The Middle East (bi-monthly)

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The Middle East

description German political bi-monthly publication
Area of ​​Expertise Politics , Conservative Revolution
language German
publishing company Publishing house of the Middle East GmbH ( German Empire )
Headquarters Motzstrasse 22 , Berlin
First edition January 3, 1928
attitude March 1936
founder Hans Schwarz , Adolf von Trotha , Bernd von Wedel
Frequency of publication bi-monthly; monthly from 1934
ZDB 530449-0

The Middle East , additional title "Politische Halbmonatsschrift", was a German, conservative-revolutionary bi-monthly publication that was published monthly from 1928 to 1936 in Berlin , from 1934 onwards.

history

The newspaper was founded and published by Hans Schwarz , Adolf von Trotha and Bernd von Wedel . Like the newspaper Das Gewissen, the publishing house was located at Motzstraße 22 , a now listed tenement house , which was built by Gustav Gebhardt in 1896/97 .

Schwarz was the administrator and editor of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's writings . He demanded the regain of the lost provinces and the confrontation with Poland. Von Trotha was the head of the Admiralty of the Reichsmarine , dismissed in 1920 because of his involvement in the Kapp Putsch . Von Wedel, who was elected Stahlhelm Country Leader Pommern-Grenzmark in 1928, had been holding so-called "political teas" in Fürstensee since 1926, at which Hans Schwarz, Giselher Wirsing , Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz , Adolf von Trotha, Prince Oskar , Prince Wilhelm and especially Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau participated. He had in along with Elard of Oldenburg Januschau Gdansk the East Elbe Committee initiated a forum that the programmatic coordination right-wing organizations in the eastern provinces of Prussia should serve. The political stance of the newspaper was strongly influenced by Moeller's work. Armin Mohler called it the journalistic center of Prussian and Eastern mysticism within the Conservative Revolution. Her subject was initially political and economic problems in East Central Europe, and since the 1930s questions from the Middle East. In the first year mainly short extracts from Moeller's writings and bellicose essays by various authors were published. The articles published by his widow suggest that Moeller believed in the racial doctrine and ruthless aggression she advocated . In the second issue of January 15, 1928, Bernd von Wedel published an article in which he suspected the end of the " world economy " and saw the future solely in the "national economy ", in which the recovery of Germany depends primarily on agriculture be. Tied to its fellow countrymen, the magazine also wanted to draw domestic political consequences. From 1934 the paper appeared monthly.

Most recently, Hans Schwarz published the newspaper in conjunction with the Arthur Moeller van den Bruck archive based in Berlin. The publication was discontinued in the 9th year with issue 3 in March 1936. Far more than the political quarrels about the publications about Moeller's works or Schwarz 'activities in the 1920s, the reason for the setting of a court case against Schwarz, which was held in March by a teacher of the agricultural apprentice Rolf. W. had been reported and was in custody from March 21, 1936. On September 23rd of the same year he was sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Second Large Criminal Chamber of the Braunschweig Regional Court for an offense under Section 175 RStGB “fornication between men” .

literature

  • The Middle East. In: Eastern Europe , Volume 3, 1927, p. 676.
  • Michel Grunewald: The young conservative magazine “The Middle East” and its struggle for “Reich Europe” (1928–1936). In: ders./ Hans Manfred Bock (ed.): Le discours européen dans les revues allemandes (1933–1939). The European discourse in German magazines (1933–1939). Lang, Bern et al. 1999, ISBN 978-3-906762-96-8 , pp. 265-310.

Web links

  • ZDB ID 530449-0 , 1.1928 - 9.1936.3; so that shows are discontinued

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Fritz Stern : Cultural pessimism as a political danger. An analysis of national ideology in Germany. Klett-Cotta, 2005, p. 349. ISBN 978-3-608-94136-4
  2. ↑ a b The Middle East. In: Eastern Europe , Volume 3, 1927, p. 676.
  3. ^ A b Wolf Christian von Wedel Parlow : Ostelbischer Nobility in National Socialism. Family memories using the example of the fronds. V & R unipress, Göttingen 2017, p. 84 ff.
  4. ^ Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Walter de Gruyter, 2015, p. 551 f. ISBN 978-3-050-07981-3
  5. ↑ Volker Weiß : Modern Antimodern. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and the change in conservatism. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012, p. 272. ISBN 978-3-657-77146-2
  6. ^ Armin Mohler, Karlheinz Weißmann : The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918-1932. A manual. , Graz 2005, p. 518.
  7. ^ Michel Grunewald, Hans Manfred Bock: Le discours européen dans les revues allemandes (1945–1955). The European discourse in German magazines (1945–1955). Lang, 1999, pp. 268-272. ISBN 978-3-906-76296-8
  8. ↑ Michel Grunewald: The young conservative magazine "The Middle East" and its struggle for "Reich Europe" (1928-1936). In: ders./ Hans Manfred Bock (ed.): Le discours européen dans les revues allemandes (1933–1939). The European discourse in German magazines (1933–1939). Lang, Bern et al. 1999, ISBN 978-3-906762-96-8 , p. 266.
  9. ^ Armin Mohler, Karlheinz Weißmann : The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918-1932. A manual. , Graz 2005, p. 347.
  10. ^ The trial against Hans Schwarz. In: Volker Weiß : Modern Antimodern. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and the change in conservatism. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, S 279. ISBN 978-3-506-77146-9 (= Dissertation University of Hamburg [2009])