Günther Deschner

Günther Deschner (* 14. May 1941 in Fürth ) is a right-wing conservative German journalist, historian , journalist and documentary filmmaker , who is mainly concerned with the period of National Socialism and questions of the Middle East , in particular the ethnicity of the Kurds , is concerned.

biography

Deschner studied history and political science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He was a student of Hans-Joachim Schoeps and received his doctorate in 1968 with his work "Gobineau and Germany. The Influence of Gobineau's " Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines "on German intellectual history 1853-1917" . He then worked as an editor and editor for several newspaper and book publishers. As a journalist, he wrote mostly in the daily newspaper Die Welt , in which he was temporarily head of culture, as well as in smaller periodicals such as criticón . Today he writes for the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit .

From 1976 to 1981 Deschner was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Germans Abroad (VDA).

In the 1980s Deschner was part of the editorial team of Nouvelle École , the organ of the right-wing French organization GRECE .

In October 1987 Deschner acted as editor-in-chief of the "independent news magazine PLUS" , a project by the publisher Dietmar Straube, which aimed to break the alleged "sole rule" of Der Spiegel magazine and to prevent " Augstein from engaging in further character assassination campaigns."

In 1990 Deschner founded his own media publishing house, Media D , where he produced several films.

From its founding in December 2009 to February 2011, Günther Deschner was editor-in-chief of the news magazine First! ("The magazine for German interests"). Deschner saw his collaboration in the magazine published by the right-wing extremist publisher Dietmar Munier as a continuation of his previous political positions:

“I and my colleagues did not write any differently in the world than we write today. If one should perceive this as being too right today, one can say that we have not moved further to the right, but the party system and the media landscape have moved further to the left. "

In his book The Kurds. People without a state , Deschner describes the political, historical and economic condition of the Kurds. Since 1972 he has toured Kurdistan several times and pursued the efforts of Kurdish parties and movements for independence. He held talks with Mustafa Barsani , the head of the Patriotic Union Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani , and the now imprisoned former leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan . According to his balance sheet, the Kurds have always been used like farmers on the chessboard of regional and international politics.

Fonts (selection)

• Gobineau and Germany: The influence of JA de Gobineau's "Essai sur inégalité des races humaines" on German intellectual history 1853-1917 , Erlangen-Nürnberg 1968, DNB 481527516 , dissertation Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg , Philosophical Faculty, February 2, 1968, 194 pages .
• People in the ghetto . Foreword by Jean Améry . Bertelsmann Sachbuchverlag, Gütersloh 1969, DNB 456332510 .
• Reinhard Heydrich . Governor of total power . Bechtle, Esslingen am Neckar 1977, new edition: Reinhard Heydrich. Biography of a Reich Protector . 5th expanded edition, Universitas, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8004-1482-6 .
• Saladin's sons: The Kurds - the deceived people . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-426-26098-0 .
• The 2nd World War. Images, data, documents . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh / Berlin / Munich / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-570-05345-8 .
• Was there an “Operation Barbarossa” of the Western powers? A historical view (= small SWG series , issue 42). SWG, Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft , Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-88527-063-3 (lecture, held at the invitation of the Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft eV in Hamburg).
• The Kurds, the deceived people. Straube, Erlangen / Bonn / Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-927491-02-0 .
• The Kurds . People without a state. Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7766-2358-1 .
• Bombs on Baku , Allied war plans against the Soviet Union 1939/1940 (= Kaplaken , Volume 17). Edition Antaios , Schnellroda 2009, ISBN 978-3-935063-87-6 .
• Frederick the Great and his Prussia in historical paintings. Orion-Heimreiter, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89093-900-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Kellershohn, The Plagiarism: The Völkische Nationalismus der "Junge Freiheit" , DISS Verlag 1994, p. 100
2. ↑ The imprint of NOUVELLE ECOLE, No. 36 / summer 1981, p. 10, names the former editor of WELT, Günther Deschner, as a Bonn correspondent; Secondary source to the primary source: Peter Dudek, Hans-Gerd Jaschke, Jugend rechtsaußen , Päd. Extra Buchverlag 1982, p. 154
3. ↑ To be read in the right-wing extremist publication Germany in Past and Present 1988, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 45
4. ↑ Wolfgang J. Koschnick , Media Yearbook and Journalist Yearbook , Walter de Gruyter 1996, p. 71
5. ↑ The new right-wing magazine "First" ( Memento from February 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on NDR-Online (February 10, 2010) (web archive)
6. ^ Günther Deschner: The Kurds. People without a state. , Review of October 27, 2003 by Reinhard Backes on Deutschlandfunk.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Deschner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of The Kurds