Rolf Engert

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Rolf Engert (born October 31, 1889 in Frankenberg / Sa. , † January 23, 1962 in Dresden ; pseudonyms: Angelus Saxonicus , Maximos ) was a German writer , poet , playwright and publisher .

Life

Rolf Engert grew up with two brothers and a sister in the family of the civic school director Friedrich Emil Engert (1845-1913) and his wife Martha in Dresden. He attended the Royal High School Dresden-Neustadt , which he graduated from high school in 1909. He then studied philosophy , German and history in Freiburg, Berlin, Kiel and Leipzig . In Leipzig he received his doctorate in 1916 with a thesis on Henrik Ibsen . From 1916 to 1919 he studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art and the Drama School of the German Theater.

After Engert saw no possibility of exercising the desired activity as a dramaturge in the post-war period , he was mainly active as a writer from 1919. Due to his intense preoccupation with Max Stirner , which he began in 1906 , he joined the Stirner Friends Association founded by John Henry Mackay in 1918 . While he soon distanced himself from Mackay, through this association he came into contact with Georg Blumenthal , one of the founders of the neophysiocratic movement. Through Blumenthal, he got to know the work of the free economist Silvio Gesell and get to know him personally. For Engert, Stirner's and Gesell's teachings complemented each other to form a contemporary social theory. This led him to political engagement in the 1920s, albeit not in one of the great movements of the time. Like Gesell, he was looking for a “third way” beyond capitalism and communism. In an article in 1932 he defended the concept of the “ Third Reich ”, which Ibsen had taken over from his play Kaiser und Galiläer (1873), against the Nazis' appropriation and made it clear in March 1933: “In an earlier publication I followed Henrik Ibsen named this new foundation of a higher nature and a higher culture, yes, of the living unity of both, with the name of the Third Reich . This symbolic term is today of course almost devalued by the terminology of a political party and dragged down to a banal level and is misunderstood and misunderstood on everyone's lips. "

A little later, however, he wrote - under the pseudonym Maximos - a series of articles about our positive collaboration in the construction of the new Germany. Soon, however, he withdrew to Inner Emigration .

From 1945 Engert was employed at the Rudolf Steiner School in Dresden as a teacher for Latin, German and art and in 1948 was briefly a lecturer in German literature at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . In 1950 he was expelled from the GDR Writers ' Association.

Engert died in Dresden in 1962. His grave is there in the Loschwitz cemetery .

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After Engert 1921 its expanded dissertation of 1917 as a book Henrik Ibsen as a herald of the Third Reich had published, he wrote mostly minor works, first in the of Solomon Friedlaender and Anselm Ruest magazine published the Stirnerbundes, the only Son (named after Stirner's book The Ego and his property ), in which the later Kant editor Gerhard Lehmann published his first texts. Next, Engert published four episodes of New Contributions to Stirner Research in the publishing house of the Third Reich, which he had founded , dated to the years 76 to 79 “after Stirner's unique” (1921 to 1924). In his subsequent publications he was mainly concerned with

“To create the spiritual foundations of the third Reich proclaimed by Henrik Ibsen, brought up by Max Stirner, economically founded by Silvio Gesell, the manhood of mankind, the time of affirmed and consciously formed uniqueness of the individual, in all areas of life, so radical individualism with everyone realizing its consequences. "

Engert's efforts to combine Stirner's ideas with those of Gesell, which were expressed in a series of articles for more than a decade, ultimately met with little success. Even in a radical faction of the neophysiocratic movement, the “Fregosten” (free egoists), Engert remained isolated with his project, especially since Gesell himself never commented positively on it.

Fonts

  • The basic idea in Ibsen’s worldview, based on Ibsen’s own advice, was won and developed in his works , Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1917 (in the series test drives, first papers from the German seminar in Leipzig, vol. 29).
  • Early fire. Poems, Publishing House of the Third Reich, Dresden 1919.
  • Henrik Ibsen as herald of the Third Reich. Verlag Voigtländer, Leipzig, 1921. (New ed. With documentation and register of persons: Max Stirner Archive, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-933287-91-5 )
  • The free economy: a practical expression of Stirner's philosophy. Lecture given on November 26th, 76 after Stirner's only one at the European Individualist Congress, Freiland-Freileld-Verlag, Erfurt 1921. (New ed .: 1998, Verlag Max-Stirner-Archiv, Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-933287-13 -7 )
  • New contributions to Stirner research , Verlag des Third Reich, Dresden 1921–1924 (Reprinted in 1996 by Anti-Quariat-Reprint-Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-9803059-1-0 )
    • Issue 1: Max Stirner / About school laws.
    • Issue 2/3: The portrait of Max Stirner / The image of the free.
    • Issue 4: Stirner documents. (Facsimiles)
  • The dignity of the personality and its preservation through the natural economic order. Verlag Die Neue Zeit, Jena 1925 (New ed. 2001, Verlag Max-Stirner-Archiv, Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-933287-37-3 )
  • Seraphic wanderer. Sprüche, 1st episode, 1948 (republished in the magazine "Der Einzige", issue 1–3, 1998).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Engert's older brother Horst (1886-1949) is the author of the book The historical thinking of Max Stirner , Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1911 (reprinted in 1999 by the Max Stirner Archive Leipzig). This resulted in internal disputes regarding the treatment of Stirner between the two of them: see p. 36 of the reprint.
  2. ↑ Rolf Engert: My relationships with Silvio Gesell, his teaching and his movement [approx. 1950]. In: The only one. Quarterly journal of the Max Stirner Archive Leipzig, Issue 5 (Feb. 1999), pp. 17-21
  3. ↑ R [olf] E [ngert]: Our fight against the Nazis. In: last policy, born 1932, no.27
  4. ^ Rolf Engert: Silvio Gesell as a person. (Lecture given at the 2nd Silvio Gesell commemoration in Eden-Oranienburg on March 13, 1988 according to Stirner's only one), Stirn-Verlag, Leipzig 1933, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Maximos: Our positive collaboration in the construction of the new Germany : Part I - Give the state what the state is! . In last policy, year 1933, no. 18; Episode II - The dictatorship. Ibid., No. 23; Episode III - Free Land and Ethnicity. Ibid., No. 49
  6. ^ Rolf Engert: Peace and Freedom: Lecture ... 1923, p. 28.
  7. ↑ Bernd A. Laska : Silvio Gesell and Max Stirner offers a description of Engert's efforts, edited according to sources . To the Stirner debates of the free economy . In: The only one. Journal of the Max Stirner Archive Leipzig, No. 5, February 1999, pp. 3–13.
personal data
SURNAME Engert, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelus Saxonicus (pseudonym); Maximos (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1962
Place of death Dresden