Wirth, German

The early years

Born in the Netherlands . The son of a privat-docent, a doctor of theology , in combination - a gymnasium teacher who came from the Palatinate . Father, Ludwig Wirth - German , mother, Sophia Huysbert Bosch - Frieska . In 1904-1910 studied Dutch philology, German studies , history and music. In 1910 he defended his thesis on the theme "The decline of the Dutch folk song." In the years 1910-1914. He taught Dutch philology at the University of Bern .

In 1914 , after the German occupation of Belgium during the First World War, he supported the Flemish separatists and from the end of 1914 worked in the German occupation administration. He published the newspaper De Vlaamsche Post. In 1916 received from William II the title of titular professor. In the same year he marries Margaret Schmitt. In 1919 he was one of the organizers of the Völkish movement “Landbond der Dietsche Trekvogels”. In 1923 he moved to Marburg .

Activities in Nazi Germany

Herman Wirth's Theory

In the 1920s Herman Wirth communicates closely with representatives of pro-Nazi circles of the German Weimar Republic. In 1925 he joined the NSDAP (party ticket No. 20.151), however, the next year he left it, a little later joined the Marxist party societies, but then, in 1926 ^[5] , he returned to the ranks of the National Socialists ^[6] .

During these years, Wirth published several works, some of which were not recognized by the scientific community (in particular, he sought to substantiate the authenticity of the Frisian chronicle, which spoke of the death of Atlantis - the so-called “ Chronicles of Ura-Lind ”). Moreover, as noted by the politician, political scientist and researcher of Wirth’s work, Alexander Dugin

Russian historian A. V. Vasilchenko notes that ^[7] ,

Herman Wirth’s theory was an assumption of the polar, Nordic origin of humanity. In the north of the Earth in ancient times was the continent of Arctogeus, which was inhabited by superhuman Hyperboreans. Here civilization appeared, a kind of monotheistic prareligion , proto-language and other sources of world culture, subsequently subjected to desacralization, distortion and distortion. According to Wirth’s theory, the cause of these destructive processes was the racial mixture of Hyperboreans with the beast-like, underdeveloped representatives of the lower southern race, who inhabited another continent - Gondwana . Due to the cooling and deterioration of the climate, the northern superrace began to move south, where it was mixed. Those representatives of the super race who remained in Arktogey for the greatest amount of time gave rise to the Nordic race in the understanding of Wirth's contemporaries during the Mesolithic and Neolithic period ^[6] .

According to Herman Virtu ^[8] ,

Wirth’s work received a lively response in Völkish circles, and in 1932 the Mecklenburg government organized for Wirth a “Research Institute for the Prehistory of the Spirit” (Forschungsinstitut für Geistesurgeschichte) in Bad Doberan . In 1934, Wirth was restored to the NSDAP and joined the SS (membership number 258.776). Hitler spoke approvingly of a number of Wirth’s works, in particular, “Signs and Soul of the Swastika” of 1933, but also stated ^[7] :

Anenerbe Period

In 1935 he became one of the founders and the first director of the Anenerbe Society (he headed it until 1937 ). In 1938, due to ideological disagreements with Himmler, who, in particular, did not share Wirth’s theories regarding matriarchy in German society (Das Mutterrecht), was dismissed from Anenerbe , while remaining a voluntary assistant to society until 1945 ^[9] . After Wirth, Anenerbe was led by Walter Wüst ( German: Walter Wüst ).

After the war

In 1945-1947 was interned by American troops, then left for Sweden, but in 1954 he returned to Marburg, where he led the private life of a scientist. Wirth’s ideas about the origin of America’s autochthonous population in the 1970s resonated unexpectedly from the North American Indians . Willy Brandt visited Wirth in 1979, and the government of Rhineland-Palatinate suggested that the scientist create a museum for his ethnographic collection ^[10] .

• Der Untergang des niederländischen Volksliedes , 1911 .
• Niederländisch-Deutsch. Berlin, [1913].
• Ein Hähnlein wolln'n wir rupfen. Jena, 1914.
• Das alte Flandern. Leipzig, [1916].
• Vlämisch. Berlin, [1916].
• Der Aufgang der Menschheit: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Religion, Symbolik und Schrift der atlantisch-nordischen Rasse , Jena, 1928
• Was heißt deutsch? Ein Urgeistesgeschichtlicher Rückblick zur Selbstbesinnung und Selbstbestimmung , Jena, 1931 .
• Vom Ursprung und Sinn des Hakenkreuzes. Leipzig, 1933.
• Die Ura-Linda-Chronik. Leipzig, 1933.
• Führer durch die erste urreligionsgeschichtliche Ausstellung "Der Heilbringer". Berlin, 1933.
• Heilige Wende. Leipzig, 1933.
• Die heilige Urschrift der Menschheit: symbolgeschichtliche Untersuchungen diesseits und jenseits des Nordatlantik , Leipzig, 1936 (twee delen)
• Urmonotheismus , 1955
• Die symbolhistorische Methode , 1955
• Eurasische Prolegomena , 1955
• Um den Ursinn des Menschseins: die Werdung einer neuen Geisteswissenschaft , Wien, 1960 .
• Der neue Externsteine-Führer. Marburg / L., 1969.
• Die Frage der Frauenberge - eine europäische Gegenwartsfrage. Marburg / L., [1972].
• Allmutter. Marburg / L., 1974.
• Führer durch das Ur-Europa-Museum. Marburg / L., 1975.
• Europäische Urreligion und die Externsteine. Wien, 1980.

• Wirth, Herman. Chronicle of Ur Linda. The most ancient history of Europe = Die Ura Linda Chronik, 1933. - Moscow: Veche, 2007. - 624 p. - (Ariana Mystica). - ISBN 978-5-9533-1733-7 .
• Herman Wirth. The Sacred Five and the Feminine - From the book “The Original Sacred Writing of Humanity” (Leipzig, 1931) // Empire of the Spirit. Religion magazine
• Dugin A. G. "Hyperborean theory . " M., 1993; - devoted to the description of racial and other theories of Herman Wirth
• Dugin A.G. Signs of the Great Nord. Hyperborean theory. - M .: Veche, 2008 .-- S. 320. - ISBN 978-5-9533-3352-8 .
• Hermann Langer. Der Mann, der mit den Medien tanzte: zum Wirken Herman Wirths in Mecklenburg 1932/33. In: Zeitgeschichte regional, Bd. 7 (2003), 2. S.30–42.
• Luitgard Löw. På oppdrag for Himmler: Herman Wirths ekspedisjoner til Skandinavias hellerestninger. In: Jakten på Germania (Oslo, 2009).
• Dies .: Völkische Deutungen prähistorischer Sinnbilder. Herman Wirth und sein Umfeld. In: Uwe Puschner und Georg Ulrich Großmann (Hrsg.): Völkisch und national. Zur Aktualität alter Denkmuster im 21. Jahrhundert. (Wissenschaftliche Beibände zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Band 29). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2009.