Marcel Hepp

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Karl Marcel Hepp (born July 2, 1936 in Langenenslingen , Sigmaringen district , † October 9, 1970 in Heidelberg ) was a nationally conservative German politician and publicist. As a leading functionary of the CSU , he was most recently personal advisor to Franz Josef Strauss and managing editor and editor-in-chief of Bayernkurier .

Life

The son of a persecuted by the Nazi regime during his arrest he was interrogated as a student of the Gestapo, and a non-doctrinaire Catholic Women's League leader, of a schoolboy at times with his peers cousin Karl Lehmann was housed in Sigmaringer seminary, studied after the school Riedlingen stored Abitur from 1956 to 1960 law at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen. In 1960 he passed the first and in 1965 the second state examination.

With his brother, later professor of sociology Robert Hepp (* 1938), he founded a Catholic-Conservative student group at the University of Tübingen in 1959 called the Catholic Front , which was later renamed the Conservative Front . However, there are now doubts about the scope of this movement. Most of the sources calling a large and successful “Conservative Front” come from authors well known in the new right. The group, which is also open to non-Catholics, caused a sensation with leaflets, go-ins and teach-ins . and competed with the RCDS from the right. According to political scientist Hans-Dieter Bamberg, the leaflets called for the abolition of equal voting rights and the substantial curtailment of fundamental rights . In a satirical leaflet, the Conservative Front at the University of Tübingen suggested the following doctoral topics: “On flight from ideas and homelessness. Foundation of a psychology of alienation using the example of the biographies of left intelligence ( Bloch , Kuby , Bense ) ”or“ German-Israeli student group; on the history of the flagellation movement in the 20th century ”. Bamberg sees anti-Semitic allusions in this. Hepp was banned from entering the University of Erlangen after African students in the Federal Republic of Germany were described as "black Friars Minor" on a leaflet by his group.

Hepp was a close friend of Armin Mohler , whom the historian Volker Weiß considers a "key figure in the reorganization of the extreme right in the Federal Republic". Mohler dedicated the second edition of his book on the “ Conservative Revolution ” to the memory of Hepps . The Hepp brothers also got access to the circle around Carl Schmitt through Mohler . At the beginning of 1965 Marcel Hepp became a full-time CSU functionary and in autumn 1965, through Mohler's mediation, he became a personal advisor to Franz Josef Strauss . He set up his own "office of the state chairman" to coordinate his Bonn and Munich obligations on behalf of Strauss. On May 1, 1967, Hepp became "Managing Editor" of Bayernkurier . According to the political scientist Erich Eisner, Hepp should further develop the Bayernkurier for Strauss into a "foreign policy war paper". Hepp and Mohler thus actively intervened in practical politics. On behalf of Strauss, Hepp reorganized the financing of the Democratic-Conservative Correspondence in 1965 , a press information service that existed from 1964 to 1970 and was subsidized by the CSU, which was initially directed against an allegedly left overwhelming power in the media, but soon with the support of Mohler through a National setting course towards the NPD should try to bind right-wing intellectual groups, students and youth organizations to the CSU.

Under his leadership, Bayernkurier repeatedly called for a powerful Western Europe, while Hepp himself dealt with the possibilities of a European strength policy in his editorials. Hepp saw the American-Soviet dialogue as anti-European. Its main subject was the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . As one of the most uncompromising opponents of the treaty, he published The Atomic Barrier Treaty in 1968 . The superpowers distribute the world . In it, Hepp advocated a German nuclear program for nuclear armament in the spirit of Strauss and Mohler. The historian Martina Steber points out that Strauss did not allow himself to be captured by the right-wing circles around Mohler, since his concept of conservatism merged liberal and conservative ideas. Hepp, on the other hand, profiled the term conservatively , renouncing the Christian foundation, as an anti-revolutionary battle term directed against the left.

