Verbindungsmann zum NS-Regime: Hans Wahl, der Antisemitismus und die Goethe-Gesellschaft

William Wilson

doi:10.1179/0959368315Z.00000000056

Verbindungsmann zum NS-Regime: Hans Wahl, der Antisemitismus und die Goethe-Gesellschaft

Translated title of the contribution: Liaison to the Nazi Regime: Hans Wahl, Anti-Semitism and the Goethe Society

William Wilson

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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Abstract

Several documents demonstrate Hans Wahl’s active anti-Semitism as well as his ties to the Nazi regime. Here his role as vice-president of the Goethe Society in Weimar was of utmost importance. Wahl attempted to protect the Society from harsh co-optation, cultivating contacts with Joseph Goebbels, whom he seems to have convinced of the ‘global role’ of the Society. At the same time, Wahl subordinated the Society’s new journal to Nazi ideology and sought to ward off attempts at control by the office of Alfred Rosenberg by playing up to Rosenberg, particularly by active participation in the party-line Nordic Society.

Translated title of the contribution	Liaison to the Nazi Regime: Hans Wahl, Anti-Semitism and the Goethe Society
Original language	German
Pages (from-to)	203-222
Number of pages	20
Journal	Publications of the English Goethe Society
Volume	84
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1179/0959368315Z.00000000056
Publication status	Published - 20 Oct 2015
Event	Conference: Hans Wahl in Context: Weimar Cultural Elites in National Socialism - Weimar, Germany, Germany Duration: 28 Nov 2014 → 29 Nov 2014

Keywords

Hans Wahl
National Socialism
Weimar
Nordic Society
Goethe Society
co-optation
anti-Semitism
Anton Kippenberg
Julius Wahle
Joseph Goebbels
Alfred Rosenberg

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The Goethe Society in Weimar, 1919 - 1949
Wilson, W. D.
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Verbindungsmann zum NS-Regime: Hans Wahl, der Antisemitismus und die Goethe-Gesellschaft

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