Modern Ludendorff organization run by Gudrun and Dr. Hartmut Klink and their daughter Sonnhild Sawallisch
The Chairwoman for the Bund für Gotterkenntnis (Ludendorff) is Gudrun Klink, her husband is Hartmut Klink and they are aided by their daughter Sonnhild Swallisch. They own a farmhouse called "Hohenlohe Youth Home" in Herboldshausen where they hold not only their own meetings but meetings with other organizations on the right as well. If anyone in Germany can put me in touch with these people please contact me (Vincent.Bruno.1229@gmail.com).
Anti-Semitism in traditional costume and lederhosen
By Timo Büchner| Date: 29.06.2022
For 50 years, the völkischer Bund für Gotterkenntnis (Ludendorff) e.V. has owned an old farmhouse in the northeast of Württemberg. The "Hohenlohe Youth Home" is a hub of the extreme right in southern Germany. Now there was protest.
Saturday, June 18, 2022. It's a hot summer's day, the thermometer measures over 35 degrees in Herboldshausen, a tranquil hamlet in Hohenlohe, Schwäbisch Hall district, Baden-Württemberg. More than 200 people came to protest against the "Hohenlohe Youth Home" of the völkischer Bund für Gotterkenntnis (Ludendorff) e.V. (BfG). The protest was organized by the local association "Without the Far Right". A singer-songwriter played Yiddish songs, the mayor and political organizations from the region gave speeches. There was water ice, can throwing and goal wall shooting.
The BfG is part of the extreme right-wing Ludendorff network. It cultivates the anti-Semitic "German knowledge of God" from the 1920s. Mathilde Ludendorff (1877–1966) distinguished between "light races" and "shadow races" in the "Knowledge of God". She claimed that the Jewish "shadow race" wanted to destroy the Nordic "light race" by "racial mixing." As late as 1939, a few months after the November pogroms, Ludendorff called for a "people-saving anti-Semitism." According to Ludendorff, hatred of Jews is "ethically deeply underpinned in the soul of every German." The anti-Semite was the wife of Erich Ludendorff – a general in the First World War and co-initiator of the "Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch" (1923).
Völkisch "clans" in the farmhouse
The BfG has owned the "Hohenlohe Youth Home" – an old, multi-storey farmhouse – for 50 years. The domicile is managed by Gudrun and Dr. Hartmut Klink from Ingelfingen-Lipfersberg (Hohenlohe district). Gudrun Klink has been the chairwoman of the BfG since 2010. Their daughter Sonnhild Sawallisch from Widdern-Volkshausen (Heilbronn district) is part of the young Ludendorff generation. In 2015/16 she was active in the extreme right-wing group "Hohenlohe wacht auf". The group protested in Öhringen (Hohenlohe district) against the German asylum and migration policy. Today, Sawallisch is the managing director of Lühe-Verlag GmbH, which is close to BfG. The publishing house offers anti-Semitic and historical revisionist literature.
Over the course of a year, the BfG organises numerous events in the "Hohenlohe Youth Home". These are both large and small events. One of them was observed from 26 to 29 May 2022. More than 70 people attended an internal Ludendorff meeting. The participants wore lederhosen and side partings, traditional costumes and braided braids. Among the participants were two dozen children and adolescents. Such Ludendorff meetings are a kind of marriage market. The young people of the völkisch "clans" are to be coupled. Most of the participants came from Baden-Württemberg, some from Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Saxony.
On the weekend of the protest against the BfG domicile, the annual summer solstice celebration was to take place. The celebration was postponed and made up for a week later, on 25 June, in a small group. The traditional solstice bonfire, which takes place on a large meadow away from the "youth home", did not take place. Apparently, the protest worked. Instead, a metre-high privacy screen was erected around the meadow of the "youth home". In some cases, the license plates were removed. There was a lot of fear of being watched. They wanted to stay hidden. The participants came from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.
Young nationalists swear by torchlight
In the "Jugendheim Hohenlohe" not only events of the BfG, but also events of other organizations of the extreme right take place. On August 29 and 30, 2020, the extreme right-wing NPD youth organization Young Nationalists organized a "Community Day South" there. Photos show young women and men. They sang in a semicircle, did push-ups and a hike with flags. New members were admitted to the nocturnal torchlight circle. One participant wrote of the new members in an "experience report" advertised on the Young Nationalists' website: "By torchlight, they swore an oath to the movement." The "movement" is understood to mean the National Socialist movement. The event was attended by "activists from all over Germany".
From October 8 to 10, 2021, the extreme right-wing group WIR Heilbronn held a "Thing of the Titans" in the house. The "thing" was a secret networking meeting. Prominent actors of the German neo-Nazi scene have been announced for the meeting – such as the lawyer Nicole Schneiders from Baden-Württemberg, who once defended Ralf Wohlleben in the Munich NSU trial, and the entrepreneur Malte Redeker from Rhineland-Palatinate, who is a key figure of the European "Hammerskins" and has shaped the extreme right-wing martial arts. The meeting was attended by several dozen neo-Nazis from Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Saxony) and France.
Identitarian Movement Practices Martial Arts
On April 9 and 10, 2022, the extreme right-wing Identitarian Movement Swabia organized an "Activist Weekend" in Herboldshausen. The program of the event was a mix of ideology, music as well as endurance and martial arts. Around 30 men took part in the event. Most of them were muscular, wore an undercut with a side parting and shoes of the brand "New Balance". The brand is popular among neo-Nazis. The large "N" embroidered on the sides of the shoes is sometimes meant to be "Nationalist", sometimes "National Socialist". Most of the men came from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Three cars had license plates from Switzerland, some from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
The examples make it clear: The "Hohenlohe Youth Home" is available to the entire spectrum of the extreme right. From the Identitarian Movement to the militant neo-Nazi scene. In this respect, the old farmhouse in tranquil Herboldshausen has become a hub of the extreme right in southern Germany.
Author Timo Büchner (Recherche Nordwürttemberg) publishes the brochure "Only nice neighbors? The Bund für Gotterkenntnis (Ludendorff) e.V. in Hohenlohe", which provides information about the activities and positions of the BfG and explains the role of the association and its "Hohenlohe Youth Home" in the extreme right. The brochure can be purchased for three euros from recherche-nordwuerttemberg@posteo.de can be ordered.
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