What is truly the political direction of the CDU? Christian-social? Liberal? Conservative? Liberal–left? This was considered inactive in June 2022 in Berlin, during a conference organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Conclusions?
KNS plus Erhard
Prof. Norbert Lammert referred to the mission of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung), which is to supply "impulses to further make and strengthen the Christian-Democratic Movement". Referring to the current programme debate, he added that the CDU “cannot see himself as a walking monument”, But she has to absorb and communicate change herself. For the CDU this is now a substance of "reflections on its conventional strengths, reshaping programming and more accurate communication, for which it advocates".
In the first panel, moderated by Juliane Clegg from the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam, it became clear that the 3 concepts of “Christian”, “liberal” and “conservative” in the CDU program cannot be separated from each other, but have many interconnectedness. Dr. Arnd Küppers, Deputy manager of the Central Office of Catholic Social Science, stressed the importance of Catholic social discipline and "Christian personalism", which focuses on the dignity of the individual. He summarized his thoughts with a expression ‘Catholic social discipline plus Ludwig Erhard equal to the social marketplace economy."
Protestant Conservativeism
Dr. Matthias Oppermann, Deputy Head of discipline and Head of Contemporary past at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, extended these considerations, pointing to the influence of Protestant social ethics created in the German Empire on the ordoliberism that shaped the CDU. As the second crucial influence from the times of the Empire, he mentioned the ideas of national liberalism, which was characterized by the expressive affirmation of the state. Based on this liberalism, the CDU sees a strong but limited state as ‘freedom factor’.
Finally, Professor. Martina Steber, the second deputy manager of the Institute of Contemporary past and prof. of the University of Augsburg, explained that the CDU had good reasons not to focus on the concept of conservatism, which was heavy burdened after 1945. Nevertheless, there were links to Protestant conservatism of the Weimar period. In today's political discourse, conservatism is frequently utilized as a word of conflict – both from the left side against the CDU and in interior organization debates under the CDU/CSU. Steber advised the CDU and CSU to conduct it more offensively alternatively of avoiding a debate around the concept, due to the fact that ‘The discussion on this subject does not disappear’.
They've imprinted the party
In the second panel, led by Dr. Kathryn Zehender and devoted to the improvement of the organization and program during the CDU Chancellors Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela MerkelProfessor Dominic Geppert from the Institute of past of the University of Potsdam gave 3 main reasons for the success of the Adenauer CDU: Firstly, it proved to be an effective inter-denominational mobilizing party, implementing a successful "inclusive policy" of various – sometimes problematic – political forces. Secondly, Adenauer in 1949, opting for a "small coalition" with the SPD, clearly placed the CDU in the organization system. And thirdly, the social marketplace economy was an excellent recipe for success.
The critical summary of the Kohl era was presented by Prof. Thomas Biebricher from Copenhagen Business School. 1973 – 1998 divided into 3 parts. Between 1973 and 1981 Kohl definitely emerged as a organization modernizer and made professionalization and expansion of the national office. Biebricher placed the period 1982-1989 under the heading “Intellectual and moral changes”, although the applicable actions of the government were barely followed by this announcement. There was no “revocation”, which was hoped for by any and which others feared. As Chancellor of Unity Kohl was indisputable in the 3rd phase until 1998. Biebricher sees during this period the beginning of the "free democratization" of the CDU, which is the inclusion of aspects of neoliberalism in the programme of the party. Under Angela Merkel these aspects became even more visible.
Journalist and biographer Merkel, Ursula Weidenfeld, she went on to analyse various debates between 2000 and 2018 erstwhile Merkel was president of the CDU. The distance between Merkel and the CDU resulting from her résumé was and remained palpable. Nevertheless, she imprinted on the parties as president and Chancellor.
Which direction to go?
In the debate circular on the current process of creating the political programme, entitled "The CDU of next day – Already Today?", the Vice-President of the CDU took part in the political discussion by Dr. Carsten LinnemannVice-President of the CDU/CSU faction in Bundestag Nadine SchönPresident of the CDU faction in the Parliament of Brandenburg Dr Jan Redmann and Deputy Mayor of Berlin-Reinickendorf Emine Demirbüken-Wegner. Moderator was Mariam Lau from ‘Die Zeit’. As Linnemann pointed out in his inaugural speech, the Bundestag election of September 26, 2021 and the failure of power by CDU/CSU parties ‘as a turning point’. All the more crucial is the task of renewing the content of the party. The current deliberations of the programme committee on content set out 3 guiding principles: First, not from the collective, but from the individual; secondly, to be aware that only the penultimate answers can be given; thirdly, to believe that man is destined for freedom.
