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Caspar Von Schrenck-Notzing
Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (23 June 1927 – 25 January 2009) was a German writer, scholar and publisher. He was a leading thinker of the post-war political right in Germany. He is associated with the Neue Rechte, German New Right. Life Schrenck-Notzing was born in 1927 in the Bavarian capital Munich. He was a descendant of one of the oldest patrician and noble families of the city. Among his ancestors were the physical researcher and spiritist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, his grandfather, and the female aviation pioneer Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing, his grandmother. He later in life inherited from his father a considerable fortune and became a major shareholder in the companies WMF Group (tableware manufacturer) and BASF, the chemical manufacturer. After his “Abitur” exam at the high school (“Gymnasium”), Schrenck-Notzing studied history and sociology in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, University of Freiburg, Freiburg and University of Colog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neue Rechte
Neue Rechte (''New Right'') is the designation for a right-wing political movement in Germany. It was founded as an opposition to the New Left generation of the 1960s. Its intellectually oriented proponents distance themselves from Old Right Nazi traditions and emphasize similarities between the far-right and the conservative spectrum. A common denominator of the Neue Rechte is a skeptical or negative stance towards the basic tenets of the German constitution, often in the sense of an ethnic ('' völkisch'') nationalism. History When in 1964 the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) was founded, its younger members began to call themselves ''Junge Rechte'', in order to differ from Nazi models and to counter the German student movement. Contrary to their hopes, the NPD failed to enter the Bundestag parliament in the 1969 federal elections, whereafter they initiated a far-right renewal movement. In 1972, Henning Eichberg drafted the policy declaration of the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |