Claus Wolfschlag

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Claus-Martin Wolfschlag (* 1966 ) is a German political scientist and publicist . He is one of the regular authors of Junge Freiheit and is politically located in the New Right . Political scientists and specialist authors refer to his publications as academic anti-anti-fascist journalism.

Life

Education

Wolfschlag studied history , art history and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1993 he wrote his master's thesis (MA) on the national-conservative resistance against Adolf Hitler ; since the late 1990s he has published on the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO) and left anti-fascism . In 2001 he was employed by the political scientists Hans-Helmuth Knütter (already retired) and Manfred Funke at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with the dissertation The Antifascist Milieu. From the “black block” to the “chain of lights” - The political repression against “right-wing extremism” in the Federal Republic of Germany to Dr. phil. PhD . The work was published by the ultra-right Leopold Stocker Verlag in Graz .

Journalism

He had small acting roles in the feature film Overnight (2002) by Horst Krassa and short films. Wolfschlag edited an illustrated book with photographs by Sandra Mann (2003), wrote an introduction to the work of the ethnic painter Ludwig Fahrenkrog and published short stories in anthologies.

As early as the late 1980s, Wolfschlag published his first essays in the journal Europa , the organ of the NPD -national European youth organization . As a result, he wrote articles as a freelance journalist in weekly, daily newspapers and other periodicals of the politically right-wing spectrum. He writes regularly in the Junge Freiheit , otherwise articles appeared in German-language papers such as Burschenschaftliche Blätter , Eckartbote , Etappe , Gegengift , Neue Order , Ostpreußenblatt , Sezession , Sigill , Volkslust , we ourselves , Zeitwende ( Hagal ), Zinnober and Zur Zeit . As a freelancer, Claus Wolfschlag often writes and photographs for the Offenbach-Post daily newspaper, particularly about cultural events in Offenbach such as Architecture Day .

In the 2000s he published a few articles in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

He was invited as a speaker at the Library of Conservatism (2014).

reception

Contributions

The political scientist and sociologist Armin Pfahl-Traughber (1998), at the time head of the division for right-wing extremism at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , criticized Wolfschlag's book Hitler's right-wing opponents . According to Pfahl-Traughber, Wolfschlag draws his knowledge “usually from second hand” and “takes information from a few works of secondary literature without often having taken note of the original of the primary literature of those portrayed”. The book intended "with a relatively openly recognizable politically motivated intention, with the emphasis on the distance of the groups and currents presented to Hitler's NSDAP , to morally relieve them of the guilt of intellectual preparation and ideological common ground."

Thomas Pfeiffer (2000), social scientist, criticized in his dissertation that Wolfschlag only “apologetically” alludes to the “Nazi participation” of the conservative revolutionary painter Fidus in an article in the yearbook.

In a contribution published in Junge Freiheit ( The enemy in his own country ), Wolfschlag “stirs up the image of the left as a ' traitor to the fatherland '”. In addition, “ xenophobic resentment is declared legitimate”, according to the social scientist Alexander Häusler (2002) from the University of Cologne , who now works on the research focus right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism .

According to the political scientist Stefan Kubon (2006), who examined the article in Junge Freiheit , Wolfschlag apparently encountered “ neo-pagan currents [...] very benevolently”. In addition, Wolfschlag develops a “real horror scenario when he discusses the immigration of foreigners to Germany”, says Kubon (2012).

dissertation

A review of Wolfschlag's study The Antifascist Milieu. From the black block to the chain of lights in the Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (Walter Rösch, 2003) stated: “Everywhere he smells left repression where scientists or publicists call right agitation by name. However, the evidence often only consists of short sentence fragments in the form of a list. The aim of the author seems from the outset to be an attempt to stylize representatives of the right-wing spectrum and to brand those who deal with right-wing extremism as representatives of what he sees as an illiberal opinion cartel. "

