter. In: Deutsche Burschenschaft (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German Burschenschaft. BurschenDruck Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-00-016245-3 , p. 360.
  11. ^ List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second addendum as of September 1, 1948. Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1948, entry 9152.
  12. ^ Peter Kaupp: Burschenschaft and anti-Semitism. (PDF; 126 kB; p. 260)
  13. ^ Alain de Benoist: On globalization. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter. Edition 1/2009.
  14. ↑ Otto Krenauer: Korporationsstudentische Periodika: "Burschenschaftliche Blätter" in a new guise. Competition lifts business , in: Junge Freiheit, January 2, 2009.
  15. ↑ Thomas Pfeiffer: The new right: a threat to democracy? VS Verlag, 2004, p. 139.
  16. ↑ Der Spiegel, January 12, 1970: Students / fraternity members: Ball on the leg
  17. ↑ Jürgen Bischoff (Der Spiegel, November 1, 1996): Blood, Honor, Beer and Fatherland. ; Florian Diekmann (Der Spiegel, July 5, 2011): Internal papers reveal right-wing extremism among fraternities
  18. ^ NRW right outer (Ed .: DGB-NRW and others), December 25, 2010: Burschenschafts-Blatt opens up to NPD positions and right-wing conspiracy theories ; Robert Scholz: "The Third Reich massively missed the idea of ​​the state" - Fraternity papers interview Arne Schimmer (NPD). In: Endstation Rechts, January 13, 2010.
  19. ↑ Jan Martin Wiarda (Die Zeit, October 19, 2011): Fraternities: Old men, new fronts. Next act in the argument about how right fraternities want to be
  20. ↑ DB press release of November 24, 2012 ( Memento of the original of September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burschenschaft.de
  21. ^ Tilman Steffen (Die Zeit, June 3, 2012): The umbrella association of fraternities is threatened with disintegration. - Liberal opponents of extremism failed in their attempt to break the influence of right-wing extremists in the German fraternity.
  22. ↑ Dietrich Heither : Stramm right: Die Deutsche Burschenschaft , sheets for German and international politics No. 10, October 2011.
  23. ^ Website of the Burschenschaftlichen Blätter
  24. ^ Harald Lönnecker : Publications of the archive of the German Burschenschaft. New series, issue 9. (PDF; 166 kB), Koblenz 2006, p. 34.
  25. ↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler names June 1933 for the transition of the editorial to Hederich: Heike Ströle-Bühler: Student antisemitism in the Weimar Republic: an analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933. Peter Lang, 1991. P. 11. The Biographical Lexicon the DB, on the other hand, names Hederich's term of office from 1932 to 1933: Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Fratschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 270–271, here: p. 271. A list of editors according to the DB 9, L, in the Federal Archives / Archives of the Society for Fraternity History Research lists Hederich and his successor does not appear. Hederich is not mentioned in the call numbers of the entire collection: Harald Lönnecker: Publications of the Archives of the German Burschenschaft. New series, issue 9. (PDF; 166 kB), Koblenz 2006. p. 34.
  26. ↑ Bernhard Schroeter (Ed.): For fraternity and fatherland: Festschrift for the fraternity and student historian Prof. (FH) Dr. Peter Kaupp , 2006. p. 8.
  27. ↑ Association for German Student History e. V .: News Archive 2002