Guglmen

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Depiction of Guglmanns at the funeral procession of King Ludwig II.

The Guglmänner (also Cowl men were) in the original sense of the word accompanying a funeral procession (see below under "Historical"). Since around the end of the 1990s, this has usually meant a Bavarian secret society whose members see themselves as guardians of the monarchy and contribute to the survival of the conspiracy theories and legends about the death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1886. In public appearances, based on a tradition at the burials of the Bavarian kings , they wear a black robe with a hood that completely covers their heads, a Gugl, similar to the participants in processions in Spain . With reference to the deceased Media vita in morte sumus , her motto is : "In the midst of life we ​​are surrounded by death."

The Guglmänner also demanded that there should be Bavarian euro coins on which King Ludwig II is depicted instead of the federal eagle , as this is a Prussian symbol.

The Guglmanns attracted attention in June 1999 on the 113th anniversary of Ludwig II's death when they marched through the streets of Munich in their robes and with torches crossed in front of their chests, despite the ban on masking . The Guglmanns also aroused divided interest when, on December 31, 1998, in full disguise, they demonstrated against the performance of the play Ludwig II - The Complete Truth by Bavarian cabaret artist Georg Ringsgwandl in front of the Munich Kammerspiele and thus caricatured the consistent application of constitutional democratic laws.

The "modern" Guglmanns were probably grouped in 1998 on the 112th anniversary of the death of King Ludwig II and are ultimately the logical continuation of the coalition founded by King Ludwig II , a royal secret society whose task it was to keep the press secret from public opinion to monitor the king, to suppress hostile people and associations, to act against the spirit of the modern age (abolition of the monarchy) and finally to be a kind of bodyguard for the king. A small, narrow circle of Guglmen tries to attract public attention through imaginative and sometimes deliberately polemical demands. Through this media presence they want to present their theory of the murder of Ludwig II by the Prussian secret service to a broad audience.

The Guglmänner received support from the Bavarian State Exhibition Götterdämmerung on Herrenchiemsee, in which the three hypotheses suicide, accident and murder were presented again. The exhibition invited visitors to form their own opinion about what actually happened on the fateful night at Lake Starnberg. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the death of King Ludwig II, the Guglmanns demanded that the state exhibition be made permanent.

Historical

As early as the 14th century, penitents covered themselves from head to toe, leaving only a peephole free for the eyes. The origin of this disguise was a ban by the Pope, which forbade public penance. In the High Middle Ages , the penitential robes from Italy and Spain were copied as mourning clothing. The deeper the mourning, the more veiled the face of the participants of the funeral procession . The wealthier a deceased was during his lifetime, the more hooded people were called up by his relatives for the funeral escort to the cemetery. It was customary to hire begging monks or members of the third order for a small fee. The term "Gugl" or " Gugel " developed in the High Middle Ages and represented a fashionable headgear at the time. But other old German terms such as the Butzemann known from the nursery rhyme, the Butzenmann or hooded man, are linked to the fashion of headgear. The constitution of the Kingdom of Bavaria of 1818 laid down the composition of a funeral conduit for deceased monarchs . The funeral procession of the deceased was accompanied by his servants, members of the royal family, the government and the military . The wagon on which the coffin of the corpse was laid out was always preceded by 25 Guglmen. According to presumptions, this enabled the deceased's simple domestic staff to take part in the solemn procession officially and undetected by the Gugl, despite their low status. The Guglmen wore crossed candles and the deceased's coat of arms. When Ludwig III. von Bayern and his wife Maria Therese were buried in Munich on November 5, 1921, another mourning ceremony took place as in the times of the monarchy, including the traditional "procession" of the Guglmanns.

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  1. ↑ Portrait of the king on the euro coins. In: guglmann.de. June 2001. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Blasphemy. In: guglmann.de. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ Bavarian history (s) 09/2011: An empty throne room. In: volkverlag.de. June 17, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Götterdämmerung. King Ludwig II and his time - Bavarian State Exhibition 2011. In: hdbg.eu. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ Constitutional document for the Kingdom of Bavaria (1818). In: verfassungen.de. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Dieter J. Weiß: Burial of Ludwig III., Munich, November 5, 1921. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns . May 11, 2006. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Photography: Gugelmen pass Odeonsplatz in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon in the funeral procession for the Bavarian royal couple