Munin Publishing House

The Munin-Verlag GmbH is a right-wing extremist German book and magazine publishing. The publishing house is now based in Trier , previously in Reinsfeld and Osnabrück . Among other things, he published the veteran magazine Der Freiwillige der Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Mutigkeit ( Aid Community for Mutual Members of the Former Waffen-SS ) (HIAG).

The name comes from the Norse mythology popular with right-wing extremists , in which Munin is one of the two ravens and companion of the god of war Odin on the battlefield. Munin belongs to the Old Norse verb muna (to think of, to remember), the name Munin therefore means "the memory".

Background and story

Munin-Verlag was founded in December 1958 by the Federal Association of Soldiers of the Former Waffen-SS eV - Aid Community for Mutuality (HIAG). According to the partnership agreement, it was the express aim of founding the publishing house to write the war history of the Waffen SS in collaboration with troop comrades. The publications of the Munin Verlag usually do not meet scientific standards. The publisher's authors were former commanders or general staff officers who were also members of the HIAG. The historian Karsten Wilke classifies the publications in attempts by the HIAG "to fill subject areas that have not been dealt with by professional history [...] with their own representations". These attempts were largely successful; By the 1970s at the latest, the HIAG had at least temporarily achieved "a monopoly of interpretation on the history of the Waffen-SS". Wilke names the “ topos of the 'apolitical' Waffen-SS”, its alleged elite role, the “staging of the troops as a 'European army'” and the “delimitation of war and Nazi crimes” as the four central elements of these “memory structures” ".

By the time the HIAG Federation was dissolved in 1992, Munin-Verlag had published 57 titles. Patrick Agte , Fritz Bunge , FG Eine , Albert Frey , Paul Hausser , Walter Hofmann , Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann , Richard Schulze-Kossens , Otto Kumm , Rudolf Lehmann , Georg Maier, Hubert Meyer , Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , published by Munin-Verlag Wilhelm Petersen , Gert Schwager , Silvester Stadler , Hans Stöber , Peter Strassner , Ralf Tiemann and Wilhelm Tieke .

At the regional level, HIAG structures still exist today. The magazine Der Freiwillige was the organ of the Waffen SS Veterans Association. Its circulation was 5,000 copies in 2006; The magazine is particularly popular in neo-Nazi circles. The volunteer was in 2014 by Dietmar Munier Publisher & Give reading adopted and is in the magazine History DMZ risen.

Until 2000 the publishing house was based in Osnabrück. Patrick Agte (* 1965) has been the owner of Munin- / DBU-Verlag since April 2000. Agte is also managing director of the veteran association of the comradeship association of the 1st Panzer Corps of the former Waffen-SS eV and among other things editor of the illustrated book Michael Wittmann , the most successful tank commander in World War II and of Die Tigers der Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . The homepage of the "German Book Union" is also registered on Patrick Agte, the symbol of which is similar to that of the Munin publishing house.

Munin-Verlag achieved a turnover of 700,000 euros in the 2008 financial year.

Munin Prize

In 2006, the publisher awarded two prizes:

Munin Prize for Fine Arts
Munin Prize for the German Language

He justified his initiative as follows: For decades, almost only degenerate art has had an existential correction in our country (sic!). Talents who deal with popular art and culture are not encouraged and are usually laughed at. This is a condition that we no longer want to tolerate.

Individual evidence

↑ Response of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate to a request from the SPD on right-wing extremism as a threat to democracy and society - ideology, structure and strategies of right-wing extremist parties and organizations from October 1, 2009, p. 17.

↑ ^a ^b Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 379 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 399 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 398 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 405 (quotation), see also p. 379 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 408 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

↑ Background: Munin-Verlag and “Der Freiwillige” ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 16, 2011. @1@ 2

^ The right margin: Which sheet the publisher Dietmar Munier took over, News from the Waffen-SS , taz , March 27, 2014

^ Announcements under company law (Bundesanzeiger-Verlag), issue 0189, section 44 (Liquidations), January 1, 2000. Retrieved from LexisNexis on February 21, 2011.

↑ Commercial register announcements (Bundesanzeiger-Verlag), edition 0093, section 20 (new entries), April 5, 2000. Retrieved from LexisNexis on February 21, 2011.

^ Creditreform German company profiles, February 17, 2011. Retrieved from LexisNexis on February 21, 2011.

↑ http://de.altermedia.info/general/munin-verlag-setzt-preise-fur-bildende-kunst-und-deutsche-sprache-aus-091106_7612.html Munin-Verlag sets prices for fine arts and German language , November 9, 2006 (link no longer available, July 8, 2012).

[1] Response of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate to a request from the SPD on right-wing extremism as a threat to democracy and society - ideology, structure and strategies of right-wing extremist parties and organizations from October 1, 2009, p. 17.

[Wilke379-2] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 379 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[3] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 399 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[4] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 398 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[5] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 405 (quotation), see also p. 379 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[6] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 408 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).