The extremism researcher Eckhard Jesse , full professor at Chemnitz University of Technology , stated in an anthology for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in 2002 : “An understanding that glorifies antifascism must be warned as well as the opposite concern that demonizes it. Who like Claus-M. Wolfschlag broadly expands the term 'anti-fascist milieu' and gives the impression that the state is repressing opponents of 'anti-fascism', has to accept the accusation that he himself does not make a clear distinction from right-wing extremist currents. "

The Chemnitz political scientist Tim Peters criticized Wolfschlag's book in 2006: "The impressive wealth of material is put into perspective by a confusing structure, a lack of intersubjectively comprehensible analysis grid and the strong partisanship of the author, who shows relatively unreserved solidarity with those whom he has been victims of the 'anti-fascist repression'. and whom he calls 'right-wing' or 'differentialists'. The distancing from the generally recognized term of right-wing extremism and its consistent use only in quotation marks, because there is no clear definition for this term and it is 'arbitrarily used as a means of denunciation', reinforce doubts about the scientific seriousness of the work. "

The Osnabrück sociologist Bärbel Meurer (2006) noted on The anti-fascist milieu : " right-wing extremist Popaganda writing".

Bettina Blank (2014), who works in political science on Antifa and is an employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg , argues that Wolfschlag's dissertation “does not do justice to the topic in its political one-sidedness”. The work operates “on the basis of initial theses, with which the author himself reveals a questionable relationship to politics and society in the Federal Republic.” Among the more left-wing publicists, the work is assigned to the “Academic Anti-Antifa”.

classification

Social scientists such as Rainer Benthin (2004) and Clemens Heni (2007) as well as other observers from science and journalism place Wolfschlag politically in the New Right . He appeared at various right-wing events, including the Dresden Freedom Talks . On February 23, 2002, Wolfschlag gave a lecture on behalf of the right-wing conservative political scientist Konrad Löw at an event organized by the Danubia Munich fraternity , which at that time was being observed by the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a right-wing extremist organization . Wolfschlag's lecture on the subject of anti-fascism - terror from the left was commented by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution with the statement: "The Danubia fraternity continues to show no fear of contact with speakers who tend to play down right-wing extremism."

Various authors assign Wolfschlag to the intellectual anti-antifa, such as Heni (2007), who described him as an "anti-antifa academic". Wolfschlag produced "profiles of various right-wing extremism researchers", u. a. to the political scientist Hajo Funke . The specialist journalist Anton Maegerle , who mentioned Wolfschlag in the handbook for right-wing radicalism from 2002, also recognizes an “anti-antifa style”. In his publications, Wolfschlag sometimes denounces “journalists, publicists and scientists who are unpopular”. The specialist journalist Andreas Speit (2005) noted that Wolfschlag wrote in “extreme right-wing publications” and outed “people from the Antifa”.

His journalism is also described as anti-antifa in the manual for right-wing extremism (2013) by Thomas Grumke and Bernd Wagner , and in the book Die Wochenzeitung "Junge Freiheit" (2008) by Stephan Braun and Ute Vogt .

Publications

Books

  • Hitler's right-wing opponents. Thoughts on Nationalist Resistance. Arun-Verlag , Engerda 1995, ISBN 3-927940-18-6 .
  • (as ed.) Bye-bye '68… renegades of the left, APO deviants and all kinds of lateral thinkers report. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz / Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7020-0815-2 .
  • The “anti-fascist milieu”: from the “black block” to the “chain of lights”. The political repression against “right-wing extremism” in the Federal Republic of Germany. Stocker, Graz / Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0932-9 (also dissertation at the University of Bonn , 2001).
  • Opposition eyewitnesses. Talks with Hitler's right-wing opponents. Verlag Zeitwende , Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-934291-14-7 .
  • (as ed.) Night-life. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-933257-96-4 .
  • (as ed.) "All had survived ...". Personal reports from the end of the war in Germany in 1945. Edition Octopus published by the publishing house Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-86582-240-1 .
  • Ludwig Fahrenkrog - The golden gate. A German painter between Art Nouveau and German beliefs. Verlag Zeitwende, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-934291-39-2 .
  • (as publisher) Hans Doerner: 100 years and a little more ... Instructions for healthy aging. Edition Octopus in the publishing house Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-86582-406-6 .
  • Dream city and Armageddon. Vision of the future and the end of the world in science fiction films. Ares-Verlag , Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902475-38-1 .

