Heinrich Wolf (Author)

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Heinrich Wolf (born May 28, 1858 in Duisburg , † January 21, 1942 in Düsseldorf ) was a German writer .

Life

Heinrich Wolf studied history and received his doctorate in 1881 from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After completing his doctorate, he taught as a high school professor. He was on the board of the Pan-German Association and from 1919 to 1922 in the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund one of the leading speakers at cultural-political meetings. Armin Mohler attributes him to the "folk system builders of the 20s".

In his writings, Wolf asserted that the Germans had an intellectual and cultural superiority over the French, but at the same time he was strongly influenced by the French Arthur de Gobineau , who was particularly well received in Germany. Wolf represented the German nationalist demand for a nation-state inhabited only by one race, by one people in the narrowest sense of the word. He also published a large number of anti-Semitic writings, some of which were also used in teaching during the Nazi era . Based on Heinrich Claß's writing “If I were the Kaiser”, the manifesto of the Schutz- und Trutzbund, Wolf's central title was “If I were Minister of Culture!”.

Heinrich Wolf claimed in 1921 that the "arch enemy England", the British, had 26,600 women and children starved to death during the Boer War .

His hostility to Jews was only partly based on Christianity, but he repeatedly referred to neo-apocryphal gospels.

Already during the First World War he appeared in the German public with far-reaching demands for annexation of Russia, Belgium and France. In a lecture entitled National Political Egoism in 1916, with a view to a future German eastern border, he had called for "the Baltic region, Lithuania and large parts of Poland" as "the necessary settlement land" for a future victorious German Empire and at least indicated the cession of Ukrainian areas to Germany. He also propagated the expansion of Germany “from Hamburg to the Indian Ocean” as a worthwhile and feasible German war goal.

In 1940 Heinrich Wolf was retired. He died on January 21, 1942 in Düsseldorf.

After the end of the war, over a dozen of his books were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR .

Fonts

  • Myth, legend, fairy tale . Voss, Düsseldorf 1896 ( digitized version )
  • Applied history . Verlag Weicher, Leipzig 1920 ff.
    • Vol. 1 An education for political thinking and will .
    • Vol. 2 History of the Catholic State Idea. Applied Church History . 1936
    • Vol. 3 Cultural history in myth, legend, poetry. Applied Mythology .
    • Vol. 4 World History of Lies . 1937
    • Vol. 5 Applied Racial Studies. World history on a biological basis . 1938
    • Vol. 6 Cultural history of the revolutions and the right to resist
  • A Christian National Socialist watches church history . Verlag Kommende Kirche, Bremen 1939.
  • German history. Introduction to understanding our patriotic history . Meyer, Hanover 1921
  • German history. A fight against Asia and half-Asia . Weicher, Leipzig 1920
  • History of the Catholic state idea ("Applied history; Bd. 2). Publishing house for holistic research and culture, Viöl / Nordfriesland 1993, ISBN 3-927933-29-5 (reprint of the Leipzig 1939 edition).
  • Cultural tragedies of the peoples of the Nordic race. Old Testament bans . Verlag Deutscher Christen, Weimar 1939.
  • Weltgeschichte der Luege ("Angewandte Geschichte; Bd. 4). Archive Edition, Struckum 1989, ISBN 3-922314-84-8 (reprint of the Leipzig 1937 edition).
  • How we Germans discovered ourselves . Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1933.

literature

  • Joseph Kürschner : German Scholars Calendar 1940/41, Volume II, p. 1304
  • Walter Jung: Ideological prerequisites, contents and goals of foreign policy programs and propaganda in the German-Volkish movement in the early years of the Weimar Republic - The example of the German-Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . Dissertation, Göttingen 2000 ( online )

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Wolf  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus. The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 388, note 43. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .
  2. ^ Armin Mohler, Karlheinz Weißmann: The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918-1932. 6th edition (2005)
  3. ↑ Wolf, Heinrich: If I were Minister of Education! Leipzig 1919, p. 57.
  4. ^ Wolf, Heinrich: German history. An introduction to understanding our patriotic history. Hanover 1921. p. 375.
  5. ^ Wolf, Deutsche Geschichte, p. 373.
  6. ^ Wolf, Deutsche Geschichte, p. 378.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-w.html
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-w.html
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1942
Place of death Dusseldorf