New German Esperanto Movement
The New German Esperanto Movement (NDEB) was founded on February 9, 1931 by the young SA Rottenführer Herbert Wohlfahrt under the name of the National Socialist German Esperanto Association . Since the National Socialist German Workers' Party refused to allow the association to use the National Socialist epithet , it changed its name to New German Esperanto Movement soon after it was founded .
history
Plans for the German Esperanto Front
The NDEB did not go far enough with the coordination of the German Esperanto Association (DEB) , which was carried out at its own request from 1933 , in particular it called for the application of the Aryan paragraph . In April 1934 , sixteen Saxon local groups of the DEB, led by the chairman of the Saxon Esperanto Association Albrecht Naumann, ultimately demanded the application of the Aryan paragraph in the DEB, otherwise they would collectively withdraw from the DEB. When the DNVP-close DEB chairman Behrendt refused, the NDEB sent a letter to the DEB general assembly demanding that both organizations merge into a "German Esperanto Front". The leader of this front was supposed to be Albrecht Naumann. Thereupon Behrendt resigned as chairman of the DEB and proposed his party comrade Kurt Walther , who had only joined the DEB in 1931.
Agreement between DEB and NDEB
On June 3, 1934 Kurt Walther signed an agreement for the DEB and Willibald Pietsch for the NDEB to work together with the aim of a German Esperanto Front. However, at the instigation of some Berlin DEB members, a registry judge found in 1934 that the Federal Assembly of the DEB, at which Kurt Walther had been elected, had not been properly convened. Kurt Walther was appointed acting chairman, whose only task was to convene a new federal assembly according to the old statutes.
In addition, the publisher and owner of the DEB's members' magazine , Friedrich Ellersiek , categorically refused, contrary to the agreement between the DEB and NDEB, to print NDEB notices in his magazine. The DEB then dissolved the contract at the end of 1934 and the NDEB published its own organ Esperanto in Germany from September 1934 . From 1935 a joint organ was to appear. Due to the decision of the registry judge that the DEB Federal Assembly of 1934 was invalid, the DEB's termination of the contract between DEB and Ellersiek was now also ineffective. In addition, since the DEB did not set up its extraordinary federal assembly until January 1935, the DEB would have been tied to Ellersiek for another year and the Esperanto Front decided in 1934 could in fact not have been realized until 1936 at the earliest. This delaying tactic of the DEB led to displeasure among the leaders of the NDEB, who then took a clear position against the DEB from the end of 1934.
New orientation of the NDEB
In 1935 the leadership of the NDEB had to realize that advertising for Esperanto in connection with National Socialism was undesirable. On August 18, 1935, she decided to dissolve her local groups (five in Berlin alone), to stop advertising Esperanto in Germany and to devote herself to the 'practical use' of the language for propaganda of National Socialism abroad.
End of the NDEB
As early as June 26, 1935, Reinhard Heydrich , Heinrich Himmler's deputy, recommended to the Ministry of the Interior to dissolve and ban all associations of the Esperanto movement and to confiscate their property. But it wasn't until February 18, 1936 , that the decree, signed by Martin Bormann , came that no party member or sub-organization of the NSDAP was allowed to belong to a world language association. This marked the end of the NDEB.
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- ↑ Ulrich Lins, The dangerous language, Gerlingen, 1988, p. 101 and the other, La danĝera lingvo, Moscow, 1990, p. 108
- ↑ Ulrich Lins, The dangerous language, Gerlingen, 1988, pp. 99-100
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Lins, The dangerous language, Gerlingen, 1988, p. 102 f.
- ↑ Ulrich Lins, La danĝera lingvo. Moscow. 1990, p. 110
- ↑ Ulrich Lins, Esperanto edition, p. 115
- ↑ Ulrich Lins, The dangerous language, Gerlingen, 1988, p. 107
- ↑ Ulrich Lins, The dangerous language, Gerlingen, 1988, p. 110