Wolfgang Strauss (Author)

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Wolfgang Strauss (born March 8, 1931 in Libau , Latvia ; † January 8, 2014 in Achern ) was a German author. He was one of the pioneers of the New Right in Germany. As a theoretical contribution, he introduced the concept of “ liberation nationalism ” to the New Right.

Life

Strauss was born in Latvia and came to Mecklenburg with his ethnic German parents . In 1949 he became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in the GDR . In 1950 Strauss was arrested and sentenced to death by a Soviet military court for "anti-Soviet propaganda, political espionage and illegal group formation"; the sentence was commuted to 50 years of forced labor. After participating in the Vorkuta uprising in 1953 and being convicted, he was transferred to a Soviet prison camp in 1954 and to the GDR in 1955 to serve his sentence in Bautzen prison . He was released in April 1956. Two months later, he fled via West Berlin in the Federal Republic . He worked in the picture archive of a Munich publishing house and as an editor of a Catholic weekly newspaper. Strauss was initially a member of the SPD , but was disappointed with the party. As a young socialist he wanted to revive the spirit of Ferdinand Lassalle , but he did not succeed. In early 1969 he joined the UAP / BAJ (Blue Eagle Youth, youth organization of the Independent Workers' Party UAP). At the third congress of the BAJ he was elected deputy federal chairman, at the fifth party congress of the UAP in November 1970 also in its central office. He later took the helm of the BAJ, but resigned the chairmanship in September 1972 due to excessive workload in order to concentrate on the editor-in-chief of the Reichsarbeiterzeitung. In 1973 he was editor and employee of the Neue Zeit published by Siegfried Pöhlmann's Aktion Neuerechte (ANR) and in 1974 he was deputy ZB-Chairman of the UAP. After the resignation of all party offices on June 30, 1977, he transferred to the cause of the people / National Revolutionary Organization (SdV / NRAO).

Strauss wrote numerous newspaper articles and essays. Groundbreaking for the ideology of the New Right was his book: In spite of everything - we will win. Nationalist Youth of the East in the Fight against Colonialism, Imperialism, Stalinism and Worker Oppression (Munich 1969)

Strauss died at the age of 82 in a close family circle after a short illness.

Publications

  • Despite everything - we will win. Nationalist youth of the East in the fight against colonialism, imperialism, Stalinism and worker oppression. Lehmann, Munich 1969, DNB 458267392 .
  • Nation or class. 60 years of struggle against the October Revolution, history of resistance in the USSR. Langen-Müller, Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3-7844-1709-7 .
  • Revolution against Yalta - Peace, Workers 'and Peoples' Struggle - The unsolved national and social question in Eastern Europe. Vowinckel, Berg am See 1982, ISBN 3-921655-25-7 .
  • Uprising for Germany. June 17, 1953. Druffel, Leoni 1983, ISBN 978-3-8061-1025-8 .
  • Three days that shook the world. Boris Yeltsin and the Russian August Revolution. On the fall of Soviet multiculturalism. All-German publishing house, Wesseling 1992, ISBN 978-3-928415-04-0 .
  • Operation Barbarossa and the Russian Historians' Dispute. Herbig, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-7766-2028-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Bartsch : Revolution from the right? Freiburg 1975, p. 28f.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Strauss: Despite everything, p. 176; Günter Bartsch: Revolution from the right? Ideology and Organization of the New Right, Freiburg im Breisgau 1975, p. 28f .; Manfred Rowold: In the shadow of power. On the opposition role of the non-established parties in the Federal Republic, Düsseldorf 1974, p. 254. The DISS suspects him to be the author behind the pseudonyms Dietrich Oberon, Alexander Volkmann, Simon Carnot, Hans Bruckner, Raoul Fuhrman in the 1966/1967 volumes of Deutsche Nachrichten - National Democratic Newspaper . The statement "which could have come from him in style and content ..." is not very conclusive
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Libau , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2014
Place of death Achern