Hohenrain publishing house

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The Hohenrain-Verlag and his predecessor and former parent company, the Grabert Verlag are, or were major publishers of the German right-wing extremism . They emerged from the publishing house of the German Hochschullehrer-Zeitung , which Herbert Grabert founded in Tübingen in 1953 . His son Wigbert Grabert took over the management of the publishing house in 1972 and became the publisher's owner after his father's death in 1978. At the beginning of 2013 he handed over the management of the publishing house to his son Bernhard Grabert , who has since been the sole managing director of Hohenrain-Verlag GmbH .

Since its founding, the publishing complex has mainly distributed literature associated with historical revisionism . Books from the publisher's programs have been confiscated several times for incitement to hatred , insults and vilification of the deceased and / or indexed by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM). In 2012, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg counted Grabert Verlag among the oldest and "most important right-wing extremist publishers in Germany".

history

After 1945, Herbert Grabert initially worked as a lobbyist for university professors who had been dismissed due to their Nazi involvement. In 1953 he founded the publishing house of the German Hochschullehrer-Zeitung , which in the 1950s was one of the most important sales organs founded at that time for right-wing extremist strategies and theories and played down National Socialism .

In 1961 Herbert Grabert published the book Der Erzwe Krieg - The Causes and Creators of the Second World War , which he translated into German , whose US author David L. Hoggan portrayed Poland and Great Britain as the cause of the Second World War to an allegedly peacemaker Adolf Hitler . Grabert thus began to spread right-wing historical revisionism. Hoggan's bestseller contributed significantly to the economic success of his publishing house.

In 1974 he renamed it Grabert Verlag . The temporary publishing director was Karl Epting , who had headed the cultural department of the German Embassy in Paris and the German Institute there from 1940 to 1945 during the Nazi era .

When Wigbert Grabert took over the publishing house in 1978, he changed its orientation, also due to economic considerations, "from the program of the old to the ideology of the new right ". From 1980 to 1983 he belonged to the Thule seminar , which he and his wife co-founded, and published its programmatic text The Immortal Heritage: Alternatives to the Principle of Equality (editor: Pierre Krebs ; co-author: Armin Mohler ). Grabert's collaboration with Pierre Krebs and Alain de Benoist in the 1980s, however, did not have a dominant influence on the publishing program, as the appeal to a non-Christian- pagan tradition rooted in Indo-Europeanism did not gain any greater significance in Germany and such publications were difficult to sell. However, the Grabert Verlag and the associated journal Germany in History and Present (DGG) became important publication organs of the New Right and the French Nouvelle Droite in the 1980s .

Subsidiaries and organizational connections

In 1985, Grabert co-founded Hohenrain Verlag (Tübingen, Zurich, Paris) as a subsidiary of Grabert Verlag for the writings of the Kulturkreis 2000 Foundation, which is related to the Thule Seminar . This represents a similar range of authors and topics. The Grabert publishing complex includes GIE German International Editions GmbH (founded in 1978) and the mail order company Media-Service (founded in 1998), which is managed by Wigbert Grabert's son, as well as the Hoggan Foundation named after David L. Hoggan and the Institute for German Post-war history (IdN) directed by the right-wing extremist multifunctional Rolf Kosiek . Grabert Verlag also owns the Grabert mail order bookstore , which also sells books from other right-wing extremist publishers. Wigbert Grabert also owns the German book group . Its members can obtain the publications of the two publishers at reduced prices under certain conditions. The Euro-Kurier, in which the publisher's innovations are presented, has been published since 1990 .

Herbert Grabert was, Wigbert Grabert, Rolf Kosiek and Walter Staffa are members of the right-wing extremist Witikobund . Wigbert Grabert and Rolf Kosiek are members of the Society for Free Journalism . Wigbert Grabert awarded them the Ulrich von Hutten Medal in 2003 . Rolf Kosiek and Walter Staffa are members of the German Seminar and the German Study Group .

The historical revisionist quarterly magazine Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart (DGG) is also published by Grabert Verlag . It was created in the 1950s as a four-page newsletter for the 131 professor on behalf of the association of non-officiating (ousted) professors and Forschungshilfe e. V. and appeared in the publishing house of the German Hochschullehrer-Zeitung . It developed into a forum for National Socialist scientists, who were denied work at German universities after 1945, in which they sometimes struggled for their rehabilitation, but mostly pursued the old ideas.

Wigbert Grabert has published the magazine quarterly since 1972 due to the expanded range of topics and the larger scope and gave it its current name. Until 1983 it served as the communication organ for the Thule Seminar, founded in 1980. Although it appears in a pseudo-scientific presentation, its individual contributions serve the same subject areas and ideological interpretation patterns as the books of the Grabert and Hohenrain publishers. The spectrum of authors at the DGG ranges from the history revisionist Walter Staffa to Albrecht Jebens and Hans Filbinger to Claus Nordbruch . Publishing director Rolf Kosiek also wrote numerous articles as a permanent author under the pseudonym Rudolf Künast in DGG. In 1991, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, DGG again published the Heidelberg Manifesto . Edition 1/2006 of the DGG was withdrawn.

