Otto Sigfrid Reuter

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Otto Theodor Ludwig Sigfrid Reuter (born September 2, 1876 in Leer (East Friesland) , † April 5, 1945 in Bremen-Huchting ) was a German national , free religious association functionary.

Life

Otto Sigfrid Reuter was born as the son of the former captain of trade and later director of the navigation school in Leer Wilhelm Reuter (1838–1926) and his first wife Emma nee. Armknecht (1846–1877), daughter of a pastor, was born. With his second wife Karoline geb. Hagemann (1851–1941) Wilhelm Reuter had five sons, including Ernst Reuter , who later became the governing mayor of Berlin .

Otto Sigfrid attended schools in Leer, Altona and Leipzig , passed his school leaving examination in Leer in 1894, became a post office worker and came to Bonn via Oldenburg and Cologne, where he also studied history and law since 1901. After the higher administrative examination in 1905 followed Berlin, Elberfeld and in 1917 the transfer to Bremen as telegraph director and head of the telephone system. Because of downsizing and his ethnic agitation, he was given early retirement in 1924.

Already in 1910 he had Sigfrid or Christ ?! , an anti-Christian work, that conjured up a pre-Christian Germanic religiosity. In 1911 he founded the " German Order " in Berlin , which existed until it was dissolved in 1933. With the "German Religious Community " founded at the same time (since 1916 a German-faithful community ), he formed the first ethnic-religious community. Both organizations demanded the so-called Aryan proof from their members , for which (at least temporarily) Bernhard Koerner (1875–1952), the editor of the genealogical German gender book , was responsible. Ernst Hunkel took over the German Order around 1918.

Reuter rose in the national movement as an ideologist in the reputation. Less in leadership - despite his collaboration in Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Glaubensbewegung", but more in the formulation of the worldview, he emerged. So he turned to prehistoric Germanic research, studied in Berlin with Gustav Neckel and v. a. with Gustaf Kossinna , with whom he was friends and for whose magazine Mannus he wrote articles until 1941. A lecture on astronomy and mythology held in 1925 formed the prelude to his occupation with Germanic celestial studies (major work that appeared with the support of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft ), with which he tried to prove a specifically Germanic astronomy. In 1939, at the instigation of influential scientists such as Franz Josef Hopmann , Otto Reche , Konstantin Reichardt and Kurt Tackenberg, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig . He received the Gustaf Kossinna Prize of the Reichsbund for German Prehistory in 1936.

Since 1939 a member of the NSDAP and in contact with the ancestral legacy of the SS , Reuter was an important ideologist of the neo-pagan ethnic-religious movement.

Reuter died on April 5, 1945 in a bomb attack in Bremen-Huchting.

Fonts

  • anonymous: Sigfrid or Christ ?! Battle cry to the Germanic peoples at the turn of the millennium. By a German , 1910.
  • The riddle of the Edda and the Aryan original belief (2 volumes). Sontra 1921-23, reprint 1993, ISBN 978-3880809062 .
  • From Aryan prehistory , 1925, 2nd edition 1986.
  • Germanic astronomy. Studies on the history of the mind. Lehmann, Munich 1934 ( online repr. 1993).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 438.
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Otto Sigfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuter, Otto Theodor Ludwig Sigfrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of a German-ethnic religious community
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1945
Place of death Bremen-Huchting