Institute for the maintenance of German knowledge

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The Institute for the Care of German Knowledge was an Austrian , ethnic and anti-Semitic association.

Creation and management

The Institute for the Maintenance of German Knowledge was founded by Robert Körber in 1924 at the University of Vienna with the participation of Fred Ebert. The institute was headed by Körber, who at that time was also the head of the cultural office of the German student body at the University of Vienna. In addition, Körber held leading positions in the following Viennese organizations: Academic Association for Race Care; Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Science Section; District VIII of the German Student Union; German Society for Race Care; Vienna Society for Race Care; University Section of the Frontline Fighters Association ; Academic Section of the German Gymnastics Federation ; Pan-German Association , local chapter University.

aims

The main task of the Institute for the Maintenance of German Knowledge was “the duty to push back and fight against Judaism”. To this end, mainly public lectures were organized and held, for example 67 lectures in the first three years of the institute's existence, 24 of them by university professors.

Körber writes the following about the institute he founded: “In the midst of this racially chaotic red and Jewish desert in the state and at the universities, the blood-conscious, Greater German-minded academic youth in the Ostmark had stood since 1920. Through the 'Kulturamt [of the German Student Union at the University of Vienna]' founded in 1923 and the 'Institute for the Care of German Knowledge' established in 1924, she preached about German blood feelings and the Nordic racial soul, of state renewal and national unity, of the unification of all Germans in the Reich. "

advancement

At the University of Vienna, the Institute for the Maintenance of German Knowledge was generously supported by a funding committee. The following professors belonged to this funding committee: Otto Reche (honorary chairman), Alfons Dopsch , Karl Gottfried Hugelmann , Max Langer, Richard Meister , Othmar Spann and Gustav Kraitschek .

literature

  • Geisenhainer, Katja (2002). "Race is fate". Otto Reche (1879-1966) - a life as an anthropologist and ethnologist . Leipzig: Evangelical publishing house.
  • Koerber, Robert (1924). The Institute for the Maintenance of German Knowledge. Its origin and development, its goals and tasks . Vienna: Cultural Office of the German Student Union.
  • Körber, Robert (ed.) (1927). Ostmark freedom spirit. Festschrift on the occasion of the 3-year existence of the "Institute for the Maintenance of German Knowledge" . (Third publication of District VIII German Austria of the German Student Union). Vienna: Institute for the maintenance of German knowledge.
  • Koerber, Robert (1939). Race victory in Vienna, the border fortress of the empire . Vienna; Braumüller.
  • Neugebauer, Wolfgang (2005) "The Vienna Society for Race Care and the University of Vienna". In: Gabriel, Heinz Eberhard & Neugebauer, Wolfgang (eds.). Pioneer of Annihilation? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938 . (On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part III). Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. Pp. 53-64.
  • Teschler-Nicola, Maria (2005) “Aspects of Hereditary Biology and the Development of Racial Expertise in Austria until 1938”. In: Gabriel, Heinz Eberhard & Neugebauer, Wolfgang (eds.). Pioneer of Annihilation? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938 . (On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part III). Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. Pp. 99-138.
  • Zoitl, Helge (1992). "Student comes from studying". On the history of the social democratic student movement in Vienna . Vienna / Zurich: Europa Verlag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoitl, Helge (1992). "Student comes from studying". On the history of the social democratic student movement in Vienna . Vienna / Zurich: Europa Verlag. P. 338.
  2. ↑ Helge Zoitl (1992): “Student comes from studying”. On the history of the social democratic student movement in Vienna . Vienna / Zurich: Europa Verlag. P. 336.
  3. ↑ Robert Körber (1939): Rassesieg in Vienna, the border fortress of the Reich , Vienna, Braumüller-Verlag, p. 227.
  4. ↑ Zoitl, Helge (1992). "Student comes from studying". On the history of the social democratic student movement in Vienna . Vienna / Zurich: Europa Verlag. P. 336.