Werner Georg Haverbeck

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Werner Georg Haverbeck (born October 28, 1909 in Bonn , † October 18, 1999 in Vlotho ) was a National Socialist German publicist , historian , folklorist and pastor of the Christian Community .

Life

Weimar Republic

Haverbeck was the son of the city engineer Albert Haverbeck and grew up in Bonn. In the 1920s Haverbeck was active in the Bundische part of the Protestant youth . As a schoolboy he was involved in the National Socialist movement and in 1923 joined the "Youth League of the NSDAP", from which the Hitler Youth (HJ) emerged. Haverbeck became a member of the NSDAP in 1926, but membership was suspended because minors were banned from joining the party. Apparently he was finally accepted on August 1, 1929.

In 1928 he graduated from high school in Bonn and began studying comparative religion, philosophy and history in Bonn in 1928. Further positions followed in Munich (1929), Berlin (1935) and Heidelberg (1936). Another source names Kiel (1931) and the subjects history, folklore and political science as another station .

At the same time as he began his studies, Haverbeck became a member of the SA in 1928 (member until 1931) and a member of the NSDStB , for which he founded the local association in Bonn. From spring 1929 until 1932 he was a member of the Reich leadership of the NSDStB. In Bonn, Haverbeck also founded a local group of the Kampfbundes für deutsche Kultur (KfdK) led by Alfred Rosenberg . On August 1, 1929, Haverbeck became a member of the NSDAP (number 142.009). From August 1, 1931 until 1932 he was head of the Office for Culture and Philosophy of Education in the Reich Youth Leadership of the NSDAP.

In December 1932, Haverbeck was removed from his offices in the Reich Youth Leadership by Baldur von Schirach , who himself had brought him into the Hitler Youth in 1929, without giving reasons. This was preceded by an internal dispute with von Schirach about the line of the Hitler Youth. Haverbeck campaigned for an "internalization of youth work" and criticized the one-sided paramilitary orientation pursued by Schirach. Haverbeck, who was the assistant to the charismatic cultural researcher Herman Wirth , founded the German Youth Working Group around Herman Wirth. Regardless of this incident, Haverbeck received the support of Rudolf Hess for his plans for nationality work , who accepted him into his staff.

Nazi state

Haverbeck broke off his studies because of an appointment to the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. In June 1933 he was commissioned by Rudolf Hess with the national socialist movement's national socialist movement for the whole of the Reich. Authorized by Hess, he founded the Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat (RVH) in August 1933 as a sub-organization of Robert Ley's German Labor Front and from then on acted as the head of the Reich Central Office for Volkstumsarbeit of the NSDAP , to which the Reichsamt Volkstum und Heimat in the NS-Gemeinschaft Kraft also worked Joy was secondary. The aim of the RVH was to gain control over the nature conservation movement . On behalf of Rudolf Heß, Haverbeck was involved in the cultural organization of the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg.

In 1934, Haverbeck attracted Robert Ley's mistrust. Ley had doubts about Haverbeck's convictions because he was considered “worker-friendly” and behaved in a rather moderate way in cultural policy for National Socialist conditions. Ley described Haverbeck in July 1934 as "no longer wearable" and in October 1934 he discontinued him. Haverbeck's Reichsbund dissolved Ley in January 1935. After Haverbeck had to leave the Reichsbund in this directional battle, he tried in vain to gain a foothold in the German Ahnenerbe Research Association under Herman Wirth . From October 1935 he received a doctoral scholarship from Heinrich Himmler . Himmler accepted him into the SS on November 20, 1936 and promoted him to SS-Untersturmführer .

