Gylfiliten-Guild

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The Gylfiliten-Gilde (sometimes just referred to as the Gylfiliten ) is a neo-pagan religious community with an ariosophical orientation that originated in Krefeld around 1976 . The association's newsletter was called Odrörir , derived from the Skaldenmet - the rebirth of the Germanic religion . There has been no evidence of community activity since the late 1990s.

history

The Gylfiliten were founded in 1976 by Wolfgang Kantelberg ( pseudonym : "Brother Wali") as a spin-off from the largest German association of Teutons, the Goden . Kantelberg was a member of the NPD in the 1960s , but resigned because it was “too left” for him, then joined the resistance campaign and then became a member of the People's Socialist Movement in Germany / Labor Party . For the community, Kantelberg developed a cultic secret language, which is based on old German language forms and is called "Diutisk".

Content profile

The Gylfiliten are named after the mythical Scandinavian King Gylfi and describe themselves as a religious association that orient their lives "according to the teachings of the Edden ". The Gylfiliten-Gilde cultivates a Germanic neo-paganism with strong echoes of National Socialist ideas such as the blood-and-soil ideology and racism . Jews , Jehovah's Witnesses , Freemasons and others are not allowed to join the community. Adolf Hitler is venerated as a saint who "demonstrably prevented" a communist world dictatorship. Together with Arminius and the namesake Gylfi, he is included in the list of those killed in battle who live on in Walhalla . The community invokes a historical racist image of Teutons based on ethnic organizations before 1933. The Judeo - Christian tradition with its monotheism and egalitarianism is categorically rejected.

classification

Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene assigns the Gylfiliten to the ethnic-religious groups that combine ariosophic, German-believing and Neo-Germanic ideas in different ways. The Gylfiliten thus combined Nordic mythological ideas such as Ragnarök with Buddhist elements and, according to Hoyningen-Huene, “other esoteric ideas, such as” Hanns Hörbiger's para-scientific theory of world ice .

Hugo Stamm classifies the Gylfiliten as a neo-pagan religious movement. He locates Kantelberg's group as part of a movement of neo-pagan groups that have increasingly turned to astrology and other esotericism .

literature

Documentation

  • Martin Papirowski, Klaus Schellschmidt: From the series “Esoteric Today”: Wotan's return . Mundus, 1990 (45 min)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Freund : Brown magic? Occultism, New Age and National Socialism. Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85452-271-1 , p. 183.
  2. ↑ René founder: Germanic (new) paganism in Germany. Origin, structure and system of symbols of an alternative religious field (= PeriLog. Vol. 2). Logos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8325-2106-6 , p. 96.
  3. ↑ Hugo Stamm : Under the spell of the Maya calendar. End time hysteria in sects and esotericism. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2012, ISBN 978-3-579-06674-5 , p. 160 and Reimar Oltmanns : From Germany - red wine, runes, right-wing radicals. In: Stern , May 6, 1976.
  4. ^ Rainer Fromm : On the right edge. Lexicon of right-wing radicalism. With contributions by Barbara Kernbach and Hans-Gerd Jaschke . 2nd updated edition. Schüren, Marburg et al. 1994, ISBN 3-89472-104-9 , p. 101 f. and Reimar Oltmanns: From Germany - red wine, runes, right-wing radicals. In: Stern , May 6, 1976.
  5. ↑ Hugo Stamm: Under the spell of the Maya calendar. End time hysteria in sects and esotericism. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2012, ISBN 978-3-579-06674-5 , p. 160.
  6. ^ Rainer Fromm: On the right edge. Lexicon of right-wing radicalism. With contributions by Barbara Kernbach and Hans-Gerd Jaschke. 2nd updated edition. Schüren, Marburg et al. 1994, ISBN 3-89472-104-9 , p. 102.
  7. ↑ Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene: Religiosity in right-wing extremist youths (= religion and biography. Vol. 7). LIT-Verlag, Münster et al. 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6327-1 , p. 233 .
  8. ↑ René founder: Germanic (new) paganism in Germany. Origin, structure and system of symbols of an alternative religious field (= PeriLog. Vol. 2). Logos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8325-2106-6 , p. 24.
  9. ↑ Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene: Religiosity in right-wing extremist youths (= religion and biography. Vol. 7). LIT-Verlag, Münster et al. 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6327-1 , p. 62 f.
  10. ↑ Hugo Stamm: Under the spell of the Maya calendar. End time hysteria in sects and esotericism. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2012, ISBN 978-3-579-06674-5 , p. 160.