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The Bund für (Deutsche) Gottwissen (after Erich Ludendorff and his wife Mathilde also Ludendorffer or Ludendorffianer) is a religious-völkisch worldview community based in Tutzing, which is classified by the authorities for the protection of the constitution as right-wing extremist and anti-Semitic. [1][2][3] The Bund für Gottwissen, a registered association, claims to have 12,000 members; however, the authorities estimate that there are only about 240 active members. [4]

Worldview[edit | edit source]Edit source]

The club is assigned to the neo-Germanic scene. At the same time, the cultic element is completely eliminated in the covenant for the knowledge of God; religion is reduced to folklore as the ultimate reality. It is claimed that the laws of heredity also apply to ethical and psychic qualities, so that religiosity is also inherited. [5] Due to its "völkisch background", the Bund is dealt with in a separate chapter in the standard work The Völkisch-Religious Movement, since according to the authors it bears "all the traits of an esoteric sect". [6]

The followers reject a personalized God and seek the knowledge of God in the universe that surrounds them, which, according to the community, is "permeated by divine beings." According to self-assessment, this idea is pantheistic; the Bund knows no cult and propagates the correspondence of the natural sciences with Mathilde Ludendorff's philosophy of religion. [7] Judeo-Christian monotheism, on the other hand, is rejected as alien to Germanism.

Ethnic and racial divisions are important because each people represents particular aspects of the divine, and these are lost through the mixing of ethnic groups and the adoption of cultures and religions. The "essence of all appearances" is considered to be God:

"We call the essence of all phenomena of the universe 'God' or the 'divine' with special emphasis that this word has not the slightest thing to do with a conception of God in the various religions." [8]

The worldview of the Confederation is permeated by open racism and anti-Semitism. The conception of the "knowledge of God" differing according to the people or "race" and the demand derived from it to "avoid racial mixing" is an example of this. In addition, the world of thought of the Ludendorffs is characterized by conspiracy theories[9] according to which alleged "supranational powers" such as Jews, Freemasons, Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church in particular are striving for world domination. [1] Above all, "the Jews" were striving to "induce a kind of madness on the Germans" with the help of Christianity, Freemasonry and socialism. Under their influence, the Germans would be attracted to other races, so that their "racial virtues with the inherited experience of God" would be lost and the "mixing of blood" would eventually lead to the German "death of the people".

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The roots of the Confederation lie in the interwar period. Especially during the Nazi era, many people in Germany left the church. At the spiritual center of this movement to leave the church were, among other things, the writings of the Nazi party ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, who were critical of the church. [10] The designation "God-believing" made it possible for all those who had left the Church to choose an official non-ecclesiastical designation. [11] The Ludendorffs were also very active in this scene. However, the two predecessor organizations of the Bund, the Tannenbergbund and the Deutschvolk, were banned on 22 September 1933. However, the House of Ludendorff continued to have a medium at its disposal in the form of the magazine Am Heiligen Quell, which was now converted to a semi-monthly publication, which reached a circulation of 1937,86 copies in 000. In analogy to the German Faith Movement, which the House of Ludendorff stubbornly refused to join, it was now called the Faith Movement of the German God Believers.

After a personal conversation between Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff, who had been linked since the joint coup attempt in 1923 but had been at odds since 1929, the registration "Bund für Deutsche Gotterkenntnis (Ludendorff)" was made possible in March 1937. [12] A few months before Ludendorff's death, Hitler granted Ludendorff permission to re-found a national-religious association, which in 1937 was given the name Bund für Deutsche Gottwissen, which was entered into the register of associations on 19 June 1937. All restrictions on the ideological activities of the association were lifted. The Ludendorff movement is thus one of the few offshoots of the völkisch movement that was tolerated under National Socialist rule. [13]

Shortly after the end of World War II, Mathilde Ludendorff sent out circulars to the remaining followers, addressing them as "members of our religious association."[14] Protected by the freedom of religion stipulated in the Potsdam Agreement, Mathilde Ludendorff received permission from the American military government in 1947 to re-establish the League on a purely "religious basis." However, the re-establishment was delayed by a court proceeding,[15] according to which Mathilde Ludendorff was classified as the main culprit in connection with denazification on 5 January 1950. [16]

In 1951, however, the Bund für Gotterkenntnis (L) was officially re-founded in Berlin and entered into the register of associations of the Munich District Court. The first chairman was the lawyer Wilhelm Prothmann. [17] In 1961, it was banned by the interior ministers of the federal states as an anti-constitutional organization and a "nucleus of anti-Semitic group sentiment" (1963 report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution). In 1976, the ban was lifted due to procedural errors, but the League for the Knowledge of God is still monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution today.

