Otto Glagau

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Otto Glagau (center) and other anti-Semites of the “ Berlin Movement ”, around 1880

Otto Glagau (born January 16, 1834 in Königsberg , † March 2, 1892 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer in the German Empire .

Life

Otto Glagau began his career as a journalist for the liberal Berlin national newspaper . In connection with the " Gründerkrach " of 1873 (which affected him himself) he turned away from liberalism , which he accused of being responsible for the economic crisis and the moral and cultural decline of Germany. In December 1874 he published a series of articles on the "stock exchange and start-up swindle" in the family magazine Gartenlaube . In it he flatly accused the Jews of having caused the economic crisis through unfair business practices and stock market speculation . The series of articles appeared in book form in 1876. Glagau's anti-Semitism goes back further, however, because as early as 1869 there were anti-Semitic remarks about "Eastern Jews" in his descriptions of his stays in Lithuania .

In Der Börsen- und Gründungsschwindel in Berlin , in which he published his collected articles on the subject, he wrote, “that a homeless people, a physically and psychologically decidedly degenerate race, simply through cunning and cunning, through usury and haggling, across the globe commands. […] From the baptized minister to the Polish scrounger, they form a single chain, they, firmly closed, make a front against the Christians at every opportunity ”.

In other publications and in his magazine Der Kulturkäufer (1880–1888) he continued the attacks against Judaism. He coined the popular slogan “the social question is the Jewish question ” by equating the Jews with liberalism and capitalism . Glagau itself is said to have lost money in stock market speculation in the 1870s, which is why it could well be considered a mouthpiece for small self-employed people. Marr identified what he called “ Manchesterism ”, an economic system that resulted in the suppression of the handicraft class, with Judaism and wrote: “Judaism [...] does not work itself, but lets others work for itself, it trades and speculates the work and intellectual products of others. Its center is the stock exchange . "

In April 1883 Glagau led the second International Anti-Jewish Congress in Chemnitz . Otherwise he did not appear in anti-Semitic associations and parties. His ideas are likely to have had more influence on political anti-Semitism than the non-practical ideas of the sectarian ideologues Eugen Dühring , Wilhelm Marr and Paul de Lagarde .

Otto Glagau died in Berlin in 1892 at the age of 58.

Works (selection)

  • Fritz Reuter and his seals , Berlin 1866
  • Walks through Lauenburg and Lübeck , Berlin 1866
  • Lithuania and the Littau , Tilsit 1869
  • Russian literature and Ivan Turgeniev , Berlin 1872
  • The stock market and start-up fraud in Berlin , Leipzig 1876
  • The stock exchange and start-up fraud in Germany , Leipzig 1877
  • Shares , historical drama, Leipzig 1877
  • The bankruptcy of national liberalism and the 'reaction' , Berlin 1878
  • German craft and historical bourgeoisie , Osnabrück 1879
  • The Reich's Noth and the New Culturkampf , Osnabrück 1879
  • Liberal Freedoms , Osnabrück 1879 (excerpt from Des Reiches Noth and the new Culturkampf )
  • The culture fighter. Journal for Public Affairs , Berlin, 1880–1888

literature

  • Jacob Katz : The Preparatory Stage of the modern Antisemitic Movement (1873-1879) , in: Shmuel Almog (ed.): Antisemitism throughout the ages , Oxford u. a. 1988, pp. 279-289.
  • Daniela Weiland: Otto Glagau and "The Culture Fighter". On the emergence of modern anti-Semitism in the early Empire , Metropol-Verl., Berlin 2004. (= documents, texts, materials / center for anti-Semitism research at the Technical University of Berlin; 53) ISBN 3-936411-44-1
  • Bibliography on anti-Semitism in the German Empire (PDF file; 328 kB)
  • Petra Rentrop: Glagau, Otto , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 284 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Glagau  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard S. Levy : Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution . Volume 1, Santa Barbara 2005, p. 276
  2. ↑ Micha Brumlik : Anti-Semitism. 100 pages. Reclam, Ditzingen 2020, p. 53
  3. ↑ Brumlik, p. 53
personal data
SURNAME Glagau, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1892
Place of death Berlin