Karl Rohm

Karl Rohm (born January 13, 1873 in Giengen an der Brenz , † January 27, 1948 in Lorch ) was a German author and publisher .

Life

Rohm was one of the most influential publishers for life reform in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. His publishing house, which he founded in 1898, published numerous brochures and books as well as various magazines, including Life Traces (January 1900 to 1908), Leaves for Christian Mysticism (since 1904), Leaves for the Care of Higher Life (1903 to probably 1907) , The Lodge and The Lighthouse .

He published about a thousand titles on subjects of theosophy , philosophy of religion , freemasonry , occultism , astrology , mysticism and life reform . The place of publication was initially Stuttgart , from April to November 1901 Amden in Switzerland, from December 1901 Lorch . The publisher's authors included a. Demeter Georgievitz-Weitzer (pseudonym GW Surya ), Emanuel Swedenborg , Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling . The Monte Verità font is significant as a historical source . Truth without poetry by Ida Hofmann-Oedenkoven (1906). It offers a detailed report on the foundation and the first years of the reformed settlement Monte Verità in Ascona. The Lorcher Astrological Calendar , which was published from 1919 to 1991, has become famous .

In the First World War Rohm was a soldier. In the early 1920s he published some political, German national writings. There are individual anti-Jewish titles such as What is Jewish Spirit? and The Court Banker by John Retcliffe .

Rohm was the publisher of the Lorcher Blatt Völkischer Herold ("weekly paper for patriotic politics and economics"), founded in 1924, and head of the Patriotic Volksbund, which is related to Erich Ludendorff and has been a corporate member of the DVFP since the end of 1925 .

Karl Rohm was a member of the NSDAP from 1933 . After the Röhm putsch , he distanced himself from Hitler and his party program. In 1941, many of his astrological and occult writings were confiscated; the following year he was expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

Publishing line (examples)

• Albrecht Hoffmann: Rome, Judah and us. Lecture. Series: Speeches from völkisch times, 3rd held in the Vaterländischer Volksbund in Tübingen on February 26, 1924. Published 1924
• Christoph Weiß: "Healed from Jewish Socialism!" My German work brothers and sisters for clarification. 1920
• FK Steinberger: Esoteric of the West: Guide to new humanity. 1953

Works in own publishing house

• The illusion of Annie Besant and other wisps of the Theosophical Society . 1916
• For Fidus ' 50th birthday . In: The lighthouse , 13, Sept./Oct. 1918, p. 15
• The abolition of interest is the only possibility to prevent the eternal enslavement of Germany and to initiate the economic rebirth . 1919
• The national bankruptcy in connection with the abolition of the interest rate can save Germany . 1919
• Christoph Friedrich Landbeck. A memorial stone by Karl Rohm . 1921
• Master Fidus. The painter of the German soul , in: Lorcher Astrological Calendar for the year 1936, p. 110f

Editing

• as "main editor": the light path. Sheets for the realization of the purpose of existence and for the harmonious design of life.

literature

• Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: The Occult Roots of National Socialism. Graz 1997 (p. 31)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Rohm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Steiner 1920 on Karl Rohm and Elisabeth Metzdorf-Teschner Excerpt from a lecture by Rudolf Steiner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ the publisher existed longer; verifiable at least until 1982
2. ↑ Bärbel Dusik and Klaus A. Lankheit with the assistance of Christian Hartmann (eds.): Hitler. Speeches, writings, orders . Volume 3, Between the Reichstag elections July 1928 - September 1930, Part 1, July 1928 - February 1929. Saur, Munich 1994, p. 347, FN. 18th
3. ↑ Manfred Schramm: City and monastery Lorch under National Socialism. “Before memories fade ...” Geschichtswerkstatt Lorch, Lorch 2004, p. 126. cf. also
4. ↑ I want to talk to you about this conversion death today: about the agony that our German soul has to fight with the demonic dragon of the Jewish-Roman spirit , and how the blade of the dragon draw ever closer and closer to it, the poisonous breath of his Breath of fire fouls them more and more. If there is horror in my speech, I cannot change it. What I see growing out of the dark womb of old days are terrible visions. P. 4
5. ↑ About Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , the Theosophical Society, Annie Besant and Rudolf Steiner
6. ^ Renatus-Verlag, Lorch. Example from Volume 5, 1936, Issues 10 & 12: Titelillustr. from Fidus. Karl du Prel : Justinus Kerner and the seer of Prevorst ; Josef Peter: Lessons from the beyond ; Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub : Swedenborg . Interpretation of shape and current research; Richard Richter: The danger of a decline in the birth rate and how to overcome it. - From Jg. 7, 1938, H. 1 - 5: Adolf Raff: In the areas of intellectual telepathy ; Willy Schrödter: On the original antithesis (dualism) in the teaching of Jesus; Gottfried Palm: The stake in the flesh or: The guardian of the threshold; Carl du Prel: The astral body ; Bernhard Richter: The difference between healing magnetism and hypnotism ; JB Kerning : The reflection of God's love in man; Willy Reichel: Magnetism and Hypnotism. - From Volume 9, 1940, Issues 1 & 2: Paul Heinrich Richter: Be you a truly German character; Max Henker: world change through religious change; Erich Baumeister: Can astrology serve genealogy and genealogy? - From vol. 10, 1941: Ernst Tiede: The tragedy of an empire. The way of Napoleon III; Martin Hartmann: Hygiene and Tobacco; Friedrich Gerstäcker : The dead highway taker. A story
7. ^ Rohm visited English theosophists in London; Publishing products are often reprints by Jakob Böhme , Johann Georg Hamann , Jung-Stilling and Alfred Martin Oppel (AMO), translations of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novels; Works by contemporary occultists. From the English