Demirbüken-Wegner listed as future central points the further profiling of the CDU as parties for large cities and integration policy, Schön – topics of digitisation and strengthening volunteering, and Redmann – climate policy. Linnemann formulated the overarching nonsubjective of the "great state reform" above the policy of the day. Various views have emerged on the introduction of the quota for women in the CDU. Referring to the advancement of the programming work, Linnemann summed up the committee's task by stating that the CDU needed a affirmative communicative for the future that would give people hope again.
Career of Hans-George Maaßen
Hans-Georg Maaßen Born November 24, 1962 in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine (NRW). From August 2012 until his temporary retirement in November 2018, he was president of the national Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). His behaviour and statements during the 2018 Chemnitz riots sparked quite a few controversy. A Conservative associate of the Werteunion group was until January 2022; according to him, this membership was inactive from 31 May 2021. On January 28, 2023, he became national president of the Werteunion. In the 1920 Bundestag election he competed as a direct CDU candidate in the Suhl constituency – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg and was defeated by his competitor Frank Ullrich (SPD).
Since leaving the position of president of the Maaßen Constitution Protection Office, he has drawn attention to the statements that have sparked controversy. CDU colleagues repeatedly called on Maaßen to leave the organization and distance themselves from his statements. Critics Maaßen accused him of utilizing language from the environment of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologists.
Hans-Georg Maaßen was born in 1962 in the Rheindahlen territory of Mönchengladbach and graduated from the Rheindahlen mediate School in 1982. He joined the CDU in 1978. He studied law in Cologne and Bonn as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In 1997, he doctored at the University of Cologne under the direction of Hartmut Schiedermair Work Die Rechtsstellung des Asylbewerbers im Völkerrecht (pol. Legal position of asylum seekers in global law). Constitutional justice and lawyer Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff She discussed it in 2000 on 4 pages in the professional diary "Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts". Lübbe-Wolff appreciated the linguistic clarity and transparent structure of Maaßen, but denied him a unilateral argument and selective selection of sources: “The author feels called upon to carry out his own thorough analysis of the existing case law only if it is not, or at least in part, it is not, as he intended”. The aim of the work is to supply evidence of unused space for a more restrictive exile policy, with Maaßen showing "a slight sense for procedures in general". She's making it up "Even the most distant hazard scenarios"if it serves his own argument. Maaßen's argument is not based on 1 source.
Head of the Constitution Protection Office
On 18 July 2012, the national Cabinet decided that Maaßen should replace Heinza Fromma as president of the national Office for the Protection of the Constitution on 1 August 2012, voting in favour of the proposal of the national Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU). Friedrich reported on the case of the individual representatives of the Bundestag faction on 16 July 2012. Maaßen's nomination was criticised from various sides, mainly due to his message against re-entry into Germany Murata Kurnaza From Bremen and later deficiency of remorse. Despite this, Maaßen was appointed by Friedrich on 1 August 2012 as president of the national Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and his inauguration took place on 10 August 2012 in Cologne. Maaßen declared that he wanted to reconstruct lost public assurance in the national Office for the Protection of the Constitution. On November 15, 2012, in the presence of Friedrich Maaßen in Cologne, the Joint Anti-Anti-Terrorism Centre (GETZ) was inaugurated.
Netzpolitik.org
In July 2015, Maaßen launched preliminary proceedings against 2 portal bloggers netzpolitik.org, listed in the charges, on suspicion of treason by bringing respective criminal charges against unknown persons, initiated by the lawyer General of the Federation Harald Range. Maaßen in consequence to the outraged media reaction explained that he clearly did not press charges against bloggers, which many have taken as an attack on the freedom of the press. However, it follows from the act of treason proceedings that Maaßen should have known that the proceedings were directed against journalists. Maaßen explained that the intent of the announcements was to find previously unknown "crets" that had passed on to bloggers qualified as BfV's confidential budget plan. The budget plan indicated that EUR 2.75 million was available for the creation of a fresh unit of the office ‘mass collection’, for example in social networks. The authoritative study prepared by Maaßen at the request of the lawyer General, on the basis of which he qualified the case as a possible betrayal and launched an investigation to break the statute of limitations, was classified. As a result, respective politicians – including Renate Künast, Bernd Riexinger and Christian Lindner – requested the resignation or dismissal of Maaßen.
