Social Revolutionary Nationalists Group
The Group Social Revolutionary Nationalists (GSRN) was a group of the national revolutionary spectrum at the time of the Weimar Republic , which was founded in the summer of 1930 by the Berlin journalist Karl Otto Paetel .
ideology
In the summer of 1930 the GSRN published a manifesto with the title Social Revolutionary Nationalism , in which its political guidelines became visible in individual articles and later again like theses. The group recognized the nation as "ultimate political asset," the people and socialism . This would have to take place on the one hand as a “mental transformation”, but also with the “nationalization of all large and medium-sized enterprises”. The group expressly committed itself to the “ class struggle of the oppressed”, to the alliance with the Soviet Union and all “oppressed classes and nations”.
history
Arose out of disappointment with the NSDAP's course, which they regarded as “ fascist ” and “bourgeois” , developed especially after Hitler's break with Otto Strasser in some circles of the Bundestag youth , but especially among young nationalists around magazines like Die Kommenden ( whose editor-in-chief Paetel was until the late summer of 1930) and Die Tat more and more a political stance that emphasized the " Bolshevik " more than previous groups in the national revolutionary or national Bolshevik spectrum .
If the group, which never had more than a few hundred members, assumed that it would be able to unite young, non-party nationalists with “left” and after Strasser's break with Hitler disappointed National Socialists, their ideas changed after the KPD's declaration “on national and social Liberation of the German People ”, which was submitted by the KPD on August 25, 1930. Now the GSRN saw points of contact between their policy and that of the KPD. Paetel spoke of going “shoulder to shoulder” with the “revolutionary proletariat - with the KPD” in order to achieve a “socialist” revolution , the repeal of the Versailles Treaty and the Young Plan, and a strong bond between Germany and the East.
After Paetel's departure from the editorial team of the magazine Die Kommenden , he founded his own platform for the GSRN: the magazine Die Sozialistische Nation , which appeared from January 1931 to January 1933. Noteworthy, for example, was a survey that Paetel carried out in the summer of 1931 among the most important heads of the independent right on the question of their position in the event of a war of intervention against the Soviet Union. These answers, almost unanimously against such a war, were published and discussed. In the 1932 presidential election , Die Sozialistische Nation recommended the election of the communist candidate Ernst Thalmann . At times the magazine resembled an open platform, correspondence and discussions between Paetel, Gollong, Grosse, Bodo Uhse etc. on the one hand with Boris Goldenberg ( KPO ) or Wolfgang Abendroth (Free Socialist Youth) on the other are frequent, especially in 1931 Find stapling.
Despite the fact that their positions were partially close to those of the KPD, the group tried not to be taken over by the KPD, but also not to go back to the National Socialist camp. In addition to discussion events and participation in the Kampfbund against fascism , her work was largely journalistic. At the beginning of 1933, Paetel finished his National Bolshevik Manifesto , in which he spoke of the establishment of a national Bolshevik party, which should stand for election with Claus Heim and Ernst Niekisch . Hitler's " seizure of power " put an immediate end to the publication of The Socialist Nation and the existence of the GSRN. Paetel subsequently tried to “form cells” within the Hitler Youth and the SA , but fled Berlin in 1935.
reception
Louis Dupeux rates the group as one of the theoretically clearest and most influential in the national revolutionary spectrum of the Weimar Republic. Contemporary witnesses such as Leopold Schwarzschild and Kurt Hiller dealt with the GSRN in articles. Due to their contacts to the entire spectrum of the national revolutionary movement, their roots in the youth movement and the open discussions with personalities from the left spectrum (e.g. Ernst Toller), they are considered to be one of the most influential groups in the national Bolshevik camp.
Representatives of today's New Right refer to this ideology as part of the cross-front strategy and take up its ideas.
literature
- Louis Dupeux: National Bolshevism in Germany 1919–1933 . Beck, Munich 1985.
- Herbert Crüger: Secret times . Ch. Links, Berlin 1990.
- Karl Otto Paetel : Journey without time . Heintz, 1982.
- Karl Otto Paetel: National Bolshevism and National Revolutionary Movements in Germany . Verlag Siegfried Bublies, Schnellbach 1999, ISBN 3-926584-49-1 .
- Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf : National Bolshevism in Germany 1918–1933 . Ullstein, 1972.
- Journal DIE SOCIALISTISCHE NATION, volumes 1931–1932.
- Karl Otto Paetel: Social Revolutionary Nationalism . Reprint at Helios, 1986.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathias Brodkorb 2009 in Endstation Rechts , accessed December 28, 2013