Haverbeck has been concerned with Herman Wirth's "symbol research" since 1930. He was friends with the founder of the Ahnenerbes Wirth and his private student and wanted to do his doctorate with him. In 1935, however, Wirth was no longer available as a doctoral supervisor, so Haverbeck resumed his studies in history, folklore and political science in Berlin and initially wanted to do his doctorate with Adolf Spamer . In 1936 Haverbeck moved to the University of Heidelberg and became Eugen Fehrle's assistant . He was with him on August 6, 1937, his work life tree and sun emblem Dr. phil. PhD. He continued to work as an assistant in Heidelberg and completed his habilitation there in 1938 with his work Deutscher Volksglaube im Sinnbild . Parallel to his activities in Heidelberg, Haverbeck was also a consultant on Rudolf Hess' staff in 1937.

In 1938 Haverbeck fell out with his previous sponsor Heinrich Himmler, who expelled him from the SS on May 23, 1938 with the following words: “I am releasing you from the SS with immediate effect because you do not have the most primitive qualities of discipline and humanity Have the decency that must be required of an SS leader. "

From 1940 Haverbeck worked for the Foreign Office . He was first sent to Denmark to the German embassy in Copenhagen (commenced service on April 13, 1940), where he initially worked as a research assistant from May 1, 1940, and from July 9, 1940, as a radio attaché for German radio propaganda. Haverbeck married his first wife Ilse on December 21, 1940.

In March 1941, Haverbeck was sent to Buenos Aires with Gustav Bannach , where he began his service as a broadcast attaché on March 28, 1941. The aim of his seven-month mission was to buy or subsidize new broadcasters or editors. From November 29, 1941 Haverbeck worked again in the Foreign Office in Berlin, where he, together with the later Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, set up the German-fascist propaganda station of the "Deutsche Auslands-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft Interradio AG" to influence South American governments. On March 1, 1942, Haverbeck took over the management of Section III / Spain, Portugal, and later the management of Section IVb / Southeast. On October 1, 1942, Haverbeck was sent to Pressburg , where he was a radio consultant from October 12 to December 6, 1942. From December 10, 1942 Haverbeck took an active part in World War II. According to Peter Bierl , he fought as a lieutenant in the Panzergrenadier Division Feldherrenhalle , including on the Eastern Front .

After 1945

After the lost war, the returnees Haverbeck stood “on the side of the East”, according to his friend Ulrich Schmiedel. “Here are the more believers, the biologically stronger. We have the task of connecting the West and the Eastern socialist force, ”Schmiedel quoted him in 1946.

Haverbeck became a member of the Anthroposophical Society , studied from 1948 at the seminary of the anthroposophically inspired Christian community in Stuttgart and was ordained a priest in 1950. In a press release from 2008, the Christian community stated that he had concealed his Nazi past in his resume when applying. Haverbeck worked as pastor of the Christian Community in Marburg until 1960. In 1951 Haverbeck took care of the Nazi criminal Otto Ohlendorf pastoral care before his execution in Landsberg . In 1959 he was given leave of absence from his priesthood because of “leftist tendencies”. The occasion was a trip Haverbeck through Russia, China and Taiwan in 1958, where he had a conversation with Chiang Kai-shek , among other things . He was no longer allowed to exercise the priesthood and to participate in the synods. In 1983, however, his leave of absence was reversed. Haverbeck was resumed as pastor at a synod "in all honors" with simultaneous retirement and on condition that he did not appear publicly for the Christian community. Regardless of this, Haverbeck published in 1978 and 1983 in Urachhaus Verlag , which at that time was still the publishing house of the Christian Community. The publisher's advertisement said about his résumé: "Since 1959 he has dedicated himself to the humanization of working life."

From 1960 Haverbeck worked as a publicist and lecturer . Haverbeck came into contact with the peace movement through his anthroposophical relationships, including Renate Riemeck . In the early 1960s he was involved in the board of trustees of the Easter March movement .

From 1960 to 1962 he held a research assignment from the Stifterverband for German science .

In 1963, together with his future wife Ursula Wetzel, he founded the Collegium Humanum association as the “Academy for the Environment and the Protection of Life”. The offer of the training center was first taken up in the 1960s by IG Metall , anthroposophists, supporters of Silvio Gesell , representatives of the FSU and members of the early ecological movement. From the 1970s, representatives of the New Right joined them, and from the 1980s Haverbeck's Collegium Humanum developed into a center for anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial - until it was banned in May 2008 .

