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Some time ago i did promice some of you gents a wiew some of my early swastica badges from my collection or badges that are related to the antisemetic timepriod as we know it. First ill allow my self to invite you gents whit a little history arround this timeperiod which bring us back to the very early age or birth of Nazism.
My search in this subject starts whit the buildup of the root to the antisemitic area and later ending whit fullblood nazism, and to begin whit searching in the small or tiny part of history i did whit help from german arcives etc. discover relations or threads to this subject. well let me start from the beginning whit lookover the Deutscher Turnerbund and the developement whitin.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (August 11, 1778 – October 15, 1852) was a German Prussian gymnastics educator and nationalist. He is commonly known as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics" Jahn.
Jahn was born in Lanz in Brandenburg. He studied theology and philology from 1796 to 1802 at Halle, Göttingen at the University of Greifswald. After the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in 1806 he joined the Prussian army. In 1809 he went to Berlin, where he became a teacher at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and at the Plamann School.
Brooding upon what he saw as the humiliation of his native land by Napoleon, Jahn conceived the idea of restoring the spirits of his countrymen by the development of their physical and moral powers through the practice of gymnastics. The first Turnplatz, or open-air gymnasium, was opened by Jahn in Berlin in 1811, and the Turnverein (gymnastics association) movement spread rapidly. Young gymnasts were taught to regard themselves as members of a kind of guild for the emancipation of their fatherland. This nationalistic spirit was nourished in no small degree by the writings of Jahn.
Early in 1813 Jahn took an active part in the formation of the famous Lützow Free Corps, a volunteer force in the Prussian army fighting Napoleon. He commanded a battalion of the corps, though he was often employed in the secret service during the same period. After the war he returned to Berlin where he was appointed state teacher of gymnastics, and took on a role in the formation of the student patriotic fraternities, or Burschenschaften, in Jena.
A man of populistic nature, rugged, eccentric and outspoken, Jahn often came into collision with the authorities, and this conflict resulted in the closing of the Turnplatz in 1819 and Jahn's arrest. Kept in semi-confinement at the fortress of Kolberg until 1824, he was sentenced to imprisonment for two years. The sentence was reversed in 1825, but he was forbidden to live within ten miles of Berlin. He therefore took up residence at Freyburg on the Unstrut, where he remained until his death, with the exception of a short period in 1828, when he was exiled to Kölleda on a charge of sedition.
Jahn was decorated by the Prussian government with the Iron Cross for bravery in the wars against Napoleon. In the spring of 1848 he was elected by the district of Naumburg to the German National Parliament. Jahn died in Freyburg, where a monument was erected in his honor in 1859.
Jahn crafted early models of the balance beam, horizontal bar, the parallel bars (from a horizontal ladder with the rungs removed), and the vaulting horse.
In honor and memory of him, some gymnastic clubs, called Turnvereine, took up his name, the most well known of these is probably the SSV Jahn Regensburg.
A memorial to Jahn exists in St. Louis, Missouri, within Forest Park. It features a large bust of Jahn in the center of an arc of stone, with statues of a male and female gymnast, one on each end of the arc. The monument is on the edge of Art Hill next to the path running north and south along the western edge of Post-Dispatch lake. It is directly north of the St. Louis Zoo.
In his time Friedrich Jahn was seen by both his supporters and opponents as a liberal figure. He advocated that the German states should unite after the withdrawal of Napoleon's occupying armies, and establish a democratic constitution (under the Hohenzollern monarchy), which would include the right to free speech. As a German nationalist, Jahn advocated maintaining German language and culture against foreign influence. In 1810 he wrote, "Poles, French, priests, aristocrats and Jews are Germany's misfortune. At the time Jahn wrote this, the German states were occupied by foreign armies under the leadership of Napoleon. Also, Jahn was "the guiding spirit" of the fanatic book burning episode carried out by revolutionary students at the Wartburg festival in 1817.
Jahn gained infamy in English-speaking countries through the publication of Peter Viereck's Metapolitics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind (1941). Viereck claimed Jahn as the spiritual founder of Nazism, who inspired the early German romantics with anti-Semitic and authoritarian doctrines, and then influenced Wagner and finally the Nazis.
Memorial in ViennaHowever, Jacques Barzun observed that Viereck's portrait of cultural trends supposedly leading to Nazism was "a caricature without resemblance" relying on "misleading shortcuts". Viereck's claims concerning Jahn's supposed cultural influence, and influence on Nazism in particular, are not supported by evidence. The writings of the German Romantics do not even discuss Jahn, let alone endorse him. Joseph von Eichendorf's 1823 comedy "Krieg den Philistern" is unusual in mentioning Jahn at all, but does so only in order to ridicule him. Wagner, much influenced by Jahn according to Viereck, never even mentioned him.
