Der Ring (German magazine)
The Ring was a political weekly published from 1928 to 1943. From 1927 to 1931 the full title of the magazine was Der Ring. Political weekly , from 1931 the subtitle was changed, so that the organ was temporarily called Der Ring until 1934 . Conservative weekly was called . In the last few years of its publication, the magazine was called Wirtschafts-Ring .
Release history
The ring emerged in 1927 from the weekly Das Gewissen , which had been the journalistic forum of the so-called ring movement since 1920 . This was a loose union of nationally oriented civic organizations that arose after the First World War and saw itself as an extra-parliamentary national opposition to the Weimar Republic . The name of the ring movement, which the magazine picked up in its title, should symbolically refer to the idea of integrating all nationally-minded, young-conservative Germans with one another.
The ideas propagated in the ring were trained on the ideas of Max Hildebert Boehm , Eduard Stadtler and above all Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , the spiritual guiding stars of the ring movement, and found its readership mainly in right-wing conservative circles.
After the conscience had already been close to conservative political associations such as the Juniklub and the Political College , Der Ring was immediately after its publication in close relationship with the German gentlemen's club founded in 1924 and finally took over the function of its official organ. Heinrich von Gleichen-Rußwurm (usually called Heinrich von Gleichen for short) took over the post of editor of the magazine , who was also a leading member of the men's club and its secretary.
Recurring journalistic topics were the " Ideas of 1914 ", the heroization of the First World War and the meaning of the war experience, the demonization and / or perpetuation of the peace settlement of 1919 and a "mystifying philosophy of history that correlates with popular theory". The constitutional ideas or the ideas for overcoming the Weimar constitutional system through targeted utilization of the emergency ordinances of the Weimar constitution against them were based on the considerations of the constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt , a member of the men's club. In terms of economic policy, they were close to the nobility, heavy industry and the financial world - membership in the men's club.
The editorial offices of the Ring were located at Motzstraße 22 in Berlin . The authors who wrote for the "Ring" included Ernst Rudolf Huber , Arnold Rechberg and Friedrich Vorwerk (who was the editor of the paper) as well as the politicians Werner von Rheinbaben and Franz von Papen . For the political career of the latter, an essay published in the Ring at the beginning of 1932, which made suggestions for overcoming the then rampant economic crisis, had far-reaching consequences. In May of this year, when the appointment of a new Chancellor became necessary on the occasion of the overthrow of the Brüning government , Kurt von Schleicher , the closest advisor to President Paul von Hindenburg , presented the head of state with Papen's essay from the ring surrounding his proposal, the authors as Brüning's successor to make Reich Chancellor, with the argument of his convincing programmatic ideas, to give emphasis.
During von Papen's reign from June to December 1932, the ring was one of the few journalistic pillars of Papen's conservative cabinet of barons .
The affiliated "Ring-Verlag" published political writings such as The Third Reich (1923) by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and fiction such as Der Sumbuddawald (1928) by the West Prussian writer Elisabeth Siewert .
literature
- Berthold Petzinna: Education for the German lifestyle. Origin and development of the young conservative ring circle 1918 - 1933. Oldenbourg Academy, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3050031913 available online. Zugl. Diss. Phil. Ruhr University 1996
- Ishida Yuji: Young Conservatives in the Weimar Republic. The Ring-Kreis 1928 - 1933. Frankfurt 1988
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ishida Yuji, 1988, p. 51 ff. This renaming was intended to remove the magazine from politics, at least externally, since the National Socialists were particularly critical of the like-minded young conservatives as competitors.
- ↑ Ralf Walkenhaus: Conservative political thinking. A study of the sociology of knowledge on Ernst Rudolf Huber , 1997, p. 131.
- ↑ Little is known about Vorwerk. There is a correspondence between him and Friedrich Gogarten , archived in the estate of the latter in the Göttingen State and University Library
- ^ Rheinbaben: Experienced contemporary history.
- ↑ See, for example, Franz von Papen: Vom Failure of a Democracy , pp. 290, 329 and passim