Franz Karg von Bebenburg

Franz Freiherr Karg von Bebenburg (also Franz von Bebenburg ; born January 8, 1910 , † September 19, 2003 ) was a German publisher and völkisch right-wing extremist and supporter of the Ludendorff movement.

In 1933 Franz von Bebenburg married Ingeborg von Kemnitz (1906–1970), the daughter of Mathilde Ludendorff (1877–1966) from her first marriage to the zoologist Gustav Adolf von Kemnitz . As a bookseller, he was initially the general agent of the Ludendorff publishing house in Munich, which published the writings of World War General Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) and the philosopher Mathilde, as well as the magazine Am heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft until 1939.

After 1945 he founded the Hohe Warte publishing house in Pähl as a sole proprietorship and from 1949 re-published the magazine Der Quell . Together with the former officer Karl von Unruh, von Bebenburg published new writings of the ethnic-religious union. In 1957 the weekly Volkswarte followed again .

In 1959 Bebenburg was charged with a report in the magazine " Der Quell ", which appeared in his publishing house, before the district court of the Upper Bavarian town of Weilheim . In this report, which appeared in issue 1/1959 of the aforementioned journal, the statements of some Egyptian students who had visited West Berlin and whose names are not mentioned are quoted. In particular, the following quote was objected to: "Two Jews bursting with hatred of the Germans, Heinz Galinski and Joachim Lipschitz , tyrannize the illegitimate German people in West Berlin." The court did not accept the prosecutor's request to sentence the publisher to six months in prison . The process ended in an acquittal .

In 1961 the magazine was banned by the interior ministers of the federal states, but this ban was withdrawn in 1965. Bebenburg published the complete works and the memories of Mathilde Ludendorff. He also published the history of the Ludendorff movement. After his death in 2003 the publishing house was continued as a GmbH with changing managing directors.

Fonts

• Stenographic report on the arbitration chamber proceedings against Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff from November 23 to December 16, 1949 , Hohe Warte, Stuttgart no year.
• with Gunther Duda, Hartwig Golf , Wolfgang Seeger: Ludendorff. Study of a Revolutionary. From lieutenant to general. Ruler of a kingdom. Politics and Weltanschauung in thought Ludendorff's life and personality. Verlag Hohe Warte von Bebenburg, Pähl 1985, ISBN 3-88202-326-0 .

literature

• Annika Spilker: Gender, religion and ethnic nationalism: The doctor and anti-Semite Mathilde Ludendorff (1877-1966) , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013
• Gunther Duda: Remembrance of the Dead ( Obituary 2003 )
• Knowledge of God (L) ( Der Spiegel 8/1960 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 8/1960