Statements about a confidential informant in the Amri muslim community
Although a confidential informant from the national Constitution Protection Office was behind Maaßen's cognition in the vicinity of an muslim attacker Anisa Amri Before attacking the Berlin Christmas Fair at the Memorial Church, but in January 2017, in consequence to a parliamentary enquiry on the substance Maaßen claimed the opposite. In September 2018, it was revealed that Maaßen had commissioned in early 2017 to send letters to various press bodies via a law firm with requests for correction to suppress reports of spies to the Constitution Protection Office in the Amri area. According to Tagesspiegel, the Bundestag Committee of the Interior so decided to invitation Maaßen to the gathering on 26 September 2018, besides due to his contacts with AfD. During his evidence to the Landtag NRW investigation commission Maaßen stated on 29 October 2018 that his office did indeed have a confidential informant at the mosque that Amri occasionally visited, but that informant did not observe Amri and did not admit him in the photos. Maaßen's evidence has not been published.
Talks with AfD politicians
In the summertime of 2018, she was an AfD associate Franziska Schreiber stated in a book publication that Maaßen advised AfD leader during respective meetings in 2015 Frauke Petrahow AfD can avoid being monitored by the Constitution Protection Office. The author confirmed the allegations at a press conference on August 8, 2018, making a statement. The national Interior Ministry confirmed 2 meetings with Petra, but there were no recommendations or advice on how to deal with persons or AfD movements. Various opposition representatives demanded further explanations of this meeting. According to the information of the national Ministry of the Interior, Maaßen has since taken office held about 196 talks with CDU/CSU, SPD, Green, Left, FDP and AfD politicians, the content of which was ‘risk assessment’ and ‘general exchange of views’. "Active communication in the public and political space of the head of the BfV responds and responds to the explicit want of the national Ministry of the Interior to actively present outside tasks, capabilities and contributions to the safety of the Constitution's Office after the failure of assurance in the aftermath of NSU murders, including through it". Deutsche Presse-Agentur cited 237 talks that Maaßen had with politicians since taking office in August 2012, of which 121 with CDU/CSU politicians, 69 with SPD politicians, 23 with Green politicians, 14 with Left and 5 with AfD and FDP politicians.
August 11, 2018 AfD leader Alexander Gauland confirmed that he had an interview with Hans-George Maaßen. In a statement, the national Office for the Protection of the Constitution stressed that Hans-Georg Maaßen ‘naturally’ had no political sympathy for AfD. Furthermore, although the Constitution Protection Office regularly met with parliamentarians to discuss the safety situation, threats to organization politicians and attacks on organization institutions, it never gave advice on how AfD could avoid being watched. There was no board of the Constitution Protection Office to expel Björna Höcke from the party.
On September 11, 2018, it was revealed that, according to Gauland, 3 meetings took place with Maaßen. Furthermore, according to ‘Der Spiegel’, his dispute with state constitutional protection offices on the handling of identity traffic occurred (Identitäre Bewegung).
Union of Values vs Maaßen
On 16 February 2019, Maaßen made his first public appearance since his retirement, erstwhile he made a speech to members of the peculiarly conservative Werteunion in Cologne. In Criticized exile policy of 2015 and what he saw as the resulting threat of muslim terror; lamented the climate in which many feared to express their opinions freely, "not to be placed in the right-wing corner." On February 21, 2019, president of the Verteunion Alexander Mitsch announced that Maaßen had joined the group. In May 2021, Maaßen announced that he would suspend his membership due to the fact that he disagreed with his election as president Max OtteWho is close to AfD. However, Verteunion does not foresee dormant membership.
After Otte was proposed by AfD as a candidate for national president's office in January 2022, Maaßen in protest resigned his membership of the Werteunion on January 24.
On November 25, 2022, he announced that he would run for president of the Werteunion in January 2023. He was elected president in late January. Before the election, he said he wanted to "to advocate the enforcement of the objectives of Christian democracy, conservative and liberal values and against all eco-socialisms and gender-vokeisms".
Controversy?
In April 2019, Maaßen told Hungarian state tv M1 that there was inactive a large "Immigration pressure" Europe and Germany are not taking the essential precautions to minimise it.
