Friedrich Wichtl

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Friedrich Wichtl

Friedrich Wichtl (* 15. March 1872 in Vienna , † 29. July 1921 ) was an Austrian German national politicians and imperial parliaments (1911) and of 21 October 1918 to the 16 February 1919 a member of the first Provisional National Assembly of the Republic of German Austria as a member of the German National Party (DnP). He was also chairman of the Federation of Germans in Lower Austria (Vienna / Josephstadt). Wichtl was a lawyer with a doctorate and was a private school director and founder of Austria's first private law school in Vienna. He wrote textbooks for his own school.

life and career

Wichtl attended the Franz-Josef-Gymnasium in Vienna and studied law at the University of Vienna . During his studies in 1894 he co-founded the defensive association Amicitia . He was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . He first worked as a violin teacher , was an instructor in a count's house and then founded the first Austrian private law school in Austria to train lawyers.

Immediately after the First World War , Wichtl came out with sensational, uncritical diatribes against Freemasonry . The most widespread publication was World Freemasonry - World Revolution - World Republic . Carl Vogl claims that the material and the guidelines for the work in 1917 were provided by the Foreign Office in Berlin . He got this information from the writer Gustav Meyrink , the author of the Golem , to whom the Foreign Office in Berlin first assigned the task of writing a novel for propaganda purposes in which it was to be proven that the Freemasons were to blame for the First World War . This novel was also to be translated into English and Swedish, and half a million copies were to be sent around the world. Meyrink took over this task - probably with the intention of defusing the intended result - but was released from it again because his views expressed in it obviously did not coincide with those of the Foreign Office. According to Vogl, the task was then assigned to Friedrich Wichtl.

Wichtl is also the author of other German national propaganda literature, including the pamphlets Dr. Karl Krámář, the instigator of the World War (Munich 1918) and Masonic murders (Vienna 1920), which with its anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic propaganda also formed the basis for General Ludendorff's anti-Masonic writings. Wichtl's publications met with great approval, especially against the background of the lost World War and in the time of political and social upheaval, which large parts of the German population perceived as unsafe, and their effect on the public can be compared with that of Leo Taxil's earlier publications to compare. Wichtl wanted to make the public believe that behind all revolutionary activities, all upheavals in history and all murders of important political personalities (in particular behind the assassination attempt on the Austrian heir to the throne Franz-Ferdinand in Sarajevo ), there was a Masonic-Jewish world conspiracy Attainment of world domination. Wichtl is one of a number of pioneers of the anti-Semitic policy of the Third Reich . Even today, Wichtl's statements can still be found in almost all conspiracy theories about an allegedly Masonic-Zionist world conspiracy, although it has meanwhile been proven beyond doubt that they were used exclusively for propaganda purposes. It is all the more astonishing that these pamphlets are still making their way into the public domain through so-called facsimile prints for “historical research” via various esoteric publishers.

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literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 288.
  • Reinhard Markner: Friedrich Wichtl (1872–1921). In: Helmut Reinalter (Hrsg.): Handbook of the conspiracy theories. Salier, Leipzig 2018, pp. 334–37.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Website of the Parliament of the Republic of Austria
  2. ↑ Amicitia was after its dissolution and re-establishment as Arminia from 1896-1901 member of the German-Völkisch Waidhofen Association . In 1910 Arminia changed to a fraternity and changed her name to the Vienna fraternity Alania . Cf. Paulgerhard Gladen, Kurt U. Bertrams: The German-Völkisch corporations associations. Deutsche Wehrschaft, Waidhofener Verband et al. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2009, ISBN 978-3-933892-11-9 , p. 56; on membership: Günther Berka: 100 years of the German fraternity in Austria 1859–1959. The intellectual achievement of their great men . Processed on behalf of the General Delegate Convention of the German Burschenschaft in Austria. (= History of European Studentism, Vol. 1). Aula Verlag, Graz 1959, p. 19.
  3. ↑ cf. Lennhoff, Posner, Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon; Herbig Verlag, February 2000, pp. 902, 1212-1213.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Wichtl: Freemasonry - world revolution - World Republic , 11th edition, Munich 1928
  5. ^ Vogl, Carl: Confessions of a Pastor ; Aegis publishing house; Vienna, Berlin 1930
personal data
SURNAME Wichtl, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian German national politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1922
Place of death Vienna