Office for conservative literature

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The work center for conservative literature was a private organization for the promotion of the monarchist idea , which existed from 1931 to 1934. It had its seat in Würzburg and appeared mainly through the magazine Die Monarchie - magazine for German tradition in the public.

It was founded by the convinced monarchist Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg as a means to help his political ideas achieve a breakthrough. At first it worked in the form of a press service , which offered interested magazines and newspapers articles with monarchist content. On the one hand, the material was gathered from the daily press and, on the other hand, authors were asked to present suitable topics. The aim was not only to spread monarchist attitudes, but above all the presence of relevant topics in the democratic environment of the Weimar Republic .

Since the interest in monarchist publications was less than expected, however, there were funding difficulties. Thereupon Guttenberg decided to publish the material compiled by the Laboratory for Conservative Literature in the form of a magazine. The result was the monthly Monarchy , which appeared from July 1932 to January 1934. It was not sold through bookstores, but sent directly to buyers. Above all, Erwein Freiherr von Aretin , Friedrich Everling , Arthur Hübscher , Gerhard von Janson, Richard Korherr , Friedrich Mattaesius, Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski , Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen , Reinhold Schneider and Anton Ritthaler should be mentioned as employees .

Founded in the spirit of monarchist opposition to the Weimar Republic, the magazine became a voice of monarchist opposition to National Socialism only ten months after its first issue when the NSDAP came to power . On the occasion of the magazine in January 1934, the 75th anniversary of the exile living Emperor Wilhelm II was dedicated, the magazine was banned. Guttenberg, however, was allowed to found another magazine, the White Papers . This magazine was published by Carl Krüger in Mylau, who had also taken over the printing of the last issues of the monarchy .

The later development of the employees of the Laboratory for Conservative Literature in National Socialism shows the broad spectrum of convictions that were united here: Everling (Member of the Reichsgerichtshof ) and Korherr (head of the statistical department in the SS main office , author of the Korherr report ) were political Career, Schneider and Aretin were banned from publishing, Reck-Malleczewen died in Dachau concentration camp .

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