Since 1952, a certificate of withdrawal from the church has been required for a new registration for the Bund für Gottwissen. [18] The ideology formulated before 1933 continues unchanged to the present day:

"We are accustomed to seeing the family as the sacred source of strength of a rooted, race-conscious people, and to know how much it can also secure vitality for peoples who have been uprooted in their species-consciousness." [19]

"Among the mortal dangers of peoples, I have mentioned above all the mixture of races, and I have shown in detail how much the individual human being is thereby deprived of the faithful consultation of all his faculties of consciousness by the racial genetic material in the subconscious. The racial half-breed is not as instinctive as the racially pure man, who is very often in life under the advice of the people's souls." [20]

Einrichtungen und Veranstaltungen[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Der Bund für Gotterkenntnis unterhält mit dem Verlag Hohe Warte einen eigenständigen unternehmerischen Zweig, der die Weltanschauung der Ludendorffer publizistisch verbreitet.[21]

Eingangstor zur Ahnenstätte Hilligenloh

Es bestehen zudem mehrere als „Ahnenstätten“ bezeichnete Privatfriedhöfe, deren Nutzung den Angehörigen des Bundes vorbehalten ist bzw. war. Sie befinden sich im Eigentum von Gruppen, die mit dem Bund für Gotterkenntnis verbunden sind. Zum Beispiel fühlten sich die Vereinsmitglieder des Trägervereins „Ahnenstätte Hilligenloh e. V.“ gemäß ihrer Satzung lange Zeit „der Gotterkenntnis Mathilde Ludendorffs“ verbunden. 2015 wurde die Satzung geändert. Zwar gebe es im Verein noch Mitglieder des Bundes für Gotterkenntnis, sie könnten aber keinen Einfluss mehr auf die Geschicke der Ahnenstätte Hilligenloh nehmen, so der Ahnenstätten-Vorsitzende Ekkehard Mannigel.[22] Auch in Petershagen-Seelenfeld gibt es eine Ahnenstätte. Sie wurde vom Tannenbergbund gegründet. Dort haben sich Ludendorffer im Juni 2017 getroffen.[23]

Im Jahr 1999 erwarb der Bund für Gotterkenntnis in Kirchmöser einen sanierungsbedürftigen Hof. Es wurden ein großer Saal, eine Mensa und zahlreiche Gästezimmer geschaffen.[24]

Die weltanschaulichen Vorstellungen der Ludendorffer werden auf regelmäßigen Tagungen und Seminaren vermittelt. Daneben hat der Bund für Gotterkenntnis eine eigene Feierkultur. Laut Verfassungsschutz Schleswig-Holstein hat der Bund in Norddeutschland einen Schwerpunkt. 1994 schätzte das schleswig-holsteinische Innenministerium die Aktivitäten wie folgt ein: „Diese (Veranstaltungen) ziehen – über kleine und durchweg überalterte Kreise der BfG-Mitglieder hinaus – auch Angehörige anderer rechtsextremer Organisationen in nicht unbeträchtlicher Zahl an.“[25]

In jüngerer Vergangenheit lässt sich eine wachsende Aktivität, eine Anwerbung neuer Mitglieder und eine Vernetzung mit der rechtsextremen Szene, insbesondere der völkischen Bewegung, beobachten. In der niedersächsischen Ortschaft Dorfmark im Landkreis Heidekreis (Lüneburger Heide) veranstaltet der Bund seit 1971, also auch schon zu Verbotszeiten, jedes Frühjahr zu Ostern ein Treffen. Immer wieder sind dabei prominente Neonazis Gäste der Ludendorffer, etwa Steffen Hupka (2006 und 2012), Mitglieder der inzwischen verbotenen Heimattreuen Deutschen Jugend (2007), Hans-Joachim Herrmann (2010), die mehrfach verurteilte Holocaustleugnerin Ursula Haverbeck (2013)[26] und Nikolai Nerling (2018).[27]

Der „Arbeitskreis für Lebenskunde“ (AfL), der sich an der Philosophie Mathilde Ludendorffs orientiert, ist für Jugendveranstaltungen zuständig. Regelmäßig werden in Niedersachsen und Schleswig-Holstein Ferienlager, Wanderungen und „philosophische“ Schulungen veranstaltet. Kindern und Heranwachsenden wird auch „Lebenskunde“-Unterricht erteilt.[28]