Publishing program

The thematic focus of the Grabert and Hohenrain Verlag has been right-wing historical revisionism to play down National Socialism, for example by denying or relativizing the Holocaust , the guilt of the Nazi regime in the Second World War and other Nazi crimes.

The publisher's authors include convicted Holocaust deniers like Wilhelm Stuellen , Germar Rudolf (here mostly under the pseudonym "Ernst Gauss") and David Irving, as well as right-wing extremists such as Rolf Kosiek, Sigrid Hunke , Hellmut Diwald , Bernard Willms , Richard Eichler and Ingrid Weckert . But authors like the lawyer Johann Braun have also found their home there.

The publisher also defends National Socialism with apparently only biographical and lexical literature: for example, with the 1986 book by the right-wing extremist Karl Höffkes , Hitler's Political Generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich. A biographical reference work or with the history- falsifying folk lexicon of the Third Reich that appeared in 1994 .

Many publications are directed against globalization , the European unification process, political correctness , immigration to Germany, the Frankfurt School and against the political system of Germany and its representatives. The book The attack. A criticism of the state and society of the 'Berlin Republic' (2003) by Claus Nordbruch, for example, openly propagates the elimination of Germany's democratic constitution.

Another focus is on pseudoscientific publications on prehistory and early history and archeology , with which long-disproved theses from the nationalist movement of the 19th century are renewed or extended: for example, writings by former SS member Jacques de Mahieu with his thesis about Vikings in South America , Writings by Helmut Schrätze or Jochen Wittmann, which, according to the Slavic legend, represent Slavs as East Germans , and writings by Jürgen Spanuth and others who represent the racist theory Ex septentrione lux ('The light from the north') and a “primeval mission from the north “As a research result in order to present the actual doctrine of ' Ex oriente lux ' as a historical lie. This often includes anti-Christian or anti-Semitic polemics that lead to " conspiracy-theoretical assumptions". This offer also includes more recent writings from the field of pseudoscientific chronology criticism , for example by Uwe Topper .

Indexings and Convictions

Federal Court of Justice 1960 - people without leadership

The Federal Court of Justice sentenced the publisher's founder Herbert Grabert to nine months probation in 1960 for disseminating the anti-constitutional writing People Without Leadership by David L. Hoggan and insulting the state with unconstitutional intent.

Indexing 1979 - The Auschwitz Myth

In 1979, Wigbert Grabert published the Holocaust-denying book Der Auschwitz-Mythos by Wilhelm Stuellen. The doctorate was then withdrawn every day. The Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People put his book on its prohibition index in 1982. In 1981 she also banned the book Feuerzeichen - Die Reichskristallnacht by Ingrid Weckert, published by Grabert Verlag , in which she portrayed Jews as instigators of the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938 and thus carried out an anti-Semitic perpetrator-victim reversal.

District Court Tübingen 1989 - How the two world wars were made

In September 1989 the Tübingen District Court sentenced Wigbert Grabert to a fine of DM 10,000 by Wolfgang Seegers for the publication of How the Two World Wars Were Made .

Local court Tübingen 1995 - Wolfsgesellschaft

In January 1995, the Tübingen District Court again sentenced Grabert to a fine of 10,500 DM for allowing xenophobic and inciting statements by publishing and selling Carl-Friedrich Berg's book Wolfsgesellschaft, thereby violating his duty of care as a publisher.

Confiscation 1998 - Hellmut Diwald. His legacy for Germany, his courage for history

In June 1998 the Tübingen District Court left the book Hellmut Diwald published by Rolf-Josef Eibicht in Hohenrain Verlag and distributed by Grabert . His legacy for Germany, his courage to draw in history .

District Court Tübingen 1998 - In the matter of Germany

In July 1998, the Tübingen District Court sentenced Grabert to a fine of 3,000 DM for the book In Matters Germany by Carl-Friedrich Berg, which was published by Hohenrain-Verlag . Until 1998, Grabert had to answer twelve times in court for the content of his publishers' publications.

Indexing - Basics of Contemporary History

He received another heavy fine for publishing the collection foundations of contemporary history by the Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf .

District Court Tübingen 2007 - Germany in the past and present

In 2007 the Tübingen District Court sentenced Wiegbert Grabert to three months ' imprisonment for sedition , which the Regional Court increased to eight months after Grabert's appeal in 2009 and suspended it for three years. Grabert also had to pay 3000 euros to the SOS Children's Villages . The reason was, among other things, the dissemination of a Holocaust denial by the Austrian lawyer Herbert Schaller in an article in the magazine Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart .

