Jomsburg (magazine)

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Jomsburg - peoples and states in Eastern and Northern Europe
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description National Socialist journal
Area of ​​Expertise Eastern research
language German
publishing company S. Hirzel Verlag
First edition 1937
attitude 1944
Frequency of publication quarterly
editor Johannes Papritz , Wilhelm Koppe
ZDB 400083-3

Jomsburg - Peoples and States in Eastern and Northern Europe was a National Socialist journal with folk history that was published as a quarterly issue by the Hirzel Verlag in Leipzig between 1937 and 1942 and by the Publikationsstelle Berlin-Dahlem (PuSte Dahlem), namely by Johannes Papritz and Wilhelm Koppe in conjunction with Hermann Aubin , Albert Brackmann , Theodor Oberländer and Fritz Rörig and others. In 1944 the magazine was discontinued due to the war situation. The already printed edition of 1943 burned in an air raid on Leipzig. The name Jomsburg programmatically referred to a Viking settlement that was believed to be the legendary city of Vineta . Jomsburg "was considered the journalistic flagship of the new German East research ."

Emergence

The magazine was initiated in 1935 by Brackmann and Aubin. The immediate cause was the appearance of the Polish magazine Baltic Countries , which Brackmann and Aubin feared that it could result in an influential anti-German historical magazine. In 1936, the PuSte Dahlem developed a concept together with the North-East German Research Association (NOFG), while the Reich Ministry of the Interior took over the printing costs. The volume of an annual volume was approx. 550 pages in peacetime and later had to be reduced to less than 340 pages due to the war. The magazine did not get as widespread circulation as the editors had hoped.

Content and development

The main focus was on the historical literature of the Baltic countries and Poland , whose alleged liberal , Marxist , Jewish and anti-German tendencies should be combated. They were also interested in including scientists from the Scandinavian countries, for example . The tone was correspondingly sharp towards Poland and cautious towards the Nordic countries.

In Poland was Jomsburg soon banned. Contributions from foreign authors could only be acquired to a limited extent. Even if it was not officially assigned to the institute, the journal can be counted among the publications of the PuSte Dahlem due to the personal connections. The contributions came primarily from employees of the PuSte and advisory boards of the NOFG, or from authors who worked in one form or another in Brackmann's environment, such as Theodor Schieder or Peter-Heinz Seraphim . Although the claim to scientific work was raised, the editors also ensured that the authors adhered to the political guidelines. Purely scientific work primarily served to disguise the propaganda character of the magazine. Some works served to counteract articles in the magazine Baltic and Scandinavian Countries .

Until the German invasion of Poland in 1939 , articles on Poland that emphasized the German element in order to legitimize political claims predominated. In a similar way, the German influence in the Baltic States was emphasized, anti-Russian historical images developed - Otto Scheel, for example, described the USSR as the "strangling angel of free Aryan Europe" - and the similarities between Scandinavia and Germany emphasized. Anti-Semitic and racist articles were published less often, but were in accordance with the National Socialist racial ideology .

The historian Jörg Wöllhaf sums up that the Jomsburg "represented a forum for the programmatic ideas of the NOFG and PuSte, an instrumentalization by politics took place to a large extent and willingly and scientific methods had to be subordinate to this maxim."

literature

  • Jörg Wöllhaf: Jomsburg - peoples and states in Eastern and Northern Europe. In: Ingo Haar , Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. People - institutions - research programs - institutions. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11778-7 , pp. 307-312.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingo Haar: Historians in National Socialism. German history and the “Volkstumskampf” in the east (= critical studies on history. 143). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35942-X , p. 298, (also: Halle, Universität, Dissertation, 1998).
  2. ↑ a b Wöllhaf: Jomsburg. In: Haar, Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. 2008, pp. 307-312, here p. 311.