Germanic Faith Community (Géza von Neményi)

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Germanic Faith Community eV
The symbol of the GGG since 1933: Thor's hammer in front of a golden sun cross on a blue background
Club data
Founded: 1991
Religion : Germanic neo-paganism (paganism)
Board: Catrin Wildgrube (2004)
Website: germanische-glaubens-gemeinschaft.de

The Germanic Faith Community (GGG) is a Germanic-pagan religious association founded in 1991 , which sees itself as the successor of the Germanic Faith Community founded by the painter and poet Ludwig Fahrenkrog . As a symbol she uses Thor's hammer in front of a golden sun cross on a blue background.

The association, registered in 1991 by Géza von Neményi in Berlin, wants to remain in the tradition of the previous organization without tying into its ethnic foundations. The association documents as well as the archive of the dissolved association come from its last chairman Ludwig Dessel and the Friends of Ludwig Fahrenkrog . Von Neményi and his group lay claim to the Europe-wide leadership of the pagan religious communities, but could not assert themselves. The number of members is not announced. The members live mainly in Berlin .

Teaching

The GGG tries to reconstruct and relive the pagan gods religion as faithfully as possible from high mediaeval literary sources such as Edda , sagas of western Nordic provenance as well as from runic inscriptions, but also from fairy tales, folk songs, legends of more recent periods - thus the popular sources and customs . With the inclusion of scientific sources, especially historical, Germanic and Scandinavian Medieval studies and general religious studies, a polytheistic belief, rite and cult based on the historical, extinct " religion of the Germanic peoples ", defined by the community, is to be developed.

In contrast to other pagan associations in Germany, the new GGG claims to have a formulated uniform teaching with priests and shrines. The Edda is regarded by its followers as a collection of sacred myths from the gods and as the most important source of revelation. She calls her religion "old paganism" in order to differentiate it from neo-paganism . B. to clarify the eldaring . The GGG allegedly distances itself from ariosophy . Geza von Neményi describes ariosophy as a fantasy religion. Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene counts the GGG despite its distance from the ethnic-religious groups and ascribes ariosophical references to it.

Structure and practice

Geza von Neményi founded the Godenrat with another Goden and was elected chairman of the Godenrat (Allsherjargode). The universal jargode is considered the highest priest of Germanic old paganism. He had tried to protect the term old paganism under trademark law, but this was rejected by the German Patent and Trademark Office. There is no trademark protection at the DPMA for general jargon. Under Neményi, the irregularly assembled Godenrat is responsible for religious guidelines. Association issues are clarified by a community council. Significant decisions are to be made on the Allthing by all members present.

The members celebrate annual festivals , life circle festivals and the Allthing at various places of worship . Annual and circle celebrations are not public. Celebrations and rituals should be led by trained priests ( Goden and Gydjas). The training to become a priest includes a "Goden examination" in which the future Goden are tested for their knowledge of the curriculum and practice. Géza von Neményi publishes the GGG members' newsletter Germanic faith .

Foundation and succession

The Germanic Faith Community, registered in 1991 by Géza von Neményi as an association in Berlin, regards itself as the legal successor to the Germanic Faith Community of Ludwig Fahrenkrog.

The community of species - Germanic faith community of nature -appropriate lifestyle , which also claimed the legal succession of the old GGG Fahrenkrogs, led a legal dispute against the GGG with its chairman, the right-wing extremist Jürgen Rieger , on this issue. Both instances decided in favor of Neményi.

In the publication Sekten. Risks and side effects , published by the Senate Department for School, Youth and Sport, Berlin, it also states:

“On the other hand, she [the GGG] explicitly emphasized in a letter to the Petitions Committee of the Berlin House of Representatives in 1995 that the GGG, registered in Berlin in 1991, was not the legal successor to the old GGG Ludwig Fahrenkrogs, but had the purpose of reviving the old association name with a new content . The new GGG has nothing to do with the old GGG, which was deleted in 1964. In 1997 she advertised herself in her flyer as a community that was founded in 1907 by Professor Ludwig Fahrenkrog. "

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literature

  • Stefanie von Schnurbein : God comfort in times of change. New Germanic paganism between New Age and right-wing radicalism. Munich, Claudius Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-532-64003-1 .
  • Rüdiger Sünner : Black Sun. Unleashing and abuse of the myths in National Socialism and right esotericism. 2nd Edition. Freiburg 1999, ISBN 3-451-27186-9 (on the GGG pp. 179-183).
  • Sylvia Siewert: Germanic religion and neo-Germanic paganism (= European university publications , series 23, theology; volume 741), Peter Lang, European publishing house of the sciences, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-631-38338-X .
  • Article Germanic Faith Community (GGG) , in: Churches, Sects, Religions. Religious communities, ideological groups and psycho-organizations in the German-speaking area. A manual founded by Oswald Eggenberger. 7th ed., Ed. by Georg Schmid and Georg Otto Schmid, Theologischer Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-290-17215-5 , p. 429.
  • Germanic Faith Community (ed.): Anniversary edition Germanic Faith , spring 2007.
  • Katrin Riedel: About God and the gods. A comparative study of the neo-pagan Germanic faith community (s) , in: ZRGG 66.3 / 4 (2014), pp. 270–294.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Nils Grübel, Stefan Rademacher: Religion in Berlin. A manual. Weissensee Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 523.
  2. ↑ a b c Stefanie v. Schnurbein: Divine comfort in times of change . Claudius Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3532640031 , p. 44.
  3. ↑ Press release by the Odinic Rites (D) and Eldarings on Géza von Neményis' claim to sole representation, July 18, 2003 ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Controversy about "Heiden-Pope" . Material service of the Protestant Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, 11/03
  5. ↑ Geza von Neményi: Gods, Myths, Annual Festivals. Pagan natural religion. Sigrid Kersken-Canbaz Verlag, Holdenstedt 2004; Geza von Neményi: The roots of Christmas and Easter - Pagan festivals and customs. Sigrid Kersken-Canbaz Verlag, Holdenstedt 2006.
  6. ↑ Stefanie von Schnurbein: God comfort in times of change. Claudius Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-532-64003-1 , p. 41.
  7. ↑ Article GGG on the GGG website, accessed October 29, 2016
  8. ^ Stefanie von Schnurbein: Religion as cultural criticism. New Germanic paganism in the 20th century . Diss. Univ. Frankfurt / Main, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-533-04582-X , p. 144.
  9. ↑ Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene : Religiosity in right-wing extremist youth . Diss., LIT Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2003, ISBN = 3-8258-6327-1.
  10. ↑ Article on the Germanic Faith Community at relinfo.ch
  11. ↑ sects. Risks and side effects , brochure of the Senate Department for School, Youth and Sport, 1997 Berlin, accessed October 29, 2016
  12. ↑ Article about the GGG in a brochure by the Senate Administration for School, Youth and Sport, Berlin, pp. 41–44, here: pp. 41–42. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.religio.de
  13. ^ Website of the GGG , access 2:53 pm, December 16, 2009