In May 2019, in connection with the scandal in Ibiza, Austria, Maaßen commented on the publication of video recordings for the paper "Bild": "For many left-wing and left-wing extremist activists, 'to fight the right' justifies all measures. I don't think so. The application of specified active measures is simply a violation of taboo’. Maaßen besides criticised the engagement of German media in publishing recordings. Deputy Head of the SPD parliamentary group, Eva Höglsaid that Maaßen's statements were "contrary to the national civilian Service Act and the rule of moderation there”.
Speaking with the Deutschlandfunk radio in June 2019, Maaßen found it possible to think coalitions between his CDU and AfD in east Germany. He said: "I think in the current situation we will besides regulation out that specified a coalition will come, but you never know." He said the goal of the CDU must be to win the next 3 elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, then he would be able to form coalitions free of AfD. Especially in Thuringia, he said, there were no grounds for cooperation with AfD under Björn Höcke. Sees a advanced request for ‘conservative positions and values’ that CDU must service if it does not want to be "customer organization in left-wing green sector".
Federal Vice-President of the Christian Democratic Professional Union (CDA) Christian Bäumler then threw Maaßen ‘election agitation for AfD’; CDU rejected the coalition with AfD ‘without any buts’. erstwhile CDU Secretary-General Ruprecht Polenz stated that Maaßen trivialized right-wing radicalism. national Minister for the Interior Horst Seehofer He besides criticized Maaßen, saying that he sees a “very clear red line”: there is no “no cooperation and no coalition” with “right extremists”, and this applies “today and tomorrow”. However, he did not respect his support for Maaßen as a mistake at the time, due to the fact that he had "great respect" for Maaßen's competence and trusted him as a person.
In July 2019, Maaßen praised on Twitter an article that linked with the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (NZZ) titled In German Cities, Majority Society Faces Its End: “For me, NZZ is like 'western television'”. NZZ himself defended himself against this phrase, calling it a "historical insult" and highlighting the advanced competence of German journalists as well. Alexander Fröhlich He wrote in "Tagesspiegel" that in both cases Maaßen referred to the GDR and put its socialized and censored media on a par with today's West German media, while the word "Western television" (TV stations from the national Republic that could be received in the GDR and for many citizens of the GDR were considered to be a reliable source) associated with objectivity and reliability. Hans Brandt he criticized in “Tages-Anzeiger” that Maaßen thus considered “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” "what West German tv was for citizens of the GDR: a voice of fact and enlightenment in a country where no 1 can trust their own media".
In the same month, Maaßen merged on Twitter with the right- populist and AfD-related Journalistenwatch (JouWatch). It was about the presence of a squad of reporters from ARD magazine “Panorama” on board the Sea-Watch 3 ship, to which the captain Carola Rackette It headed for the port of Lampedusa with 40 refugees rescued in the Mediterranean. Jouwatch spoke of staging for ARD, making comparisons to Nazi St. Petersburg propaganda on cruise ships Kraft durch Freude, and journalists called "connection officers" and "traffickers' cones". Maaßen tweeted: “If this study is true, Panorama is no longer a western television”. He critically referred to this Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), who called the origin Maaßen – JouWatch – radically right-wing and wrote, referring to Maaßen's erstwhile position as head of the Constitution Protection Office, that "the assessment of sources and their reliability is the main task of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution".Mathieu von Rohr (‘Der Spiegel’) concluded that "It is worrying what conspiracy madness Maaßen shares".
Also in July 2019, Maaßen tweeted that the word "marine rescue" was wrong. Migration were “not survivors and not refugees. They boarded smugglers' boats to be brought to Europe shuttle".
To be critical, you don't necessarily should be right-wing.
In an interview with the “Rheinische Post” in the summertime of 2019, Maaßen explained that by people acquainted with him is "perceived as a socialist, or alternatively leftist" And as a realist. You're not. ‘auto-right’if climate and migration policy is criticised. According to the paper Maaßen wanted to cut the conversation short due to the fact that in consequence to his message that he did not join the CDU to "1.8 million Arabs arrived in Germany", asked him how he would explain this to his CDU partymate Serap Güler. Maaßen besides accused German media that they allegedly do not study violent exile attacks ‘For many daysIt’s okay. ” As an example, he gave the attacks of 4 refugees in the Bavarian town of Amberg on December 29, 2018 and praised "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and Russia present Deutsch for having been the first to inform about it. Welt notes, however, that both media only reported the incidental on 31 December, while ‘Welt’, ‘Bild’, ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ and ‘Focus’ reported the incidental on 30 December, on the date of the police's preliminary statement. Maaßen besides stated that he was the first to study on the incident.
