Uwe Berg publishing house

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The Uwe Berg Verlag GbR is a German small publishing and mail order with attached Antiquarian from Toppenstedt . It was founded in 1970 by the Freibund member Uwe Berg, who was socialized under neo-Nazism . The publishing program is Nazi- oriented; Right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic and racist publications have already been published . One focus is currently on the “source texts on the conservative revolution ”. Scientists attribute the publisher to the right-wing extremist spectrum.

history

The Uwe Berg Verlag was founded in 1970 as a publishing house and Antiquarian Uwe Berg founded. Publisher Uwe Berg, once a member of the Wiking-Jugend and the Bund Heimattreuer Jugend , for whom he was still in 1970 in Flanders as a camp leader and a. a. Odfried Hepp trained, initially ran the publishing house alone. Today the publishing house is run by father and son Dietrolf Berg. The son-in-law Andreas Theißen is an NPD functionary. The specialist journalist Andrea Röpke (2008) commented that the family, based in Toppenstedt in Lower Saxony, “got involved in the right-wing scene across generations”. In the past there had been relationships with Jürgen Rieger (species community - Germanic faith community for a way of life in keeping with the nature ) and Gudrun Burwitz . According to Röpke and Speit , the “nationally” raised Berg family can be attributed to the petrel environment . From a journalistic point of view, the Lüneburg Heath is described as "the center of ethnic settlers and their fellow-thinkers".

In the 1970s, Uwe Berg advertised Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and other relevant Nazi publications in his publishing catalog , for which he was sentenced in 1976 by a court in Lüneburg to a fine of 2,250 DM.

On May 26, 1989, an arson attack was carried out on the mail order shop by a stranger. To this end, the statement was circulated: “Arson attack on the mail order antiquarian of Nazi Uwe Berg in Toppenstedt”. Because of a series of crimes in the 1980s, the state criminal investigation offices of Lower Saxony and Hamburg investigated allegedly militant anti-fascists . People were in custody , however, were set free again after several weeks.

After founding the newspaper Junge Freiheit , Berg placed advertisements there . In 2012 (Berlin), 2013 (Berlin) and 2014 (Düsseldorf), the publishing house was a co-exhibitor at the fair between the new right-wing publisher Götz Kubitschek and the publicist Felix Menzel . The "source texts on the conservative revolution" published by Berg ( National Revolutionaries , Young Conservatives , Rural People Movement and Völkische ) are also officially distributed by Kubitschek's publishing house Antaios in Schnellroda. According to Speit, they "differ from the originals [...] only by a new cover and a brief preliminary remark."

In the constitution protection report of the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 2000, the name appeared in the rubric right-wing extremism . It would therefore be a "smaller publisher" in the scene, which "distributes reprints of writings from the National Socialist and Völkisch camp". The alleged argument of “scientific research” is advanced because the political orientation is obvious. In 2012, a small request from a member of the Die Linke party in the Lower Saxony state parliament regarding the connection between folk festivals ( solstice celebrations ) and the antiquarian bookshop revealed that the publisher (not the Berg family) was currently the object of observation by the Lower Saxony constitution protection agency . Röpke noted that the " conspiratorial solstice events of the Berg family" had been known in the region for years.

Program and target group

In the 1970s, the publishing house revived anti-Semitic writings from the turn of the century. For example, a reprint of the anti-Judaist and anti-Semitic pamphlet Der Mauscheljude was published . In 1977 the publishing house edited an art print portfolio of drawings by the Nazi artist Wolfgang Willrich , the pioneer of the exhibition “ Degenerate Art ”. In 1979 Simon Wiesenthal's Jewish Documentation and the Mauthausen concentration camp of right-wing extremist and revisionist Wolf Dieter Rothe were classified as right-wing extremist, Holocaust-denying . From the early 1980s onwards, Berg published old and new Nazi literature and, in 1983, a reprint of the " List of Literature to be Separated ", whereby the publisher was included in an overview volume on global right-wing radicalism. The book scholar Siegfried Lokatis (2010) found that the “index was given its original function” and again served as a “ neo-Nazi canon”.

