Heinz Brauweiler

Heinz Brauweiler (born January 1, 1885 in Mönchengladbach , † 1976 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer, writer and political activist. He should not be confused with the journalist Ernst Brauweiler, who was also acting at the same time .

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Brauweiler was the son of a surveyor . He studied law in Bonn and Erlangen . Since 1903 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ripuaria Bonn . Around 1909 he worked as an editor for the Center Parliament Correspondence and then from 1911 to 1913 as editor-in-chief for the Westdeutsche Volkszeitung in Hagen. In 1913, Brauweiler became editor-in-chief of the Düsseldorfer Tageblatt , which was considered the right-wing organ of the Center Party. In this position, Brauweiler turned against the politics of Matthias Erzberger , as an exponent of the party left. Instead, he pleaded for an increased realignment of the party under conservative auspices.

After the end of the First World War, Brauweiler began to get involved in the young conservative movement, a stream of younger intellectuals who rejected the Weimar state and instead advocated other, elitist, forms of German statehood. As a leading exponent of the concept of estates, Brauweiler first worked in the June club and later in the men's club , and at times he also worked with Max Hildebert Boehm in the Political College , a teaching and training institution of nationally conservative character, which was primarily in the right-wing camp in the first half of the 1920s was quite powerful.

From 1926 to 1930 Brauweiler was the head of the political department of the Front Soldiers' Association Stahlhelm . In this capacity, he was also the editor of the papers for estates structure . From 1930 he advocated cooperation between the Stahlhelm and the Brüning government , but could not get his way with this demand. Instead, he was removed from office by an intrigue of the wing in the Stahlhelm leadership around Vice-Chairman Theodor Duesterberg .

From 1932 to 1933 Brauweiler then taught as a lecturer at the German University of Politics in Berlin. From 1953 to 1962 Brauweiler was managing director of the Catholic Committee in Berlin.

From the end of the 1920s, Brauweiler was ideologically very close to Carl Schmitt , whose ideas for a constitutional reform he propagated in Ring , the magazine of the gentlemen's club.

Brauweiler's estate is now kept in the Mönchengladbach city archive.

Fonts

• German and Romanesque Freemasonry , 1916
• The Estates Movement and Agriculture , 1922.
• Profession and State. Considerations on a new constitution of the German state , 1925.
• About fascism. Critical considerations , five-part series of articles in: Der Ring 1 (1928), H. 34–39.
• Generals in the German Republic , 1932.
• Social Administration , 1937.

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
• Joachim Petzold: pioneer of German fascism. The young conservatives in the Weimar Republic , Cologne 1978.
• Berthold Petzinna: Education for the German lifestyle. Origin and development of the young conservative "ring" circle; 1918–1933 , Berlin 2000.