Book contributions

  • Argus observes the struggle for multiculturalism . In: Stefan Ulbrich (Ed.): Multikultopia. Thoughts on the multicultural society . Vilsbiburg, Arun-Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-927940-03-8 , pp. 17-68.
  • The painter Fidus and the evaluation of his work in the light of post-war research . In: Heinz-Theo Homann , Gerhard Quast (Red.): Yearbook for the Conservative Revolution . Thomas, Cologne 1994.
  • Build a home. For a human architecture . In: Andreas Molau (Ed.): Opposition for Germany. Contradiction and renewal. Verlagsgesellschaft Berg , Berg am Starnberger See 1995, ISBN 3-86118-046-4 , pp. 113-152.
  • Frustration, anger, control. From the “free-democratic” to the “anti-fascist-people's democratic” basic order since 1989/90 and Antifa is pop. For the popular culture constitution of a radical left . In: Hans-Helmuth Knütter , Stefan Winckler (eds.): Handbook of Left Extremism. The underestimated danger. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 2002, ISBN 3-7020-0968-X . Pp. 83-97 and pp. 98-118.

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anton Maegerle : Right-wing extremist violence and terror . In: Thomas Grumke , Bernd Wagner (Hrsg.): Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus . People - organizations - networks. From neo-Nazism to the middle of society . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3399-5 , p. 162.
  2. ↑ Overnight (2002).
  3. ↑ Margret Chatwin: Reach for the sovereignty of opinion. Internet campaigns of "Junge Freiheit" using the example of Wikipedia . In: Stephan Braun , Ute Vogt (ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit". Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 , p. 244.
  4. ↑ Volker Weiß : Better to be tight than slack . In: Jungle World , No. 51, December 20, 2012.
  5. ^ A b Martin Dietzsch , Siegfried Jäger , Helmut Kellershohn , Alfred Schobert : Nation instead of democracy. Being and design of the "Junge Freiheit" (= Edition DISS . Volume 2). 2nd unchanged edition, Unrast, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-733-6 , p. 216.
  6. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Conservative Revolution and New Right. Right-wing extremist intellectuals against the democratic constitutional state . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-1888-0 , p. 214.
  7. ^ Anton Maegerle : Leaves against the zeitgeist . In: Wolfgang Gessenharter , Thomas Pfeiffer (eds.): The new right - a threat to democracy? . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4162-9 , p. 202.
  8. ↑ Thomas Naumann, Patrick Schwarz: From the CD to the "Lichtscheibe". The culture magazine Sigill . In: Andreas Speit (Ed.): Aesthetic mobilization. Dark-Wave, Neofolk and Industrial in the field of tension of right-wing ideologies (= advice ). Unrast, Hamburg et al. 2002, ISBN 3-89771-804-9 , p. 188.
  9. ^ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Right intelligence sheets and theoretical organs . In: Operations 31 (1992) 116, p. 37 (46).
  10. ↑ Andreas Speit : Synergy Effects - Movements between the black scene and the brown spectrum . In: Andreas Speit (Ed.): Aesthetic mobilization. Dark-Wave, Neofolk and Industrial in the field of tension of right-wing ideologies (= advice ). Unrast, Hamburg et al. 2002, ISBN 3-89771-804-9 , p. 216.
  11. ↑ Report by Claus Wolfschlag in Offenbach-Post from June 26, 2017 on Architecture Day 2017 , Offenbach-Post website. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  12. ^ Articles by Wolfschlag in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung were z. E.g. the life of the students in the new building from June 8, 2003, love cases from December 19, 2003, Mandy, Peggy and Cindy from February 18, 2004.
  13. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Conservative Revolution and New Right. Right-wing extremist intellectuals against the democratic constitutional state . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-1888-0 , p. 191 f.
  14. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer : Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 198.
  15. ↑ Alexander Häusler : Multiculturalism as a threat to German identity. Migration and integration in media of the extreme right . In: Christoph Butterwegge , Janine Cremer, Alexander Häusler, Gudrun Hentges , Thomas Pfeiffer , Carolin Reisslandt , Samuel Salzborn : Topics of the Right - Topics of the Middle: Immigration, demographic change and national awareness . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3419-3 , p. 81 f.