In August 2019, Maaßen interviewed the weekly "Junge Freiheit" (JF), which is close to AfD. In an interview with “Tagesspiegel” he referred to the decision of the national Constitutional Court of 2005 in the case “Junge Freiheit” and took the position that JF was not extremist. His ‘target group’ is ‘Highly interesting’ for CDU due to the fact that it is "conservative and right-wing reader group to be acquired or recovered for CDU".
Maaßen besides appeared on the Russian RT Deutsch channel, and in late 2019 gave a lecture at the Conservative Library. He besides gave interviews “Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung”, a alleged “ Atlas Initiative”, whose founder Markus Krall publically advocates the abolition of universal elections, and respective times of the cultural diary "Schloss Rudolfshausen", a Christian fundamentalist and conspiracy ideological online writing, according to rbb, whose editor Helene Walterskirchen She has spoken anti-democraticly many times. Maaßen besides appeared on tv Berlin, which broadcasts propaganda to the government in Azerbaijan, and on the right-wing YouTube channel of entrepreneur Peter Weber ‘Hallo Meinung’.
With Twitter in September 2019, Maaßen one more time sparked a debate. He wrote: "We should think about reforming or eliminating public radio and television. They are besides much and besides expensive, besides thick, besides narrow and biased” and ‘unnecessary’. Maaßen received opposition from Green organization MP Volker Beck And national leader Juso Kevin Kühnertwho replied: "Replacing 'ÖRR' by 'Verfassungsschutzämter' in your tweet is inactive not a substantive contribution to the debate, but at least it's a small fun". ‘Berliner Morgenpost’ noted that Maaßen made these claims only a fewer days after Björn Höcke's interrupted interview (AfD) for ZDF.
In late 2019 Maaßen spoke on air Markus Lanza about attacks on exile shelters, which have increasingly been attended by middle-class perpetrators who have radicalised themselves. He wanted to get those who turned distant from the state; he meant ‘small workers’ and "normal people who attack asylum shelters".
CDU Statement
Former Head of the national Constitution Protection Office said he was seeking reconciliation in a dispute with the CDU leadership. “I sent the CDU management my message on the charges filed on the requested deadline and I hope that its content is conciliation”– said “Welt am Sonntag”, who is simply a CDU member. "I have no interest in showing up to get kicked out of the organization and I would like us to settle differences collegiately alternatively than in front of the public."
Maaßen has had quite a few criticism over fresh weeks. Last time I spoke to Alexander Wallasch on his platform, he stated that there was racism towards white people. It wasn't recognized. "in the expression of the green-red racial doctrine that whites are considered inferior, and that is why arabian and African men should be brought to the country".
Maaßen himself considers that the proceedings for exclusion from the organization against him are futile. "I will not be intimidated by the request for expulsion proceedings due to the fact that I do not believe that in any way I have fulfilled the requirements of the expulsion proceedings" – told the weekly “Junge Freiheit”. The newspaper, which appears in Berlin, was erstwhile observed for respective years by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia and is considered right-wing-conservative.
"I represent the positions of the basic CDU program and the positions of the CDU Adenauer, Erhard and Helmut Kohl – not the positions of the eco-vokeist organization elite" – he said. He had the support of many organization colleagues. Those who do not like what they represent should leave the CDU.
Maaßen favors extremist right-wings?
In mid-January, manager of memorial sites of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps, Jens-Christian Wagner, called on the CDU to break up with Maaßen. This postulate was reported in a guest article in “Jüdische Allgemeine”. The background is Maaßen's statements, who tweeted that the goal "The driving force in political and media space is eliminating racism towards whites". Thus Maaßen “he one more time reached into the cabinet with anti-Semitic poison” – stated Wagner. With a word. ‘eliminating’ He was deliberately referring to the Holocaust. Nazi crimes were compared to distorted images ‘racism towards whites’, whose goal is to destroy.
Elimination anti-Semitism
The deadline appeared in the survey Daniela Jonah Goldhagen. In 1995, an American sociologist and political scientist coined the word “an anti-Semitism elimination” for a social attitude in Germany to the judaic population.
