Georg Franz-Willing

Georg Franz-Willing (born March 11, 1915 in Willing ; † September 2008 in Überlingen ) was a German historian. He is mostly attributed to the historical revisionist direction .

Life

After attending the Humanist Gymnasium in Rosenheim and graduating from high school in 1935, Franz-Willing did his military service in 1935/36 . He then studied history, geography, anthropology, folklore, philosophy as well as constitutional and international law at the University of Munich . During the Second World War he took part as a soldier in the western campaign and in the German-Soviet war . During some study vacations, he did his doctorate in 1942/43 under Karl Alexander von Müller with a thesis on Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the plans he developed in the years before the First World War to reform the Habsburg Empire on the basis of so-called trialism . After the war he initially worked as a research assistant at various institutes. Franz Schnabel is said to have denied him the habilitation as a student of Müller.

Then Franz-Willing initially worked as an educator at the " Studienseminar Albertinum " in Munich. From 1960 to 1978 he was a civilian employee in the Bundeswehr . First he taught civics at the Navy Officer School in Flensburg - Mürwik , then he moved to the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau as a historian . In 1978 he retired and has lived in Hödingen on Lake Constance ever since .

Extreme right publications

During his time at the MGFA, Franz-Willing published in the right-wing extremist Deutsche Annalen and later in the German monthly books , Nation Europa and the SS veteran magazine Der Freiwillige, published by HIAG . He gave regular lectures at the Society for Free Journalism and was, among other things, a speaker at the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review (IHR), where he was also a member of the journal's editorial team and published in it. He published mainly in right-wing extremist publishers such as the Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , the Druffel-Verlag , the Grabert-Verlag , the KWSchütz-Verlag , the Nation Europa-Verlag and the Hohenrain-Verlag . He wrote forewords for books by Adolf von Thadden and Alain de Benoist , and also shared books with von Thadden and Hans-Ulrich Kopp .

His early work on the history of the NSDAP was occasionally used by historians as a source of material with reference to "serious defects"; adopting his evaluations is avoided due to the “proximity to right-wing extremism” or “apologetic tendency”.

Fonts

When Georg Franz

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the plans to reform the Habsburg monarchy. RM Rohrer, Brno 1943.
• Kulturkampf. State and Catholic Church in Central Europe from secularization to the end of the Prussian Kulturkampf. D. W. Callwey, Munich 1954.
• Liberalism. The German Liberal Movement in the Habsburg Monarchy. GDW Callwey, Munich 1955.
• About the causes of the military opposition. In: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau / Working Group for Defense Research . 1957.

