Hofgeismarer Kreis (Young Socialists)

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The Hofgeismarer circle was from 1923 bis 1926 a group of nationalist Young Socialists .

history

It was founded on Easter 1923 - under the impression of the Belgian-French occupation of the Ruhr - on a young socialist day in Hofgeismar . After this first conference, a “ Hanoverian Circle ” emerged as a contrast to it. The Hofgeismar Circle turned against Marxist internationalism and strove for socialism within the national framework .

At the end of 1924 Ernst Niekisch came into close contact with the circle at times, but when he was expelled from the party in 1926 by the Marxist wing, only the two Dortmunders Benedikt Obermayr and Heinz Baumeister followed him . Niekisch joined the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany (ASPD), as did August Winnig .

Other well-known participants in the 1923 conference under the motto “Service to the people and the state” were: Franz Osterroth and August Rathmann from the Rhine / Ruhr area, Alma de l'Aigle , Gustav Dahrendorf and Theodor Haubach from Hamburg and Walther G. Oschilewski , Otto Bach and Robert Keller from Berlin. Well-known socialist journalists and scientists such as Hermann Heller , Gustav Radbruch , Eduard Heimann , Hugo Sinzheimer , Gustav Warburg and Heinrich and Gustav Deist spoke to them . In August 1924, the consistent Marxists separated and formed the Hanover working group.

Other names in connection with the circle are Werner Jacobi , Walter Kolb , Carlo Mierendorff , Fritz Steinhoff and Karl Bröger . The national revolutionary and later historian of national Bolshevism Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf names Artur Zickler and Hans von Eckhardt from Hamburg, along with Niekisch, as extreme ideologues of the circle.

According to Peter Cardorff, the circle dissolved in 1926 in order to keep open the possibility of continuing to participate in the social democratic movement. The emerging right-wing activist wing of the party is to be assessed as a continuation of the Hofgeismar circle in terms of content and personnel. This wing of the party organized itself from 1930 onwards around the magazine Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus . a. Paul Tillich and August Rathmann belonged. Well-known personalities such as Henrik de Man and Carlo Mierendorff were on the journal's editorial board.

Recent past

“Hofgeismarer Kreis” was the name of a German national, right-wing radical group within the SPD founded in 1992, consciously following the nationalist tradition of the Hofgeismarer Kreis . It was founded on April 11, 1992 by a few dozen young SPD members at Windischleuba Castle in Thuringia. Leading the way were the then Leipzig Juso chairman and Junge Freiheit author Sascha Jung , Bernd Rabehl and Tilman Fichter . In addition to Jung, Bernhard Knappstein, then chairman of the NPD- affiliated Junge Landsmannschaft East Prussia and member of the Cologne fraternity Germania, was one of the leaders of the Hofgeismar circle. In 1996 the anti-fascist press archive and education center Berlin estimated the number of members at around 200.

After numerous protests from various Jusos and SPD bodies, the party pronounced a one-year ban on Jung. Due to his membership in the Munich fraternity Danubia , he was expelled from the SPD in 2006, whereby a proper party court process did not take place, but rather he was deleted from the list of members. He sued against it and won the court of appeal before the LG Berlin. Shortly thereafter, in June 2007, he announced his departure and justified this with an “adjustment course towards Antifa”. In 2001 the Leipzig SPD distanced itself from the Hofgeismarer Kreis der Jusos, founded in 1992, and asked its members to leave the association. Otherwise party proceedings threatened. This affected Heiko Oßwald and Harald Heinze , among others . Both followed the request. Heinze was suspended for one year and later became active again in local politics for the SPD.

literature

  • Peter Kratz: Right comrades. Neoconservatism in the SPD. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88520-552-1 .
  • Michael Rudloff (Ed.): Social Democracy and Nation. The Hofgeismarkreis in the Weimar Republic and its aftermath. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-86077-261-9 .
  • Stefan Vogt: National Socialism and Social Democracy. The Social Democratic Young Rights 1918–1945. Dietz, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-8012-4161-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Brandt : Patriotic journeymen? - The attitude of the German Social Democrats to the national question since the formation of the party in the 19th century. (2001) In: Social Movement and Political Emancipation. Dietz, Bonn 2008, pp. 385-401, on p. 390.
  2. ↑ Manfred Behrend: Review of Michael Pittwald: Ernst Niekisch. Völkisch socialism, national revolution, German final empire . Website glasnost.de . Retrieved September 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Otto Ernst Schüddekopf: National Bolshevism in Germany 1918–1933. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1972, p. 369 and especially p. 534.
  4. ^ Otto Ernst Schüddekopf: National Bolshevism in Germany 1918–1933. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1972, pp. 146–152.
  5. ↑ Peter Cardorff: Studies on Irrationalism and Rationalism in the Socialist Movement. About access to socialist action . Hamburg 1980, p. 86.
  6. ↑ a b c Profile: Hofgeismar Circle of Young Socialists in Germany. Antifascist Press Archive and Education Center Berlin , 1996, accessed on October 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Steven Heimlich: Historical revisionism as an instrument of the "new right" using the example of the 1968 movement. Master's thesis, University of Oldenburg 2008, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Jan Bielicki: "We want to get rid of him." Trial of right-wing extremist member  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sueddeutsche.de In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 16, 2007. Accessed September 21, 2011.
  9. ↑ http://www.akademische-freiheit.de/Archiv/austritt.html
  10. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung , Leipzig edition, December 20, 2000.
  11. ↑ Manuel Seitenbecher: Mahler, Maschke & Co .: Right thinking in the 1968 movement? Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 313 ( reading sample ).