Medien[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Am heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft war eine Zeitschrift des Ludendorffs-Volkswarte-Verlages in München. Sie erschien in zweimonatlichen bis wöchentlichen Abständen. Anfangs eine rein philosophische Zeitung, behandelte sie nach dem Verbot von Ludendorffs Volkswarte 1933 auch politische Themen. Sie hatte 1937 eine Auflage von 100.000, musste aber 1939 durch fehlende staatliche Papierzuweisung ihr Erscheinen einstellen.[29] Nach dem Krieg erschien ab 1948 als Nachfolgezeitschrift Der Quell, der 1961 nach einem Verbot durch die Zeitschrift Mensch und Maß abgelöst wurde. Mensch und Maß erscheint bis heute im Verlag Hohe Warte als philosophisch-politische Zeitschrift des „Bundes für Gotterkenntnis“. Regelmäßig werden in dieser Zeitschrift revanchistische, verschwörungstheoretische und rassistische Positionen vertreten. In einem 2002 im Verlag „Hohe Warte“ als Neuauflage erschienenen Buch des Chronisten der Ludendorff-Bewegung, Hans Kopp, heißt es in Bezug auf die sechs Millionen während des Holocausts ermordeten Juden: „Auch wer die unhaltbare Zahl von 6 Millionen anzweifelte, wurde als Antisemit gebrandmarkt, obwohl man eigentlich erwarten müßte, daß ein Antisemit lieber mehr Tote gesehen hätte.“[30][31]

Der antisemitische und geschichtsrevisionistische „Verlag für Ganzheitliche Forschung“ war seit den 1970er Jahren eng mit dem „Bund für Gotterkenntnis“ verbunden.[32] Geleitet wurde der Verlag vom Ludendorff-Anhänger Roland Bohlinger.[33][34][35] Der Verlag ist für Reprints und Faksimiles von völkischen und nationalsozialistischen Werken aus den 1920er und 1930er Jahren bekannt.[36] Zusätzlich werden Nachdrucke und Veröffentlichungen von Autoren wie Wilhelm Kammeier und Helmut Schröcke verlegt. Der Verlag wird heute unter dem Namen Verlagsgruppe Bohlinger weitergeführt.[35]

Literatur[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Primärliteratur[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

  • Mathilde Ludendorff: Aus der Gotterkenntnis meiner Werke. Ludendorffs Verlag, München 1935.
  • Mathilde Ludendorff: Der Volksseele Wirken in der Menschenseele und ihre Verschüttung durch Fremdlehre und Rassemischung. In: Gunther Duda u. a.: Rassen und Völker im Licht der Wissenschaften und der Gotterkenntnis M. Ludendorffs (= Tutzinger Schriften). Verlag Hohe Warte, Pähl 1987, ISBN 3-88202-333-3, S. 78–88 (Aufsatzsammlung).
  • Erich Weferling: Kurze Einführung in die Gotterkenntnis. Verlag Hohe Warte, Pähl 1952.

Sekundärliteratur[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

  • Annika Spilker: Geschlecht, Religion und völkischer Nationalismus. Die Ärztin und Antisemitin Mathilde von Kemnitz-Ludendorff (1877-1966). Campus Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39987-4 (zugl. Diss. Universität Kassel 2012).
  • Bettina Amm: Die Ludendorff-Bewegung. Zwischen nationalistischem Kampfbund und völkischer Weltanschauungssekte. Dissertation, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-932681-47-9.
  • Frank Schnoor: Mathilde Ludendorff und das Christentum. Eine radikale völkische Position in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik und des NS-Staates (= Deutsche Hochschulschriften, 1192). Verlag Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8267-1192-0 (zugl. Diss. Universität Kiel 1998).
  • Gideon Thalmann, Felix Reiter: Im Kampf gegen „überstaatliche Mächte“. Die völkische Ludendorff-Bewegung – von „Jugenderziehung“ bis „Ahnenpflege“. Bildungsvereinigung Arbeit und Leben, Braunschweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-932082-46-7.
  • Julian Feldmann, Christoph Gümmer: Rechtsextrem im Geheimen. Die völkischen Ludendorffer und ihr Umfeld. Bildungsvereinigung Arbeit und Leben, Braunschweig 2020