On July 31, 1970, Haverbeck married his previous partner Ursula Meta Wetzel.

From 1967 to 1979 Haverbeck taught at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . In 1973 he accepted a professorship for applied social sciences in engineering.

From 1974 to 1982 Haverbeck was president of the right-wing, partly right-wing extremist World Association for the Protection of Life BRD eV (WSL), and at times also President of the World Association for the Protection of Life International.

As a member of the WSL, Haverbeck was a frequent guest of the AUD , which since its party congress in 1973 saw itself as the “party for the protection of life”. Haverbeck became a leading member of the Democratic Life Protection Movement (DLB), which was founded on March 24, 1974 with significant participation of the AUD. In 1975 Haverbeck succeeded in merging the federal associations of nature, environmental and life protection groups into the "German Council for Environment and Life Protection". He was able to win the former Federal President Gustav Heinemann as patron . Haverbeck himself became the spokesman for the five-member council.

In 1978 Haverbeck was appointed to the Gustav Heinemann Initiative by Erhard Eppler . In 1979 he became an advisor for environmental protection issues to the SPD Minister Egon Bahr .

In 1981 Haverbeck signed the Heidelberg Manifesto , in which German university professors warned against the "infiltration of the German people" and the "foreign infiltration" of the German language, culture and "folkism".

Haverbeck became known to the public through lectures on various topics, for example at numerous events by opponents of nuclear energy . When the Ecological Democratic Party was constituted nationwide in 1982 , Haverbeck became a scientific advisor and member of the party's “Ecological Council”.

Haverbeck also gave lectures at various right-wing extremist organizations: in 1984 at the Society for Free Journalism with a lecture on homeland and nationality as the basis of the future , 1985 at the Bund Heimattreuer Jugend (BHJ), 1986 at the "Süddeutsche Forum" and at the German Cultural Association European spirit as well as in 1994 with the "Society for European Urgemeinschaftskunde", which goes back to the Ahnenerbe founder Herman Wirth. At the end of his life Haverbeck was mainly active as a journalist. Within the New Right he was the representative for the maintenance of tradition and folk ideology.

In 1985 he published the book Wittekinds Sieg - a 1200-year legacy . National Socialism saw in the "Sachsenführer" Widukind an idol for "racial purity", fighting courage and "national community". This idea and its effect in the present day is the subject of the book. The book was published by Vidar Verlag in Bellen near Rotenburg / Wümme . Haverbeck's wife gave lectures in 2014 on the subject of "Wittekind - the white child".

In 1989 his book Rudolf Steiner - Lawyer for Germany made waves. The Christian community and anthroposophists sharply distanced themselves from it. While Arfst Wagner energetically rejected Haverbeck's thesis that Steiner had not tacitly accepted the Auschwitz lie (with this term Haverbeck denies the dimension of the Shoah ) and stated that the anthroposophical view of history is far from being “pro-National Socialist "To be, for example, found Wolfgang Purtscheller Steiner correctly represented by Haverbeck, as" nationalists of ethnic origin with a conspiracy-theoretical background ". Haverbeck also commented on war guilt in his book: “As a result, today no teacher or university professor is allowed to publicly discuss the question of Germany's war guilt or of mass extermination camps without being reprimanded immediately and possibly even brought to justice, because this is what it is about to indubitable facts. They are not to be doubted because on it - and as we now think we can say: on a historical lie - states of the post-war period were founded, whose existence would also be called into question. "