Scholarly focus on the völkischness of Jahn's thought started in the 1920s with a new generation of Jahn interpreters like Edmund Neuendorff and Karl Müller. Neuendorff explicitly linked Jahn with National Socialism. The equation by the National Socialists of Jahn's ideas with their world view was more or less complete by the mid-1930s. Alfred Baeumler, an educational philosopher and university lecturer who attempted to provide theoretical support for Nazi ideology (through the interpretation of Nietzsche among others) wrote a monograph on Jahn in which he characterises Jahn's invention of gymnastics as an explicitly political project, designed to create the ultimate völkisch citizen by educating his body.
Well thats a little story bout the founder of the turnebund that goes in all german talking contreys including Hitler native contrey austria, and thats where its beginn to be very intresting. Well the jahnisher turnbund mainly based on sport and formation took a 180 dg turn when in 1889 it was splitup by political resons in 4 versions namely The Deutscher turnbund of 1889 , the
Deutsche Arbeiter Turn- und Sportbund 1893, the Verband alldeutscher Turnvereine 1913, and the Christlich Deutsche Turnerschaft all whit politic and antisemetic ideoligy foundation due to the first " Arienparagraph " well documented and implemented in 1885 for all Sportvereine, Gesangsvereine, Schulvereine etc. and was highly antisemetic whit " only german and no jews allowed
" so imo its here the founding and the organized part of nazi ideoligy was born, thoe we cant call it nazi yet, both german and austrian was under this law, well know that hitler was not yet entering the stage, and he was living in a antisemetic contrey also raised in a highly antisemetic social Environment. well some of his inspiration may well be from this timeperiod but for that part i am proberly alone bec. that part i cant document, yet!!
Lets go a little further to 1919 2 september where these 4 verbande again put together, and as we know the 3 reich Deutschen Turnerbund 1919 was a reality whit both politic and a highly antisemetic agenda. The thule geschellschaft as we know it, was formed the year before namely in 18 August 1918 There is no evidence that Hitler ever attended the Thule Society at this time.
we are now at the time where these Turner members was called ( at the present time ) Hakenkreuzler-Turner whit a highly infection of the austrian and german NSDAP not yet in a leading role but watching and manipulating the basic agenda. Ill go a little further to the Anschluss 12. März 1938 where these turner members along whit the astrian SA and SS the night before occupied important public buildings so the wehrmacht had a pretty easy job which history confirms and imo sets the date for the anschluss in a bit controversial frame.
Now lets see some of my badges from that timeperiod which i have gathered over years along studding this part of history and theres much more to tell but lets see my badges now in kronologic order, and i can highly recomend collecting these badges which still go for a " humanized " price.
Hope you gents enjoy them as much as i.
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Some time ago i did promice some of you gents a wiew some of my early swastica badges from my collection or badges that are related to the antisemetic timepriod as we know it. First ill allow my self to invite you gents whit a little history arround this timeperiod which bring us back to the very early age or birth of Nazism.
My search in this subject starts whit the buildup of the root to the antisemitic area and later ending whit fullblood nazism, and to begin whit searching in the small or tiny part of history i did whit help from german arcives etc. discover relations or threads to this subject. well let me start from the beginning whit lookover the Deutscher Turnerbund and the developement whitin.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (August 11, 1778 – October 15, 1852) was a German Prussian gymnastics educator and nationalist. He is commonly known as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics" Jahn.
Jahn was born in Lanz in Brandenburg. He studied theology and philology from 1796 to 1802 at Halle, Göttingen at the University of Greifswald. After the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in 1806 he joined the Prussian army. In 1809 he went to Berlin, where he became a teacher at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and at the Plamann School.
Brooding upon what he saw as the humiliation of his native land by Napoleon, Jahn conceived the idea of restoring the spirits of his countrymen by the development of their physical and moral powers through the practice of gymnastics. The first Turnplatz, or open-air gymnasium, was opened by Jahn in Berlin in 1811, and the Turnverein (gymnastics association) movement spread rapidly. Young gymnasts were taught to regard themselves as members of a kind of guild for the emancipation of their fatherland. This nationalistic spirit was nourished in no small degree by the writings of Jahn.
Early in 1813 Jahn took an active part in the formation of the famous Lützow Free Corps, a volunteer force in the Prussian army fighting Napoleon. He commanded a battalion of the corps, though he was often employed in the secret service during the same period. After the war he returned to Berlin where he was appointed state teacher of gymnastics, and took on a role in the formation of the student patriotic fraternities, or Burschenschaften, in Jena.
A man of populistic nature, rugged, eccentric and outspoken, Jahn often came into collision with the authorities, and this conflict resulted in the closing of the Turnplatz in 1819 and Jahn's arrest. Kept in semi-confinement at the fortress of Kolberg until 1824, he was sentenced to imprisonment for two years. The sentence was reversed in 1825, but he was forbidden to live within ten miles of Berlin. He therefore took up residence at Freyburg on the Unstrut, where he remained until his death, with the exception of a short period in 1828, when he was exiled to Kölleda on a charge of sedition.