  16. ^ Stefan Kubon : The West German newspaper "Junge Freiheit" and the legacy of the "conservative revolution" of the Weimar Republic. A study to determine the continuity of "conservative-revolutionary" political ideas (= spectrum of political science . Vol. 35). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89913-527-5 , p. 175.
  17. ↑ Stefan Kubon : JF: The fight against refugees as a constant . publikative.org , December 4, 2012.
  18. ^ Walter Rösch: Review: Wolfschlag, The anti-fascist milieu . In: Journal for Political Science , No. 13/2003, p. 996 f.
  19. ↑ Eckhard Jesse : Plea for an anti-extremist consensus . In: Manfred Agethen u. a .: The abused anti-fascism. GDR state doctrine and the lie of the German left . With a foreword by Wolfgang Schäuble , ed. on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-451-28017-5 , p. 27.
  20. ↑ Tim Peters : The anti-fascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist point of view (= research politics ). With a foreword by Eckhard Jesse . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14775-7 , p. 17.
  21. ↑ Bärbel Meurer : Is the "old" concept of fascism enough or do we need a "new" one? . In: Roger Griffin , Werner Loh , Andreas Umland (Eds.): Fascism past and present, west and east. An international debate on concepts and cases in the comparative study of the extreme right (= Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society . 35). With an afterword by Walter Laqueur , Ibidem, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89821-674-8 , p. 341.
  22. ↑ Bettina Blank: "Deutschland, einig Antifa" ?. "Antifascism" as a field of agitation by left-wing extremists (= extremism and democracy . Vol. 28). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0699-0 .
  23. ↑ Rainer Benthin : On the way to the center: Public strategies of the new right (= Campus Research . Vol. 875). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37620-2 , p. 224.
  24. ^ Clemens Heni : Salon ability of the new right: "National identity", anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany 1970–2005: Henning Eichberg as an example . With a foreword by Anton Pelinka , Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8288-9216-3 , p. 51.
  25. ↑ Wolfgang Buschfort : Secret Guardians of the Constitution. From the Düsseldorf information center to the Federal Republic's first protection of the constitution (1947–1961) (= Schöningh Collection on the past and present ). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-506-71728-6 , p. 27.
  26. ↑ Christoph Schütte: How did their opponents save democracy? . In: Thomas Jäger , Dieter Hoffmann (Ed.): Democracy in the Crisis? Future of democracy . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1246-7 , p. 247.
  27. ↑ Marina Schuster: Fidus - an opinion artist of the national cultural movement . In: Uwe Puschner , Walter Schmitz , Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): Handbook on the "völkisch movement" 1871-1918 . KG Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, p. 645.
  28. ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen : The new right in Germany. anti-democratic and racist tendencies . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3078-3 , p. 151.
  29. ↑ Information for the Protection of the Constitution Bavaria , Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Munich, 1st half of 2001; Information for the Protection of the Constitution Bavaria , Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Munich, 1st half of 2002 (PDF file)
  30. ^ Clemens Heni : Salon ability of the new right: "National identity", anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany 1970–2005: Henning Eichberg as an example . With a foreword by Anton Pelinka , Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8288-9216-3 , p. 409.
  31. ↑ Clemens Heni: Salon ability of the new right: “National identity”, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany 1970-2005: Henning Eichberg as an example . With a foreword by Anton Pelinka , Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8288-9216-3 , p. 70.
  32. ↑ Andreas Speit : When Germans sing too much . In: taz , August 29, 2005, p. 24.
  33. ^ Handbook for Right-Wing Extremism (2013) by Thomas Grumke and Bernd Wagner
  34. ↑ The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit" (2008) by Stephan Braun and Ute Vogt
personal data
SURNAME Wolfschlag, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolfschlag, Claus-Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966