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References and notes[edit | edit source]Edit source]

  1. ↑ Hochspringen nach:a b Report on the Protection of the Constitution Schleswig-Holstein 2000.
  2. ↑ Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Anti-Semitic Weltanschauungsverein settles in Brandenburg, 2008.
  3. ↑ My German Summer. taz, June 12, 2007.
  4. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Glossary of Right-Wing Extremism: Association for the Knowledge of God (Memento of 21 June 2012 at the Internet Archive)
  5. ↑ Harald Baer et al.: Lexicon of New Religious Groups, Scenes and Worldviews. Freiburg et al., ISBN 3-451-28256-9, p. 878.
  6. ↑ Uwe Puschner, Clemens Vollnhals: The völkisch-religious movement in National Socialism: A history of relationships and conflicts. Göttingen 2012, p. 160.
  7. ↑ Stefanie von Schnurbein: Göttertrost in Wendezeiten. Munich 1993, p. 48.
  8. ↑ Mathilde Ludendorff: From the knowledge of God in my works, p. 24.
  9. ↑ Gabriele Nandlinger, Holger Kulick: Bund für Gotterkenntnis (BfG). Prevention Network against Right-Wing Extremism, April 2013, archived from the original on 24 June 2014; Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Harald Iber: Christian Faith or Racial Myth, 1987.
  11. ↑ Margarete Dierks: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer. Heidelberg 1986; p. 270
  12. ↑ Erich and Mathilde Ludendorff: The powerful religiosity of the German people before 1945. In 2004.
  13. ↑ Stefan Breuer: Die Völkischen in Deutschland. German Empire and Weimar Republic. Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21354-2, p. 258f.
  14. ↑ Spruchkammerakten, File III, pages 38–42, received on 16 January 1947
  15. ↑ Documentation on the trial proceedings against Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff from 23.11.–26.12.1949, several volumes, edited by Franz Karg von Bebenburg, Pähl 1950.
  16. ↑ https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/biografie-mathilde-ludendorff.html
  17. ↑ Articles of association as of 16 December 1952, notarized by notary Victor Nowak, Berlin
  18. ↑ The Source, October 9, 1952.
  19. ↑ Mathilde Ludendorff in Mensch und Mass No. 18, 9/1989, p. 863, column 1.
  20. ↑ Mathilde Ludendorff: Is the knowledge of God possible? 1975, p. 16.
  21. ↑ For more information, see the following section Media.
  22. ↑ Karsten Krogmann: Where old Nazis are allowed to rest peacefully. In: Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ) of 27 September 2014.
  23. ↑ Julian Feldmann: Burial place for the Völkische | View to the right. 16 June 2017, retrieved 28 June 2017.
  24. ↑ Racist and historical revisionist workshop weekend (sic!) at Hof Märkische Heide in Kirchmöser (Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive)  Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice..
  25. ↑ The Right Edge No. 37, Nov./Dec. 1995, p. 17.
  26. ↑ NDR report on the 2013 conference (Memento of 1 April 2013 in the Internet Archive)
  27. ↑ "People's teacher" Nikolai Nerling: Tango down! In: Ruhrbarone. 14 April 2019, retrieved 30 September 2019 (German).
  28. ↑ Working Group for Life Studies: Reference to the Philosophy of Mathilde Ludendorff.
  29. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 26/1949, p. 6 ("At the holy source of German power").
  30. ↑ Felix Reiter, Gideon Thalmann: The Ludendorff Movement. Brochure of the Parents' Initiative for Help against Emotional Dependence and Religious Extremism e.V., 2012, p. 4.
  31. ↑ Anton Maegerle: What does the right margin read? The Forest of Leaves www.bpb.de, December 23, 2016.
  32. ↑ Uwe Backes, Patrick Moreau: The Extreme Right in Germany: History, Present Dangers, Causes, Countermeasures. Akademischer Verlag, Munich 1993, p. 124.
  33. ↑ Uwe Backes: Right-wing extremist ideologies in history and the present. Böhlau Verlag, 2003, p. 220.
  34. ↑ https://www.apabiz.de/archiv/material/Profile/Bohlinger,%20Roland.htm
  35. ↑ Hochspringen nach:a b Roland Bohlinger died in 2013 and is now known as Verlagsgruppe Bohlinger
  36. ↑ Report on the Protection of the Constitution of the State of Schleswig-Holstein 2003, p. 38.

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