Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
17, (2008) 171-194
Keywords:
Förster, Bernhard,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Förster was one of the leaders of the antisemitic "Berliner Bewegung" and an author and sponsor of the Antisemitenpetition, and published numerous antisemitic writings. He dreamed of a German Utopia where the purity of the race would be restored, together with the German virtues, a German culture free of Jewish influence, and a Christianity without the Old Testament. For this he founded in 1886, together with his wife Elisabeth, the sister of Nietzsche, an agricultural colony in Paraguay, Nueva Germania. The colony failed because of lack of funds, the unsuitability of the site and of the settlers (some of them unsuccessful intellectuals from the antisemitic movement), and Förster's incompetence and lack of experience. In 1889 Förster died, reputedly a suicide. Elisabeth continued to run the colony for a few more years, but was resented for her domineering ways. She returned to Germany and spent the rest of her life editing her brother's writings, tailoring them to fit her and her husband's views; thus Nietzsche could become part of the Nazi canon.
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