With his book Hitlers village Vollstrecker – Ganz gewöhnliche Deutsche und der Holocaust (Hitler's voluntary executions – average Germans and the HolocaustIn 1996, he rekindled the debate on the causes of the Holocaust. Goldhagen put the controversial and scientifically disputed thesis that Hitler and the Germans slandered, persecuted and exterminated Jews for respective reasons simultaneously. For example, in Germany, the most extremist anti-Semites in past ruled at the time; what is more, most of the population has thought sick of Jews since the early 19th century. It would have an additional military force to take control of most of the judaic population in Europe. According to Goldhagen, this “eliminate anti-Semitism” was the social origin of killing more than six million Jews by 1945.
The manager of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps memorial sites, Jens-Christian Wagner said in “Jüdische Allgemeine” that ‘Maaßen should know that term. On its basis, Maaßen made a clear mention to the Holocaust’.
What is allowed CDU, is not allowed AfD
Certainly besides readers of “Polish Thoughts” in Germany met very frequently with the word AfD as a organization – far right, neo-Nazi or racist.
In fact, it is nothing more than filing concepts, the meaning of which they do not full understand, if at all. This is not something new, due to the fact that reading or knowing is simply a immense problem in Germany. Books and self-education are replaced by public tv and circumstantial transmission ‘narrowly targeted data transmission“.
In the example of the CDU and the Maaßen case, we see that any kind of behavior, statements in the environment, which are cut off more and more from conservative sources, are shocking, but to any degree there is simply a blind eye.
The criticism of AfD is mainly due to the deficiency of a desire to know the programming assumptions of this party, and very frequently due to the aforementioned "data transmission".
As I mentioned above, the objectives of the Union of Values or even any of Maaßen's statements do not disagree in any way from the content that promotes AfD.
There is no doubt: AfD openly criticises the current political and economical situation in Germany, where the CDU simply preserves it. It can so be noted that being a associate of the CDU, 1 can be a ‘conservative, controversial anti-Semite’ without major legal implications. If individual is simply a associate of the AfD, the prosecution is already curious in akin statements aka Constitution Protection Office. After fresh events with the scene Reichsbürger AfD's ideas of illegalization were changing.
AfD and Jews
The national Association of Jews in AfD, in short Juden in der AfD (JafD), besides called the judaic national Union in AfD, is simply a political association founded on October 7, 2018 by judaic members of the alternate organization for Germany (AfD). The president of the Federation since June 2021 is Artur AbramovichVice-Presidents are presently Marcel Goldhammer and Marcel Hirschand the treasurer – Dimitri Schulz.
The establishment of JafD was sharply criticized by the Central Council of Jews and another judaic associations. Publicist Micha Brumlik, who first pointed to his rise, wrote that the Jews in AfD had "far right organisations of predecessors’ in the Weimar Republic, listing established by Max Naumanna In 1921 the Association of National German Jews.
What direction are Germany heading?
When Oswald Spengler wrote his text Prussian Spirit and Socialism, he knew from the autopsy the Prussian state, this leading support force of Germany. It was the most powerful of the national states. respective decades earlier, it was Prussia that led to the unification of Germany on their own terms (i.e. by conquest). Spengler may have thought that the historical improvement of the Prussian monarchy had to end — it would be the final phase of the increase in force and the eventual phase of that force of destiny. The conditions in which Prussia developed, in which their mentality, law, institutions developed, proved to be so creative that Prussia had already given face to the fresh German state as an undisputed power.
Unfortunately, modern Germany did not take over these Prussian values.
"Demoliberal conservatism" is simply a model of the behaviour of today's politicians in Germany. Values specified as household (Woman and Man), become simply slogans, or, in another words, folklore. These concepts, of course, work, but present they lose their first meaning. household to be replaced Parents 1 and Parents 2 (sex doesn't matter).
The old German “conservative” parties, wishing to “go with progress” favour this. Anyway, Friedrich Merz besides stated that ‘There are at least 2 sexes’. Only specified “conservative” is accepted.
Being a Conservative in Germany, unfortunately, is not easy, because, on the example of my frequently cited AfD, we see that the strategy has allowed the organization to go to the Bundestag, but it is trying to discredit it in all way.
“After our fall, Germany hoped that life that we had left would be without Nationalism. But you don't settle for destiny. In destiny, you either lose or you win. The nationalist is the 1 who does not give in to the destiny of the Nation, but resists it.” – he wrote Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.
Matthäus Golla
