Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Blätter für Deutsche Landesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
141-142 (2005-2006) 159-287
Keywords:
Nirrnhein, Hans
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Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1945-
Abstract:
The Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte (VHG), founded in 1839, was an ultra-conservative organization sponsoring papers on mostly abstruse topics. Many of the members had been at school and university together; at the beginning of the Weimar period this included many prominent Jews. At the same time, the VHG was closely associated, with overlapping memberships, with the antisemitic Patriotische Gesellschaft, the Zentralstelle für niedersächsische Familiengeschichte, and the Hamburgische Verein für Familiengeschichte, which published the antisemitic Hamburger Geschlechterbuch - all of them invaluable resources when it became necessary to prove one's "Aryan" ancestry. At the time of the Nazi takeover, the chairman of the VHG was Hans Nirrnheim, a former schoolmate and close friend of Aby Warburg. Nirrnheim sought favor in the new regime and distanced himself from his Jewish friends. When he retired in 1937, he was succeeded by Kurt Detlev Möller, a fanatical Nazi and antisemite. Nevertheless, while after 1933 Jews could no longer serve as officers, they could remain as members. Over the years they dropped out, until in October-November 1938 Möller expelled the remaining "non-Aryans", as the affiliated organizations had done long before. After the war, and until very recently, the VHG denied or ignored its Nazi past. Includes brief biographies of Jewish and "non-Aryan" members and their fate.
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