Conservative today
Conservative Today was a German political bimonthly magazine that appeared from 1969 to 1980 in Bonn . Founded by the former State Secretary Hansjoachim von Rohr , the magazine was published by political scientist Klaus Motschmann from 1972 onwards , before being included in Criticón magazine at the beginning of 1981 .
History and direction
The founding of the conservative today by the former politician ( DNVP / FDP ) and Nazi opponent Hansjoachim von Rohr was essentially initiated by the Frankfurt Round Table , as their press organ the magazine served, among other things. The owner and publisher was the Society for Conservative Journalism in Bonn-Bad Godesberg . After Rohr's death, the Berlin political scientist Klaus Motschmann ( CDU , independent from 1987) took over the role of editor.
The publication was nationally conservative and represented on the one hand - for example in the person of the founder Hannsjoachim von Rohr - the offshoots of the Prussian - agrarian milieu, on the other hand the conservative wing of German Protestantism , which was particularly concentrated in the Evangelical Emergency Community . In contrast to the two-month magazine Criticón by Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing, which was founded almost at the same time, “Conservative Today” was less theoretical and academic and dealt more with practical issues of daily politics and social life. In addition, the more traditional and Christian-oriented course of the magazine stood in a field of tension with the new right- wing thinking of Armin Mohler , who expressly rejected Christianity as the basis of a conservative worldview and significantly shaped the content profile of Criticón in the 1970s and 1980s.
For economic reasons, the magazine was merged with Criticón in 1981 , which was able to further expand its journalistic position as the leading organ of the right-wing conservative camp. Publisher Motschmann became department head at Criticón, which continued to use “Conservative Today” as a subtitle until 2000.
Authors
In the magazine, authors from different orientations within the conservative intellectual milieu had their say, such as Lothar Bossle , Alexander Evertz , Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner , Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn , Hans Maier , Jens Motschmann (brother of the editor), Karl Oettle , Alfred Schickel , Hans Joachim Schoeps , Hans Georg von Studnitz , Hans Sedlmayr and Matthias Walden .
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to other information from 1970 to 1981
- ↑ Felix Dirsch: Authentic Conservatism: Studies on a Classical Current of Political Thought . Lit Verlag Münster 2011 ISBN 978-3-6431-1530-0 p. 270f.
- ↑ Martina Steber: The guardians of the concepts. The guardians of concepts. Political Languages of the Conservatives in Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980 . De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-11-045428-4 p. 291f.