As Georg Franz-Willing

• The Hitler movement. The Origin, 1919–1922. R. v. Decker's Verlag G. Schenck, Hamburg 1962.
• The Bavarian Vatican Embassy, ​​1803–1934. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1965.
• with Karl Mayr-Deisinger : The policy of Maximilian I of Bavaria and his allies 1618–1651. Oldenbourg / Beck, Munich 1966.
• Kulturkampf yesterday and today. A secular view 1871–1971. GDW Callwey, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7667-0200-9 .
• Origin of the Hitler movement, 1919–1922. 2nd Edition. Schütz , Preußisch Oldendorf 1974, ISBN 3-87725-071-8 .
• Crisis year of the Hitler movement. 1923 1st edition. Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1975, ISBN 3-87725-078-5 .
• Recent history of China. 1840 to the present. Schöningh, Paderborn 1975, ISBN 3-506-77435-2 .
• Putsch and prohibition period of the Hitler movement. November 1923 - February 1925. K. W. Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1977, ISBN 3-87725-085-8 .
• The rise of the United States of America in world history through the decision of the civil war of 1861–1865. Biblio Verl, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1188-9 .
• The second World War. Causes and cause. 2nd Edition. Druffel , Leoni am Starnberger See 1979, ISBN 3-8061-0960-5 .
• 1933, the national survey. Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See 1982, ISBN 3-8061-1021-2 .
• The Reich Chancellery, 1933–1945. Role and importance under the Hitler government. Grabert , Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-87847-073-8 .
• “Am I guilty?” Life and work of the Reichsstudentenführer and Gauleiter Dr. Gustav Adolf Scheel , 1907–1979 - a biography. Druffel-Verl, Leoni am Starnberger See 1987, ISBN 3-8061-1053-0 .
• The technical revolution in the 19th century. The transition to the industrial way of life. Hohenrain-Verlag , Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-89180-016-9 .
• Re-education. The de-nationalization of defeated peoples in the 20th century. 1st edition. Nation Europa , Coburg 1991, ISBN 3-920677-03-X .
• with Adolf von Thadden : Roosevelt. He wanted the big war. Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , Rosenheim 1991, ISBN 3-920722-04-3 .
• War guilt issue of the two world wars. German Verl.-Ges, Rosenheim 1992, ISBN 3-920722-08-6 .
• Coping with the past. Federal Republican national masochism. 1st edition. Nation-Europa-Verl, Coburg 1992, ISBN 3-920677-05-6 .
• Revolution 1933. Attempt to solve the Western crisis. German Verl.-Ges, Rosenheim 1993, ISBN 3-920722-14-0 .
• The financing of the November Revolution 1918. With special consideration of Bavaria. German Verl.-Ges, Preußisch Oldendorf 1999, ISBN 3-920722-60-4 .
• with Hans-Ulrich Kopp : From the Teutons to the Staufers. Splendor and drama of early German history. Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Preußisch Oldendorf 2001, ISBN 3-920722-67-1 .
• The Hitler Movement 1925 to 1934 . Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Preußisch Oldendorf 2001, ISBN 3-920722-64-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Deutsche Annalen (2009), p. 312.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Armin Mohler : History, but not from the end. Georg Franz-Willing (bibliography) . In: Criticón 75 (1983), p. 44.
3. ↑ Fabian Virchow: Against civilism. International relations and the military in the political conceptions of the extreme right. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 423.
4. ^ Franciszek Piper : Denial of the Holocaust and the genocide in Auschwitz. (en.auschwitz.org) “members of the editorial staff”, accessed April 3, 2012
5. ↑ Example of authorship in the newspaper: Georg Franz-Willing: The Origins of the Second World War. [Paper Presented to the Seventh International Revisionist Conference.] In: The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 95-114.
6. ↑ Adolf Hitler. Transformers of the world. German publishing company, 1991.
7. ↑ The sculptor Emil Hipp and his work. The Richard Wagner Memorial for Leipzig. Grabert, 1989.
8. ^ FD Roosevelt / Winston Churchill. Transformers of the world. DVG Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991.
9. ↑ From the Teutons to the Hohenstaufen. German publishing company, Preußisch Oldendorf 2001.
10. ^ Charles F. Sidman: The circulation curve of the Völkischer Beobachter and the development of National Socialism December 1920 - November 1923 (PDF; 413 kB). In: VfZ 1965, pp. 112-118.
11. ↑ Paul Hoser: National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), 1920–1923 / 1925–1945. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . Accessed on April 3, 2012, "indispensable because of the source material used despite Franz-Willing's links to the right-wing extremist camp".
12. ↑ Hellmuth Auerbach: Hitler's political apprenticeship and the Munich Society 1919–1923 (PDF; 6.7 MB). In: VfZ 1977, p. 11 (fn. 37): “With all the merits of the early Hitler research , which Franz-Willing and Maser, through their hard work, an initial clarification of the party history on the basis of the available files and the like. a. Have acquired documents, both works are still strongly dependent on the National Socialist self-portrayals, the former in its clearly apologetic tendency, the latter due to its often uncritical reference to Mein Kampf and others. a. Statements by Hitler. In addition, the more recent research Maser has had to prove frequent unreliability in the details; ... "