Zucht und Ordnung

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Zucht und Ordnung

Zucht und Ordnung is a

National Socialism
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Etymology

The basic meaning of the word Zucht (Old High German/Middle High German zuht) was historically associated with human breeding and nurturing of livestock. Additional meanings that the word acquired later, in modern German, include 'training' and 'education', particularly of children (including in decency and modesty). Because the training/education of children was often accompanied by disciplining and punishment, Zucht also appears in compound words like Zuchthaus ('penitentiary'), Zuchtmittel ('disciplinary measures'), Züchtigung ('punishment'), Zuchtlosigkeit ('licentiousness', literally ‘Zuchtlessness') and Unzucht ('immorality', literally 'unZucht').[2]

Usage history

The term Zucht und Ordnung is attested in German from at least the fifteenth century, when it might be translated as 'Christian discipline and order'. The idea that Christians should submit to discipline and order is particularly associated with the

Thomas a Kempis and John Calvin.[5]

In the time of

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre.[6] A more critical usage began, using the term ironically, in the late nineteenth century, in parallel to the traditional, positive usage.[7]

The term was picked up again in the period of

National Socialism, for example by the Nazi Georg Usadel in his 1935 volume Zucht und Ordnung, a guide to Nazi ethics.[8] In this context, the word Zucht is partly used in its etymological meaning 'human-influenced development of species' (in this case the master race, giving a sense along the lines of 'breeding and order'), and partly in the sense of 'education' as conceived in National Socialist ideology, specifically promoting loyalty (Gefolgschaft).[9]

Following the end of World War II, the term has been used almost exclusively as a quotation.[10] With the anti-authoritarian movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the term Zucht und Ordnung increasingly became a battle cry of critics of traditional teaching and educational methods, associating the terms 'authority' and 'discipline' with the subservient mentality associated, inter alia, with Nazism.[11] The term also became associated with BDSM. For example, the quarterly magazine Zucht und Ordnung (Z & O), targeted at gay practitioners of erotic spanking, ran from the mid-1980s to the end of 1995 in Germany.

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References

  1. ^ Zucht und Ordnung Redensarten-Index; Verwendungsbeispiele: Schul-Soap mit Zucht und Ordnung: "Auf die Finger" Spiegel Online, 30. May 2004; Abkehr von Zucht und Ordnung, Deutschland Radio Wissen, 27. May 2010
  2. ^ Grimms Wörterbuch
  3. ^ 1. Kor. 14, 40
  4. ^ Cf. New American Standard Bible (Carol Stream, Illinois: Creation House, 1971).
  5. ISBN 3-12-911530-7
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  6. ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Die gefährliche Wette
  7. ^ Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags, vol. 133, 1894, p. 210; Deutscher Verein für Schulgesundheitspflege (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Schulgesundheitspflege, vol. 12, 1899, p. 92.
  8. ^ Georg Usadel, Zucht und Ordnung. Grundlagen einer nationalsozialistischen Ethik, Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 3rd edn, 1935.
  9. ISBN 978-3-525-35158-1, p. 119
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  10. ^ Z. B. Wilhelm Kahle, Aufsätze zur Entwicklung der evangelischen Gemeinden in Russland, 1962, p. 186.
  11. ISBN 978-3-941320-40-6
    , p. 29.
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