Works

  • And when we march ...!: A story of the struggle and victory of the German post-war youth , together with Ulrich Schmiedel, A. Weichert Verlag 1933
  • Awakening of the Young Nation: Aim and Path of the National Socialist People's Youth Movement. In: National Socialist Monthly Issues , No. 35, February 1933, pp. 54-82.
  • Volkstum und Heimat as a commitment to young culture , Verlag Volkstum und Heimat 1934
  • German May: Sinn und Festgestaltung , Phönix Verlag 1935
  • Werner Georg Haverbeck among others: The image of man in the present . Treatises. Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education, Mannheim 1964.
  • The goal of technology. The incarnation of the earth . Walter , Olten / Freiburg 1965.
    • Revised as The Other Creation. Technology - a fate of man and earth . Urachhaus , Stuttgart 1978. As a Fischer paperback Perspektiven der Anthroposophie 1983.
  • Young people in industrial society and business , Collegium Humanum, Valdorf-Ost o. J. (around 1966)
  • Worker education, aspects of company education . Edited by the Collegium Humanum. Contributions by Werner Georg Haverbeck [u. a.], Carl Backhaus Foundation, Ahrensburg 1973
  • The polarity of man and earth. Of the absurdity of hostility to nature . Lecture given at the 130th Congress of the German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors in Hanover on May 4, 1978, Collegium Humanum 1978
  • Technology and human existence . Conference proceedings (co-editor), Free Academy, Vlotho 1982, ISBN 3-923834-01-2
  • Decision to earth. Destruction and life in our hands , Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1983
  • Wittekind's victory. A 1200-year legacy , Vidar, Rotenburg / Wümme 1985
  • The German Movement - On the Development of Freedom Consciousness . In: Bernhard Willms (ed.): Handbuch zur Deutschen Nation, Volume I: Intellectual inventory and political situation , Hohenrain-Verlag , Tübingen 1986
  • Rudolf Steiner - Lawyer for Germany. Causes and backgrounds of the world war of our century . Langen Müller, Munich 1989 ISBN 3-7844-2280-2 (new edition: Verlag Zeitenwende , Dresden 2001)
  • Come, Holy Spirit, you Creator. Food for thought on the intellectual crisis of the present , Aquilon, Edertal 1994
  • The world struggle for people. A German self-reflection (together with Ursula Haverbeck), Grabert, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-87847-151-3
  • The world struggle for community. The development of democracy into a people's order (together with Ursula Haverbeck), Grabert, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-87847-154-8 (listed in the VLB under the wrong title!)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ingrid Tomkowiak: The "Heidelberg Manifesto" and folklore. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 1996 (92), p. 196.
  2. ↑ a b c BDC files Haverbeck, secondary literature: Peter Bierl, Lebensschutz und Rassenhygiene: On the ideological foundations of the World Association for the Protection of Life (WSL), dated August 1, 2011, p. 7 f.
  3. ^ Peter D. Stachura: Nazi Youth in the Weimar Republic. Clio Books, Santa Barbara 1975, p. 222.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Maria Keipert: Biographical Manual of the German Foreign Service, 1871–1945: G – K. F. Schöningh 2005, p. 221 f.
  5. ↑ From the BDC file; Secondary literature: Wolfgang Jacobeit , Hannjost Lixfeld , Olaf Bockhorn, Völkische Wissenschaft: Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century , Böhlau 1994, p. 298.
  6. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch. Biblio-Verlag, 2003, p. 424.
  7. ^ Stefan Breuer and Ina Schmidt: Die Kommenden: a magazine of the Bündische Jugend (1926-1933). Schwalbach 2010, p. 123.
  8. ↑ Reinhard Bollmus, Stephan Lehnstaedt : The office of Rosenberg and his opponents: Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2006, p. 47 f.
