Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing

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Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (born June 23, 1927 in Munich ; † January 25, 2009 there ; pseudonym: Ignaz Seestaler ) was a German writer and publisher . He was considered a leading representative of the New Right .

Life

Schrenck-Notzing was born in 1927 as the son of the racing stable owner and commander of the army racing team Gustav von Schrenck-Notzing (1896-1943) and his wife Marta Wedekind in Munich. He was the grandson of the parapsychologist Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing and the writer Ludwig Ganghofer, as well as the great-grandson of the industrialist Gustav von Siegle .

He married Regina von Metzsch -Reichenbach (* 23 August 1936; † 6 January 2012), who cooperated with her Munich Winter Academy with the Frankfurt Round Table , member of the board of the Association of Free Citizens and, until her death, member of the board of her husband's Founded in 2000, the foundation was conservative education and research .

The children Albert and Alexander (1989 co-founder of the Republican University Association , since 2012 on the board of the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research ) emerged from the marriage.

After graduating from high school , he studied history and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne . As a student, he was politically active and published in both Bayernkurier and the right-wing extremist magazine Nation Europa . In the late 1960s he was a permanent contributor to the student magazine Student . Schrenck-Notzing published under the pseudonym Ignaz Seetaler in the right-wing national newspaper . When the right-wing extremist ring of Freedom Students (rfs) was founded in the Federal Republic of Germany, Schrenck-Notzing gave the general political keynote address .

He was a major shareholder in WMF and BASF .

He became more widely known through the book Character Lingerie , published in 1965 , which problematized the effects of the democratic educational work of the four allies , called Reeducation , as part of American occupation policy. In 1970, with the support of Armin Mohler, he founded the bimonthly magazine Criticón , which for a long time was considered the most important theoretical organ of the New Right in the Federal Republic. In 1998, the Bonn business journalist Gunnar Sohn took over the editing of the organ and steered the paper on a more neoliberal course.

From 1973 he headed the Bavarian regional association of the Free German Association of Authors (FDA).

Schrenck-Notzing founded and headed the Conservative Education and Research Foundation (FKBF) since 2000. According to the self-portrayal, the main focus of this institute is the study of conservatism in all its forms. From 2004 to the beginning of 2008, the journal Our Agenda was published on behalf of the FKBF . The Chairman of the Board of Trustees has been Dieter Stein , founder and editor-in-chief of Junge Freiheit , since 2007 . After Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing's death, his wife Regina von Schrenck-Notzing took his place on the Board of Trustees. After her death in January 2012, her son Alexander von Schrenck-Notzing followed .

In addition to German conservatism, Schrenck-Notzing had also dealt intensively with British and US conservatism, and had given their representatives a large say in his publications. Although he was not regarded as uncritical towards the United States - not even towards the " Neocons " - he continued to pick up on impulses and developments from there. In December 2005 he was awarded the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize for Journalism from the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit .

Schrenck-Notzing dedicated his political career to rebuilding conservatism in the spirit of Armin Mohler. He always supported the forces in the CDU that he considered conservative . From the mid-1980s he campaigned for the formation of a new electoral party to the right of the CDU. He supported the Republicans , the German Social Union and the Federation of Free Citizens . His Catholic wife Regina Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing was also a member of the Federation of Free Citizens . On August 5, 2006, Schrenck-Notzing himself entered the Catholic Church in the Church of St. Peter in Munich.

Schrenck-Notzing died on January 25, 2009 at the age of 81 after a brief, serious illness. In an obituary, the former Welt editor-in-chief Herbert Kremp wrote : “Schrenck-Notzing was a conservative individual thinker - not infatuated with the Reich, not in love with the nation, but rather European and skeptical of manipulating (party) politics and the popular pedagogical hype of public education that made freedom unconventional wants to drive out. ”His book collection was integrated into the library of conservatism .

Fonts

literature

  • Darius Harwardt: "The resistance must be organized - and above all also spiritually." Armin Mohler and Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing as right-wing intellectuals in the Federal Republic. In: D. Timothy Goering: History of ideas today. Traditions and Perspectives . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3924-7 , pp. 119–150.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 19th edition, Societas-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, p. 895.
  • Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing , In: International Biographical Archive. 52/2001 of December 17, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Schrenck-Notzing, Caspar von. In: Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism (= Antifa Edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , pp. 525-526.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedemann Schmidt: The New Right and the Berlin Republic. Paths running in parallel in the normalization discourse. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, p. 30. (books.google.de)
  2. ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen: The New Right in Germany. Anti-democratic and racist tendencies. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, p. 103. (books.google.de)
  3. ↑ Richard Stöss : The "new right" in the Federal Republic. Right-wing extremism dossier from the Federal Agency for Civic Education , December 17, 2007. (bpb.de)
  4. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : "Conservative Revolution" and "New Right". Right-wing extremist intellectuals against the constitutional state. Opladen 1998, p. 203.
  5. ^ Lutz Niethammer: Collective Identity. Secret sources of an uncanny economy. Reinbek 2000, p. 488.
  6. ↑ Thorsten Thaler : Farewell to a brave obituary: Regina Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing. In: Young Freedom . January 13, 2012. (jf-archiv.de)
  7. ↑ trauer.sueddeutsche.de
  8. ^ Leaves for international politics. 11, 1972, p. 1157.
  9. ^ Criticón. 56, 11/12, 1979.
  10. ↑ bifff-berlin.de
  11. ↑ Rainer Benthin : On the way to the center: Public strategies of the new right. Campus, 2004, p. 17; For the protection of the constitution, Criticón was one of the "central organs of the New Right", Der Spiegel. No. 36, September 2, 1996.
  12. ↑ Funding for Conservative Education and Research on the website of the Library of Conservatism , accessed on June 17, 2015.
  13. ^ Jens Mecklenburg: Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefanten Press, 1996, p. 526.
  14. ^ Herbert Kremp: On the death of Caspar Schrenck-Notzing. In: The world. January 30, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Schrenck-Notzing, Caspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seestaler, Ignaz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2009
Place of death Munich