Order of the New Templars

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Flag of the Order of New Templars.

The Order of the New TemplarsOrdo Novi Templi was a

Order of Cistercians
which had trained the New Templars founder, Adolf Lanz.

Lanz's goal was to bring right-wing extremists in post-World War I Germany together and mobilise them in opposition to liberal society. Members used code names to hinder any chance of betrayals.[1] The order would later provide support to the rise of Nazism.

Adolf Joseph Lanz
).

Lanz was the ideologist and political agitator of the group, justifying violence by punishments such as

racial conflict between the supposedly higher-bred "master class" and lower-bred "animal people"[2] and to enforce it by force "up to the castration knife" (Lanz).[2]: 41  Lanz's ideas should allow the upper class and imperialist groups to justify "any exploitation".[2]: 156  Specifically, "the enslavement" of the population was to be reintroduced and this rule by "the emasculation" of be enforced by those who think differently. Women should be called "slaves"[2]: 42  and "breeding mothers"[2]
: 282  serve.

The right-wing extremist and anti-Semite

crusades
.

Around the time of his order's founding, Lanz developed into a determined racist, who saw in the

Mediterranean area. He interpreted the persecution of the Templars from 1312 as a triumph of racially inferior people whose aim was to undermine the rule and purity of the Aryan race. In addition, he was convinced that the Catholic Church had been suppressing true Christian teaching since that time, as the core of which he regarded his ideas of a racial struggle. He therefore saw his own order as a new beginning of the crusade against lower races that had been interrupted for centuries.[4]

In 1907 Lanz acquired the ruins of the small

Volkish symbol.[5]

From 1908, public festivals were held at Werfenstein. Several hundred guests traveled by steamboat on the Danube, where the castle is located, and were greeted with cannon shots, after which they celebrated extensively in the castle courtyard. This found great resonance in the national press and stimulated interest in Lanz's publications.[6]

Lanz continued to work on the ceremonies and composed devotional songs and verses. The castle was decorated with solemn representations of

Christ to redeem the Aryan race and wipe out the lower races.[7]

Their symbol was a yellow flag with a

fleurs-de-lys. The golden background symbolized eternity, the lilies racial purity, and the red swastika the rising Aryan hero.[2]
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See also

References

  1. ^ , retrieved 2022-04-29
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  3. ^ Goodrick -Clarke 2006, p. 91.
  4. ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2006). Wouter J. Hanegraaff (ed.). Ariosophy. Leiden. pp. 91–97. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Goodrick-Clarke: The occult roots of National Socialism, Graz 1997, p. 98, and 2006, p. 93 f.
  6. ^ Goodrick-Clarke 1997, p. 98 f.
  7. ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2006, p. 94.