The Toppenstedter series is regarded by the publisher as a "collection of bibliographic aids for researching the Conservative Revolution and National Socialism". The reprint Bibliography of National Socialism (1983) that appeared there contains, for example, "all National Socialist works in the narrower sense". The writings of the Reich Food Minister Walther Darré , the blood and soil theorist of the NSDAP, the eugenicist Hans FK Günther , the originator of the Nazi racial ideology, the pagan folk- religious ideologues Ludwig Fahrenkrog , the head of the Germanic Faith Community and Otto Reuter , the founder of the German-Believing Community , as well as woodcuts by the Nazi artist Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde . In 1995 the right-wing extremist Baumann "standard work" on Herman Wirth , former head of the SS institution German Ahnenerbe , was published by Uwe Berg. According to a research group at the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (2010) headed by Siegfried Jäger , the publisher “specialized in the maintenance of Nazi literature”. Andrea Röpke, who, together with her colleague Andreas Speit, judged some of the writings to be racist , attested that the mail-order antiquarian was “Nazi-oriented”.

The publishing program currently includes books in 25 categories ( anthropology , sagas , folklore, etc.). The state government of Lower Saxony stated in 2012 that the Uwe Berg publishing house was also selling post-war literature that glorified NS literature. It was also assumed that the publisher wanted to “have an ideological effect on the readership”.

Alignment and evaluation

According to specialist journalist Franziska Hundseder (1995), the bookstore is considered an “insider tip for relevant literature that is out of print”. The specialist journalist Anton Maegerle (2003) counts Uwe Berg among the "most important right-wing extremist publishers in Lower Saxony". According to Röpke and Speit, it is a "right-wing mail order business with second-hand bookstores that is known beyond the German borders".

Mathias Brodkorb from the Endstation Rechts initiative remarked in 2008: “The public still sees not only 'the rights' but also 'National Socialism' ideologically as a monolithic bloc. Apparently in order to counteract this simplistic view, the right-wing publisher Uwe Berg has dedicated himself for years to the republication of hard-to-access classical texts from the law, especially those of the 'Conservative Revolution'. "

In 2006, the historian Justus H. Ulbricht stated that the publisher was pursuing “ a kind of folk book policy”. Make facsimiles or keep antiquarian books ready, "which today's nationalists and right-wing radicals believe are part of the intellectual armament of every 'German-sensitive' person." According to the historian Volker Weiß (2015), the publisher is on an "extremely right [s] clientele specialized [] “. He publishes reprints of representatives of the “Conservative Revolution” from the 1920s and 1930s such as Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (with his main work The Third Reich ) and Ernst von Salomon . Some of these fonts are advertised on neo-Nazi sites such as Altermedia .

The historians Peter Staudenmaier (2009), Cornell University , and Hanno Plass (2013), Center for Antisemitism Research at the Technical University of Berlin , see Uwe Berg as a far-right publisher. Siegfried Lokatis (2010), Leipzig contemporary historian and book scholar, describes it as a “right-wing antiquarian bookshop”.

literature

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Daniel Drepper: The Terrorist . WAZ research blog, February 17, 2013.
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  4. ↑ a b c d e Answer of the state government of Lower Saxony to a small request from MP Pia-Beate Zimmermann (LINKE) from July 5, 2012: Völkische Customs festivals and NS-related mail-order shops, Lower Saxony State Parliament, printed matter 16/5103, August 9, 2012, P. 1 f. PDF file .
  5. ↑ Andrea Röpke : Brown parallel world . Right-wing extremism dossier , Federal Agency for Civic Education , June 17, 2008.
  6. Jump up ↑ Arne Lehmann: Lübenheen region . In: Hubertus Buchstein , Gudrun Heinrich (ed.): Right-wing extremism in East Germany. Democracy and right-wing extremism in rural areas (= science newsreel ). Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89974-578-8 , p. 265.
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  14. ↑ Application by the MPs Stephan Braun u. a. SPD and statement by the Ministry of the Interior: Resumption of the new right-wing weekly newspaper “JungeFreiheit” in the state's report on the protection of the constitution, Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, printed matter 14/128, July 14, 2006, p. 4 PDF file ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.landtag-bw.de
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