Hepp was an opponent of Willy Brandt's East and German policy , whom he said was "selling out" German interests. Shortly before the election of the German Federal President in 1969 , Hepp attacked the SPD candidate and Justice Minister Gustav Heinemann , who wanted to “help the rowdy brothers” with the reform of the criminal law , while after the election he called Heinemann “an exponent” because of his position on the statute of limitations for war crimes eternal persecution ”. As one of the most radical Gaullists , for whom the reunification of Germany had absolute priority over international alliance obligations, Hepp was extremely critical of the one-sided ties between the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA. From a party-political point of view, he strove to separate the CSU from the CDU and establish it as an independent national-conservative people's party across the region.

Marcel Hepp died of spinal cord cancer in a Heidelberg clinic. Franz Josef Strauss gave the funeral oration at the funeral in the Paulskirche in Munich . The authenticity of postponed critical notes on Franz Josef Strauss that are in the possession of the Spiegel archive is controversial.

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  • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The superpowers distribute the world . Seewald, Stuttgart-Degerloch 1968.

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  1. ↑ Karl Werner Steim, Langenenslingen, Bad Buchau 2008, pp. 142–144.
  2. ↑ Armin Mohler (Ed.): Carl Schmitt - correspondence with one of his students , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 269.
  3. ↑ Timo Mäule: New Right Myth, The Hepp Brothers in Tübingen. Institute for History Didactics and Public History at the University of Tübingen. Tübingen 2020. https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/hepp/
  4. ↑ Dirk van Laak : Conversations in the security of silence: Carl Schmitt in the political intellectual history of the early Federal Republic . 2nd edition, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 190.
  5. ↑ a b Erich Eisner: The European concept of the CSU. The pan-European concept of order of the Christian-Social Union . Diss. Phil., Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1974, p. 74.
  6. ↑ Hans-Dieter Bamberg: The Germany Foundation eV Studies on the forces of the “democratic center” and conservatism in the Federal Republic of Germany (= Marburg treatises on political science , Volume 23). Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1978, ISBN 3-445-01376-4 , p. 423.
  7. ↑ Hans-Dieter Bamberg: The Germany Foundation eV Studies on the forces of the “democratic center” and conservatism in the Federal Republic of Germany (= Marburg treatises on political science , Volume 23). Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1978, ISBN 3-445-01376-4 , p. 401.
  8. ↑ a b c Volker Weiß : Armin Mohler. He called for the revolution from the right . In: Die Zeit 29 (2016).
  9. ↑ Dirk van Laak : Conversations in the security of silence: Carl Schmitt in the political intellectual history of the early Federal Republic . 2nd edition, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 204.
  10. ↑ Armin Mohler: Memory of a friend . In: Ders .: Seen from the right , Stuttgart 1974, pp. 324–327; Karlheinz Weißmann : Armin Mohler. A political biography , Verlag Antaios , Schnellroda 2011, pp. 164 f., 227 f. 265 f., 268.
  11. ↑ Dirk van Laak: Conversations in the security of silence: Carl Schmitt in the political intellectual history of the early Federal Republic . 2nd edition, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 261.
  12. ↑ Martina Steber: The guardians of the concepts. Political Languages ​​of the Conservatives in Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1980 . ( Publications of the German Historical Institute London 78). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2017, p. 296 f.
  13. ↑ Erich Eisner: The European concept of the CSU. The pan-European concept of order of the Christian-Social Union . Diss. Phil., Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1974, p. 74 f.
  14. ^ Peter Hoeres : Foreign policy and the public. Mass media, opinion polls and arcane politics in German-American relations from Erhard to Brandt . Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 336.
  15. ↑ Martina Steber: The guardians of the concepts. Political Languages ​​of the Conservatives in Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1980 . ( Publications of the German Historical Institute London 78). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2017, p. 219.
  16. ^ A b Conrad Taler : Menetekel "Harzburger Front" - Agreement between CDU / CSU and NPD . In: Imanuel Geiß and [[Volker Ullrich (historian) |]] (ed.): Fifteen million insulted Germans or where does the CDU come from? Contributions to the continuity of the bourgeois parties . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1971, p. 130.
  17. ^ Peter Hoeres: Foreign policy and the public. Mass media, opinion polls and arcane politics in German-American relations from Erhard to Brandt . Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 100.
  18. ↑ Nils Wegner: German history continues ... , p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Hepp, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hepp, Karl Marcel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU) and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenenslingen , Sigmaringen district
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1970
Place of death Heidelberg