  9. ↑ “(...) Haverbeck propagated a tangled mixture of nature conservation and völkisch racial doctrine, which contrasted, for example, the 'remote' Judaism with the 'earthly' nature of the German people. (...) who cherished and cultivated his activities and contacts on the extreme right during his teaching activity, among other things as chairman of the green-brown 'World Association for the Protection of Life' and founder of the Collegium Humanum in Vlotho, which was recently banned due to National Socialist efforts. (...) "; from: Frank Lachmann: “Schwewiegen”, in: Jüdische Allgemeine , 63rd year, No. 36 of September 4, 2008, p. 2.
  10. ^ Frank Uekötter, Nature Conservation and National Socialism , Campus Verlag 2003, p. 153.
  11. ^ Arfst Wagner: Anthroposophists and National Socialism. Problems of the past and the present. In: Flensburger Hefte , 3/91, Heft 32, Flensburg 1991, p. 42.
  12. ↑ Harm-Peer Zimmermann: "Völkischer Aufbruch" of the Heimatvereine. The “synchronization” of the folkloric lay movement in Schleswig-Holstein after January 30, 1933. In: TOP 6, reports of the Society for Folklore in Schleswig-Holstein 6, 1992, p. 13.
  13. ↑ a b c Bernard Thomas Mees, The science of the swastika , Central European University Press 2008, p. 231f.
  14. ^ Franz Mandl: The legacy of the ancestors, Ernst Burgstaller / Herman Wirth and the Austrian rock art research. In: ANISA announcement, 19./20. Vol. H. 1/2, 1999 p. 47.
  15. ^ Jörg Melzer: Whole Foods Nutrition: Dietetics, Naturopathy, National Socialism, Social Claims. Franz Steiner Verlag 2003, p. 369.
  16. ↑ a b Arfst Wagner: Anthroposophists and National Socialism. Problems of the past and the present. In: Flensburger Hefte , 3/91, Heft 32, Flensburg 1991, p. 44.
  17. ↑ Heinz Sanke: German Fascism in Latin America, 1933–1943. Humboldt University 1966, p. 97.
  18. ↑ a b c d Peter Bierl: Protection of life and race hygiene: On the ideological basis of the World Association for the Protection of Life (WSL). Dated August 1, 2011, p. 9 f.
  19. ↑ a b c Arfst Wagner: Anthroposophists and National Socialism. Problems of the past and the present. In: Flensburger Hefte , 3/91, Heft 32, Flensburg 1991, p. 45.
  20. ^ Helmut Zander : Anthroposophy in Germany. Theosophical world view and social practice 1884–1945 , 2 volumes. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, p. 250.
  21. ↑ a b Haverbeck not representative of the Christian community , published by Frank Hörtreiter, public relations officer of the Christian community, Hanover on June 3, 2008
  22. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who. Schmidt-Römhild Verlag 1993, Volume 32, p. 513.
  23. ↑ The other creation. Technology - a fate of man and earth. Fischer Paperback, 1983.
  24. ↑ BVerwG 6 VR 1.08 Decision of the Federal Administrative Court
  25. ↑ Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party handbook. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983, ISBN 3-531-11570-7 , Vol. 1, 323 f.
  26. ↑ Richard Stöss: From nationalism to environmental protection. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1980, p. 253.
  27. ^ Jens Mecklenburg : Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996, p. 469.
  28. ↑ Jürgen Wüst: Conservatism and Ecological Movement: an investigation in the area of ​​tension between party, movement and ideology using the example of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). IKO 1993, p. 133.
  29. ^ Ingrid Tomkowiak: The "Heidelberg Manifesto" and folklore. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 1996 (92), p. 198.
  30. ↑ Legend of Widukind in the mirror of the times. In: Experience Westphalia. January 28, 2014, accessed December 4, 2016 .
  31. ^ Arfst Wagner: Anthroposophists and National Socialism. Problems of the past and the present. In: Flensburger Hefte , 3/91, Heft 32, Flensburg 1991, p. 48 f.
  32. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller: The order they mean. Picus 1994, p. 129.
  33. ↑ Haverbeck: Rudolf Steiner , 1989, p. 324f quoted in ASTA of the FH Muenster (ed.), Alle Reden vom Wetter. We don't: Contributions to the promotion of critical reason . Paperback Westfälisches Dampfboot 2005, p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Haverbeck, Werner Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and folklorist, SA and SS member, pastor of the Christian Community, most recently a freelance journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1999
Place of death Vlotho