Ernst Graf zu Reventlow
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Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev, Graf zu Reventlow (18 August 1869 – 21 November 1943) was a German
Early life
Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev, Graf (Count) zu Reventlow was born at
First World War
During the
Reventlow was highly critical of the policies of
National Bolshevik period
In the immediate post-War period, a
DVFP and NSDAP involvement
In 1924 Reventlow and
Reventlow’s group quickly allied itself with the more socialistic wing of the NSDAP headed by Gregor Strasser which favored genuine socialistic measures and an alliance with the Soviets against the western democracies. Though a power in the party to the end, this group became less influential as Hitler turned to overt militarism and antisemitism after attaining power.
Reventlow was never liked or trusted by Hitler, but his personal popularity was substantial and Hitler chose not to cross him but to ignore him. Reventlow was never given a high party office nor, after the seizure of power, was he given any government post. Though often critical of government policies, he was allowed to publish his newspaper, Der Reichswart, until his death in 1943.
Antisemitism
Reventlow supported a theory first proposed by
Religious activism
Reventlow’s antisemitism was never racial, as was Hitler’s, but cultural, and this led to his involvement with the German Faith Movement. From 1934 to 1936, Reventlow served as deputy chairman of this religious movement which postulated that every people “through its blood” developed its own religious knowledge. The movement was anti-Christian and tried to create a “species-true faith” for Germany.[7] He left the movement because of its anti-Christian stance.[8]
Works (in English translation)
- "The vampire of the continent", 1916
(translated by George Chatterton-Hill from the German original titled "Der Vampir des Festlandes; eine Darstellung der englischen Politik nach ihren Triebkräften, mitteln und wirkungen", 1915)
- “Where is God?” “Friends of Europe” publications ; no. 47, London, 1937
- “The Neutrals In This War,” Current History, a journal published by The New York Times, October 1915, p. 169-172.
See also
- Joseph B. Neville, Jr., “Ernst Reventlow and the Weimar Republic: A Völkish Radical Confronts Germany’s Social Question," Societas 7, 1977, pp. 229–251.
- Christian Zentner, and Friedemann Bedürftig, “Encyclopedia of the Third Reich,” Da Capo Press, New York City, 1997.
- Conan Fischer, “The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism,” St. Martin's Press, New York City, 1991.
References
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ Ernst graff zu Reventlow, “Nationalbolschewismus,” Der Reichswart, I, #6 (1920), p. 8, cited by Klemens von Klemperer, “Germany's new conservatism; its history and dilemma in the twentieth century, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1957, p. 144.
- ^ Dietrich Orlow, History of the Nazi Party: 1919 - 1933, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1969, p. 96.
- ^ Albert Krebs, “The infancy of Nazism: the memoirs of ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 1923-1933,” New Viewpoints, New York, 1976.
- ^ R.I.S.S. = Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes, whose primary editor was Mgr. Ernest Jouin (December 21, 1844 - June 27, 1932).
- ^ Susan Sarah Cohen, Antisemitism: an annotated bibliography, Volume 8, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, p.444.
- ^ Count Ernst Zu Reventlow, Where is God?,“Friends of Europe” publications ; no. 47, London, 1937
- ^ Mary M. Solberg, A Church Undone, page 278
External links
- Reventlow family genealogy
- Newspaper clippings about Ernst Graf zu Reventlow in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Mary M. Solberg, A Church Undone, page 278
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