Dynamite

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Dynamitarde is no longer a common term for an assassin who carries out terrorist attacks using the explosive dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel .

History of origin

At the end of the 19th century Europe was shaken by a multitude of terrorist attacks targeting public figures . These were perpetrated by militant anarchists whose aim is to induce the working class to revolt against the existing state structures and valid legal system. The trigger for the wave of attacks was the bloody suppression of the Paris Commune by the French government in 1871. The most prominent victim of a dynamite was Tsar Alexander II , who died in an assassination attempt in 1881 during a carriage ride through St. Petersburg . An attack on Kaiser Wilhelm I , carried out by the anarchist August Reinsdorf in 1883, only failed because of the damp weather. Due to the accumulation of such attacks - in 1892 alone there were over a thousand attacks, spread all over Europe, the majority in France - the term “dynamitarden”, coined by the public for the assassins, was founded.

In order to counter this problem, many states in Europe decided to regulate free, simple access to explosives, including dynamite. In Germany , for example, in 1884 the law against the criminal and public dangerous use of explosives, simplified dynamite law , was passed.

Use in literature

Within the literature, the designation dynamitard or dynamitarde was used in different forms. Thus Friedrich Nietzsche called "literary Dynamitard". Theodor Fontane used the terms " Petroleur und Dynamitarde" in his work Frau Jenny Treibel . Berta von Suttner wrote in her publication Das Maschinenzeitalter about “ nihilists ” who - “whether as writers, as tribunes or as dynamitarians - wanted to improve the world”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Kraetz: The other side of the coin. In: The time. October 11, 2001, accessed January 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Put your arms down! Pacifist movement puzzles Nobel. (No longer available online.) In: ZDF. February 22, 2007, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  3. ↑ Ariane Stürmer: Dynamite inventor Nobel bang on bang. In: Spiegel Online . September 21, 2009, accessed January 26, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Dynamite. In: Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Retrieved January 26, 2016 .