Imperium Germanicum

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Imperium Germanicum (also: Imperium Teutonicum ) was a term used by intellectual rights during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich .

Origin and development of the term

The term was coined by Oswald Spengler based on the Roman Empire (Imperium Romanum) during the First World War . It later represented a conservative equivalent to the "Greater Germanic Empire" of the National Socialists .

On July 14, 1915, Spengler wrote to Hans Klöres:

“Let's not forget that the Imperium Romanum was just an unscrupulous business venture and the great Romans were all speculators. And yet, beauty is above Romance. I wish to be able to do a lot for the 'Imperium Germanicum' of the future. The enormous dimensions ennoble everything that looks miserable in small circumstances. "

In his 1926 work, Aufmarsch des Nationalismus , Friedrich Georg Jünger wrote :

“There is nothing more important, nothing more urgent than to invigorate the imperialist will everywhere, to steel it and make it ready for action. Because every fight that will be waged by us tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is about existence. The war between two great nations is no longer a local event as it was in 1866 and 1870. It is the outcome of the rulership of the earth. "

Evaluation in research

The historian Wolfram Wette believes that these "imperialist war dreams" of the representatives of " soldier nationalism " within the conservative revolution were in no way inferior to Hitler's ideas of war and paved the way for the National Socialists.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Oswald Spengler: Letters 1913-36 . In collaboration m. Manfred Schröter ed. v. Anton M. Koktanek. CH Beck , Munich 1963, p. 44.
  2. ^ Friedrich Georg Jünger: Deployment of nationalism . 2nd edition Vormarsch, Berlin 1928, p. 61.