Jahn was decorated by the Prussian government with the Iron Cross for bravery in the wars against Napoleon. In the spring of 1848 he was elected by the district of Naumburg to the German National Parliament. Jahn died in Freyburg, where a monument was erected in his honor in 1859.
Jahn crafted early models of the balance beam, horizontal bar, the parallel bars (from a horizontal ladder with the rungs removed), and the vaulting horse.
In honor and memory of him, some gymnastic clubs, called Turnvereine, took up his name, the most well known of these is probably the SSV Jahn Regensburg.
A memorial to Jahn exists in St. Louis, Missouri, within Forest Park. It features a large bust of Jahn in the center of an arc of stone, with statues of a male and female gymnast, one on each end of the arc. The monument is on the edge of Art Hill next to the path running north and south along the western edge of Post-Dispatch lake. It is directly north of the St. Louis Zoo.
In his time Friedrich Jahn was seen by both his supporters and opponents as a liberal figure. He advocated that the German states should unite after the withdrawal of Napoleon's occupying armies, and establish a democratic constitution (under the Hohenzollern monarchy), which would include the right to free speech. As a German nationalist, Jahn advocated maintaining German language and culture against foreign influence. In 1810 he wrote, "Poles, French, priests, aristocrats and Jews are Germany's misfortune. At the time Jahn wrote this, the German states were occupied by foreign armies under the leadership of Napoleon. Also, Jahn was "the guiding spirit" of the fanatic book burning episode carried out by revolutionary students at the Wartburg festival in 1817.
Jahn gained infamy in English-speaking countries through the publication of Peter Viereck's Metapolitics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind (1941). Viereck claimed Jahn as the spiritual founder of Nazism, who inspired the early German romantics with anti-Semitic and authoritarian doctrines, and then influenced Wagner and finally the Nazis.
Memorial in ViennaHowever, Jacques Barzun observed that Viereck's portrait of cultural trends supposedly leading to Nazism was "a caricature without resemblance" relying on "misleading shortcuts". Viereck's claims concerning Jahn's supposed cultural influence, and influence on Nazism in particular, are not supported by evidence. The writings of the German Romantics do not even discuss Jahn, let alone endorse him. Joseph von Eichendorf's 1823 comedy "Krieg den Philistern" is unusual in mentioning Jahn at all, but does so only in order to ridicule him. Wagner, much influenced by Jahn according to Viereck, never even mentioned him.
Scholarly focus on the völkischness of Jahn's thought started in the 1920s with a new generation of Jahn interpreters like Edmund Neuendorff and Karl Müller. Neuendorff explicitly linked Jahn with National Socialism. The equation by the National Socialists of Jahn's ideas with their world view was more or less complete by the mid-1930s. Alfred Baeumler, an educational philosopher and university lecturer who attempted to provide theoretical support for Nazi ideology (through the interpretation of Nietzsche among others) wrote a monograph on Jahn in which he characterises Jahn's invention of gymnastics as an explicitly political project, designed to create the ultimate völkisch citizen by educating his body.
Well thats a little story bout the founder of the turnebund that goes in all german talking contreys including Hitler native contrey austria, and thats where its beginn to be very intresting. Well the jahnisher turnbund mainly based on sport and formation took a 180 dg turn when in 1889 it was splitup by political resons in 4 versions namely The Deutscher turnbund of 1889 , the
Deutsche Arbeiter Turn- und Sportbund 1893, the Verband alldeutscher Turnvereine 1913, and the Christlich Deutsche Turnerschaft all whit politic and antisemetic ideoligy foundation due to the first " Arienparagraph " well documented and implemented in 1885 for all Sportvereine, Gesangsvereine, Schulvereine etc. and was highly antisemetic whit " only german and no jews allowed
" so imo its here the founding and the organized part of nazi ideoligy was born, thoe we cant call it nazi yet, both german and austrian was under this law, well know that hitler was not yet entering the stage, and he was living in a antisemetic contrey also raised in a highly antisemetic social Environment. well some of his inspiration may well be from this timeperiod but for that part i am proberly alone bec. that part i cant document, yet!!Lets go a little further to 1919 2 september where these 4 verbande again put together, and as we know the 3 reich Deutschen Turnerbund 1919 was a reality whit both politic and a highly antisemetic agenda. The thule geschellschaft as we know it, was formed the year before namely in 18 August 1918 There is no evidence that Hitler ever attended the Thule Society at this time.
we are now at the time where these Turner members was called ( at the present time ) Hakenkreuzler-Turner whit a highly infection of the austrian and german NSDAP not yet in a leading role but watching and manipulating the basic agenda. Ill go a little further to the Anschluss 12. März 1938 where these turner members along whit the astrian SA and SS the night before occupied important public buildings so the wehrmacht had a pretty easy job which history confirms and imo sets the date for the anschluss in a bit controversial frame.
Now lets see some of my badges from that timeperiod which i have gathered over years along studding this part of history and theres much more to tell but lets see my badges now in kronologic order, and i can highly recomend collecting these badges which still go for a " humanized " price.
Hope you gents enjoy them as much as i.
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