Sebastian Maass

Sebastian Maaß (born January 13, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian and author of political writings, whose publications include people and topics of the New Right and their ideas.

Life

Maaß studied politics and administration at the University of Konstanz from October 2001 to October 2003 and from October 2003 to April 2009 history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with an MA

Since then he has been working as a freelance writer. He mainly deals with the Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic and the New Right . In 2011 he contributed a few articles to the second volume of the right-wing conservative state policy manual , which was edited by Erik Lehnert and Karlheinz Weißmann for the Institute for State Policy . His music is published by Duncker & Humblot , in Telesma publishing house and as a right-wing force Regin-Verlag . He also publishes in the magazines “ Sezession ”, “ Der Eckart ” and “Young Forum” as well as in the magazines “ Junge Freiheit ”, “ Nationalzeitung ” and “ Deutsche Demokratie ” (organ of the NPD ). From November 2010 to November 2011 he was a scholarship holder of the Erich and Erna Kronauer Foundation . He lives in Tübingen.

Since April 2016 he has been secretary in the AfD district committee in Tübingen .

reception

Failed doctorate

As the Free Press from Chemnitz reported on July 12, 2013, the historian Eckhard Jesse , chairman of the doctoral colloquium , refused to review Maaß's dissertation The History of the Conservative Intelligence 1945 - today at the Technical University of Chemnitz . According to Jesse, Maaß wrongly puts people of the New Right in a constitutional light and unscientificly pursues right-wing extremist apologetics . The two reviewers of the work, Frank-Lothar Kroll and Harald Seubert , had previously rated the font with cum laude . Maaß withdrew the work and published it in book form in the Regin Verlag in Kiel in 2014. Henning Eichberg , a key figure in Maaß's work as a major protagonist of the New Right in the 1960s and 1970s, called the work “both tendentious and limited” in a review written in 2016.

Oswald Spengler - A Political Biography

In a review of Oswald Spengler - A Political Biography for H-Soz-u-Kult, the Hamburg historian Volker Weiß took the view that the book contained serious inconsistencies and technical defects. The author completely ignored the research literature available on Spengler in its mostly very superficial treatment. Rather, the selection of literature points to his political home: “The overwhelming presence of the products of relevant small publishers makes the work a self-talk of the extreme right.” Overall, Maaß presented an unreflected Spengler apologetics, mixed with multiple references to his own publications that were replaced by Technical literature should be consulted. Weiss criticized the fact that a renowned specialist publisher such as Duncker & Humblot had even published such a work by Maaß, which was not understandable for either scientific or publishing reasons. At the end of 2013, the publisher removed Maaß's Spengler biography from its program. In a press release it says: "Although no extremist positions are represented in the book itself, with this step the publisher is expressly protecting itself against being appropriated for the author's political or ideological agenda."

Fonts

As an author

• Edgar Julius Jung and the metaphysical foundations of the conservative revolution , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-941247-20-8 (= Kiel studies of the history of ideas , volume 1).
• Fighters for a third empire. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and his circle , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-941247-22-2 (= Kiel studies of the history of ideas , Volume 2).
• Third way and true state. Othmar Spann - idea generator of the conservative revolution , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-941247-25-3 (= Kiel studies of the history of ideas , volume 3).
• Strong state and Imperium Teutonicum. Wilhelm Stapel , Carl Schmitt and the Hamburger Kreis , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-941247-31-4 (= Kiel studies of the history of ideas , Volume 4).
• Sword and poppy. Friedrich Georg Jünger . A political biography , Telesma-Verlag, Treuenbrietzen 2012, ISBN 978-3-941094-05-5 .
• Oswald Spengler . A political biography , Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-83899-8 (book was removed from the program in the same year 2013 - see article text).
• The history of the New Right in the Federal Republic of Germany , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2014, ISBN 978-3-941247-44-4 .

As editor

• Hans-Dietrich Sander : "Im Banne der Reichsrenaissance" , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-941247-40-6 (= Ad Rem , Volume 1).
• Günter Maschke : "Traitors don't sleep" , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-941247-35-2 (= Ad Rem , Volume 2).

Web links

• Literature by and about Sebastian Maaß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Sebastian Maaß  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Sebastian Maaß" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Sebastian Maaß on the Regin-Verlag website

Individual evidence

1. ^ The new order 64: 5 (2010), p. 399f.
2. ↑ Erik Lehnert / Karlheinz Weißmann (eds.): Staatspolitisches Handbuch, Volume 2: Schlüsselwerke , Schnellroda 2011.
3. ↑ Karin Priester : The Society, Politics and the Pope . In: Die Neue Gesellschaft, Frankfurter Hefte 3/2009, p. 14; as well as Karin Priester: Fluid boundaries between right-wing extremism and right-wing populism in Europe? ( Memento of the original from September 24, 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. . In: From Politics and Contemporary History , B 44 (2010), pp. 33–39.
4. ↑ s. Uwe Backes : Current shape and significance of intellectual right-wing extremism in Germany. (2008) on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education ; Assessment ( memento of the original from January 20, 2016 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. the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) ; Steffen Kailitz : Political Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany , Wiesbaden 2004, p. 84. 
5. ↑ s. Profile of Sebastian Maaß on XING.
6. ^ Jens Eumann: "Right-wing extremist doctoral thesis in Chemnitz overturned" ; Article in the Freie Presse on July 12, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2013.
7. ^ Kerstin Köditz : Chemnitz Front? . Website from Kerstin Köditz, September 22, 2013.
8. ↑ Henning Eichberg: "Sebastian Maaß: The History of the New Right in the Federal Republic of Germany, Kiel (Regin) 2014, 368 pages" ; Review at GlobKult of 11 May 2016 accessed November 30, 2018th
9. ↑ Volker Weiß: Review of: Maaß, Sebastian: Oswald Spengler. A political biography. Berlin 2013, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, November 21, 2013, < http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2013-4-149 >.
10. ↑ Press release of the publisher v. December 18, 2013 (accessed February 9, 2014).