Publishing company Berg

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The Berg publishing house , to which Druffel-Verlag , Türmer-Verlag and Vowinckel-Verlag belong, was founded in Inning am Ammersee in 1991 and is considered one of the largest right-wing extremist publishers. Its managing director is due sedition convicted Gert Sudholt , former chairman of the Society for Free Journalism , which according to constitutional protection largest right-wing cultural association in Germany. The publishing program mainly includes historical revisionist and right-wing extremist publications. Verlagsgesellschaft Berg also publishes the two-month magazine German History. Europe and the world and regularly organizes the largest historical revisionist events in Germany under the name Zeit talk .

Druffel-Verlag

The Druffel-Verlag was founded in 1952 by Helmut Sündermann and his wife Ursula, born von Druffel-Freiin von und zu Egloffstein, widowed Sudholt. Sündermann was Deputy Reich Press Chief of the NSDAP until 1945 . The newly founded publishing house published the memoirs or books of numerous prominent National Socialists, such as Joachim von Ribbentrop , Ilse Hess , Hans-Ulrich Rudel , Friedrich Grimm , Franz Alfred Six and Alfred Frauenfeld . Gert Sudholt took over the publishing house after Sündermann's death in 1972. The publishing house also operates as Druffel & Vowinckel .

Türmer Publishing House

Türmer-Verlag was founded in 1949 by Herbert Böhme and mainly published apologetic literature on the Nazi era and World War II . Founder of the publishing house Böhme, poet of the Nazi movement, member of the Supreme SA leadership , employee of the Reich Propaganda Management and editor at the NSDAP-owned Eher Verlag , played a central role in a number of journalistic networks of the extreme right after the war. In 1950 he founded the Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geistes (DKEG) and made Türmer-Verlag the association's in-house publisher. In 1951 he founded the political monthly Nation und Europa together with Arthur Ehrhardt . In 1960 he was one of the founding members of the Society for Free Journalism (GfP), in 1965 he was a co-founder of the working group of popular associations and in 1970 of the resistance campaign .

In 1977 Gert Sudholt acquired the publishing house and moved the headquarters from Lochham near Munich to Berg am Starnberger See. In 1991 the publishing house became part of the Berg publishing group and was finally dissolved in 1992.

Authors

In the early years, in addition to his own productions, Böhme published works by authors who, like him, belonged to or were related to the Deutscher Kulturwerk Europäische Geistes (DKEG). These included Hans Wilhelm Hagen , Theodor Seidenfaden , Karl Günther Stempel and Hans Grimm . Then there were the Klüter Blätter , the DKEG's communications. This was followed by titles such as The Nazi Party Rallies 1923–1939 , The Africa Campaign in Color or In Duty and Joy - The Hitler Youth Experience .

In 1981, Türmer-Verlag published the book Die Auslandsdeutschen - 100 Years of People's Work by Rudolf Aschenauer , a long-time chairman of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad . The book by Henriette von Schirach , anecdotes about Hitler , was indexed 1,982th In the book series Türmer Pocket Books, Hendrik van Bergh , Gert Sudholt , Gustav Sichelschmidt and Rüdiger Gerhard , among others , primarily publish revisionist literature. In 1982 Sudholt merged the Klüter Blätter and the Politischer Zeitspiegel , which was close to the Witikobund , to form the German monthly magazine for politics, history, culture and economy , which was published by Türmer Verlag until 1990. In 1990 the German monthly books merged with Nation and Europe . An annual German Almanac has been published since 1980 , initially by Reinhard Pozorny , and after his death in 1993 by Andreas Molau .

Sudholt himself is the author of the official commemorative publication 60 Years of Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympic Town 1936–1996 , which was handed over to journalists at least until 2010, as the town had tried to host winter games in the future until 2013. It appeared in 1996 in his publishing company.

Vowinckel publishing house

The Vowinckel-Verlag was established in 1923. Among other things, it published publications by the anti- republic Juniklub , the magazine Das Gewissen and the magazine for geopolitics and was close to the Ring movement, which later had its own organ The Ring . After the war ended, the publishing house was re-established by Kurt Vowinckel , who was chairman of the right-wing extremist Society for Free Journalism (GfP) in the 1960s . In 1958 the headquarters were moved from Heidelberg to the nearby Neckargemünd . Gert Sudholt has owned the publishing house since 1997 at the latest.

In the 1950s, the publisher mainly published so-called war memorial literature; According to a statistical study for the period from 1945 to 1961, he was the publisher with the most relevant publications. The series Die Wehrmacht im Kampf ( Die Wehrmacht im Kampf) , edited by Hermann Teske , was published in 1954 and was devoted to the theoretical discussion of “battles and problems of the Second World War”. The series had published 49 volumes by 1973. In a second row of soldiers at the enemy. The Reality of the War (later Im Blick zurück. The Experience of the War at the Front ) appeared between 1957 and 1967 21 titles. As a rule, the authors were not just soldiers, but officers. In November 1960, a book by Ingo Petterson that appeared in the series was indexed by the Federal Testing Office for writings that are harmful to minors .

A subsidiary of Vowinckel-Verlag was the Scharnhorst Buchkameradschaft , originally a book club for individual subscribers. She published the series of military writers , which tried, among other things, to influence the holdings of Bundeswehr libraries. The Federal Ministry of Defense denied in 1959 that the book recommendations of the book comrades were "favored by the relevant official bodies". The Scharnhorst book comradeship went up in 1983 in the Vowinckel publishing house.

Classification by the protection of the constitution

In the 2002 report on the protection of the constitution, the Berg publishing company was described as "one of the largest and most important independent right-wing extremist publishers in Germany." According to the 2006 report on the Protection of the Constitution, the publisher had succeeded in establishing the Druffel Verlag's “Adventure Weekend History”, which has now been held for the sixth time, as a fixture in the right-wing extremist calendar of events.

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  1. ↑ Article Munich Burschenschaft invites history revisionists October 31, 2008 in the Aida archive
  2. ^ Anton Maegerle Conspiratorial Meeting of Twists of History - Looking to the Right on February 26, 2013.
  3. ↑ Article on the subject of “Zeitschriften” - Alternative Dresden News 2008
  4. ^ Rolf Düsterberg : Soldier and War Experience. German military memorial literature (1945–1961) on the Second World War. Motives, terms, evaluations. Niemeyer 2000, ISBN 978-3-484-35078-6 , p. 45.
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 3, January 18, 2010, p. 136.
  6. ↑ Claudia Kemper: The "conscience" 1919–1925: Communication and networking of the young conservatives. P. 190, note 609.
  7. ↑ a b c Rolf Düsterberg : Soldier and war experience. German military memorial literature (1945–1961) on the Second World War. Motives, terms, evaluations. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-35078-4 , p. 42.
  8. ↑ Düsterberg, Soldat , p. 41.
  9. ↑ Manfred Jenke : Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945. Colloquium, Berlin 1961, p. 394; Düsterberg: Soldat , p. 45.
  10. ↑ Jenke: Conspiracy , p. 389f.
  11. ↑ From: Verfassungsschutz Report 2006. (PDF) Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, May 25, 2007, p. 142 , archived from the original on August 6, 2009 ; accessed on March 22, 2014 .