German Reform Association (anti-Semitism)
The German Reform Association was founded in 1879 as part of the growing anti-Semitic movement in the Kingdom of Saxony . It should not be confused with the German Reform Association of the 1860s.
The founder of the Dresden-based organization was the small business owner Alexander Pinkert . The association was anti-Semitic. But with the naming he claimed to stand for general reforms. The association reached beyond the founding region. Local groups emerged in Hesse and the province of Westphalia .
In 1882 the group organized an international anti-Jewish congress . This should serve to promote the cooperation of the anti-Semitic organizations at national and international level. A year later, a second congress took place in Chemnitz. Both meetings failed because of the contrast between moderate and radical anti-Semites.
The association had published the magazine "Deutsche Reform" since 1887, which finally appeared daily as a newspaper. As an independent organization, the reform association lost its importance as early as the mid-1880s. It was eventually largely controlled by the Conservative Party of Dresden.
literature
- Massimo Ferrari Zumbini: The Roots of Evil. Frankfurt am Main, 2003, p. 254 digitized