District Court Tübingen 2013 - The Second World War. Cause - Background - War Guilt - Consequences

At the beginning of March 2013, the Tübingen District Court sentenced Grabert to eleven months' imprisonment for sedition and to pay 5,000 euros for the association for children with cancer: he had a historical revisionist book by right-wing extremist Helmut Schrätze about the Second World War, in which the murder of 33,000 Jews at Babyn Jar 1941 is denied, relocated. The Federal Testing Agency for Media Harmful to Young People had the book entitled The Second World War. Cause - Background - War guilt - Consequences classified and indicated as harmful to young people as early as 2011. The court collected the publisher's previous proceeds from the sale of this book of over 30,000 euros. In an appeal process that was concluded in August 2014, the judgment of the Tübingen District Court was revised and Grabert was acquitted, as the court could not see any intention to distribute documents with inciting content. In addition, there is nothing in Schröckes' “tendentious book” that “could be criminally relevant”.

Fire damage 2017

On June 26, 2017, a fire broke out in a neighboring building of the publishing house in Tübingen, and the publishing house's warehouse was also seriously affected. In the following period, the book delivery had to be stopped for a longer period. All employees working in shipping were dismissed. As a result of the fire, the December 2017 issue of Germany magazine was temporarily discontinued.

literature

  • Martin Finkenberger, Horst Junginger (ed.): In the service of lies. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) and his publishers . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-932710-76-2 . In this:
  • Martin Finkenberger: "Persecuted" and "Disenfranchised". From advocate of retired university lecturers to right-wing extremist history revisionist. Pp. 69-94.
  • Martin Finkenberger: History revisionists in court. Pp. 125-142.
  • Martin Finkenberger: Herbert Grabert and the "German peasant belief" under National Socialism. In: Yearbook for Folklore 2000 . Würzburg 2000, pp. 51-76.
  • Martin Finkenberger: Herbert Grabert. Religious scholar, revisionist, right-wing extremist. In: Building blocks for the history of the University of Tübingen . Volume 9, University Archives Tübingen 1999, pp. 55-100.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Anton Maegerle : Braune Festschrift for long-serving jubilarians. In: Context: weekly newspaper , issue 187, October 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg : Right-wing extremist publishers independent of organizations in Baden-Württemberg: “Grabert-Verlag” / “Hohenrain-Verlag” ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz-bw.de
  3. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Baden-Wuerttemberg Constitutional Protection Report 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, p. 106)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.verfassungsschutz-bw.de  
  4. ↑ a b Horst Junginger: Paganism and Indo-Germanism as identification elements of the New Right. In: Uwe Puschner, G. Ulrich Großmann: Völkisch und national. Darmstadt 2009, p. 284
  5. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Organized right-wing extremism in Germany after 1945. in: Wilfried Schubarth, Richard Stöss (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. A balance sheet. Series of publications Volume 368 of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, pp. 75 ff.
  6. ^ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic. , Munich 1999, p. 42
  7. ^ Juliane Wetzel : The historical revisionism and the Grabert publishing house. In: Martin Finkenberger, Horst Junginger (Ed.): In the service of lies. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) and his publishers. Aschaffenburg 2004, p. 144.
  8. ↑ Ingo Wiwjorra: " Ex oriente lux" - "Ex septentrione lux". About the conflict between two identity myths. In: Achim Leube / Morton Hegewisch (ed.): Prehistory and National Socialism. Central and Eastern European Prehistory and Early History Research in the years 1933–1945. Studies on the history of science and universities 2 (Heidelberg 2002) 73–106. ISBN 3935025084 .
  9. ↑ a b Blick nach Rechts , November 4, 1998: A fellow traveler of the Nazi regime
  10. ^ Tagblatt, April 29, 2010: Look to the right: Grabert-Verlag in the lecture visor
  11. ↑ redok February 7, 2007: Right-wing extremists / In court: imprisonment for right-wing publishers ( memento of the original from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.redok.de
  12. ↑ Schwäbisches Tagblatt , December 23, 2009: District court found Tübingen right wing publisher responsible for two inflammatory articles
  13. ^ Anton Maegerle (look to the right, March 8, 2013): Prison free on probation ; Raimund Weible ( Südwest Presse , March 7, 2013): publisher convicted of sedition.
  14. ↑ including compensation , Schwäbisches Tagblatt , August 30, 2014, without page (author abbreviation: dhe)
  15. ↑ Hans-Jörg Schweizer: No injuries, but high damage from fire in the Tübingen locksmith's shop . Schwäbisches Tagblatt, June 27, 2017
  16. ↑ Bernhard Grabert: On our own behalf . Euro-Kurier, 03/2017
  17. ↑ Bernhard Grabert: On our own behalf . Euro-Kurier, 01/2018, p. 5.