Weimar cartel

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The Weimar cartel was a 1907 formed collaboration of several free-thinking-driven and free-spirited organizations. The purpose of the Weimar cartel was the "free development of intellectual life and defense against all oppression", the separation of school and church and the complete secularization of the state ( separation of state and church , secularism ).

founding

The agreement to found a “cartel” of free-thinking and free-spirited organizations had been made in Weimar in 1907. One of the early promoters of the idea of ​​such an association was Ernst Haeckel , who shortly before had founded the German Monist Association.

After the Weimar Conference on December 14 and 15, 1907, a committee of five was set up to prepare for the official establishment. This took place on 8./9. June 1909 in Magdeburg. An office was set up in Berlin. The Weimar Cartel was reconstituted at the Monist Congress in 1911 and the office was relocated to Frankfurt am Main. The Frankfurt factory owner, publisher and poet Arthur Pfungst became chairman .

Member organizations

Important member organizations of the Weimar cartel were among others

Other associations such as the Federation of Free Religious Congregations in Germany did not become members, although they were close to the Weimar cartel and there were personal ties.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Rolf Groschopp, Dissidents , 1997, p. 181 ff.
  2. a b Frank Simon-Ritz, The Organization of a Weltanschauung , 1997, p. 161 f.
  3. Jörg Lesczenski : Heinrich Roessler , Societäts-Verlag, 2015, pp. 59–60, ISBN 978-3-95542-127-4 .