Karl Otto Paetel
Group of Social-Revolutionary Nationalists Gruppe Sozialrevolutionärer Nationalisten | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Karl Otto Paetel |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Dissolved | 1935 |
| Ideology | National Bolshevism |
| Political position | Syncretic |
| Election symbol | |
| Sword Hammer Scythe | |
Karl Otto Paetel (23 November 1906 – 4 May 1975) was a German political journalist. During the 1920s, he was a prominent exponent of National Bolshevism. During the 1930s, he became a member of the anti-Nazi German resistance in Germany .
Early Life and Career
Paetel was born on 23 November 1906 in Berlin,Prussia in Germany .[1] He attended the Siemens-Oberrealschule where he got involved in the Köngener Bund youth group.[1] He later studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin.[1]
Paetel was involved in the German Youth Movement and became a prominent leader in the Deutsche Freischar that formed part of it.[1] He belonged to its "national revolutionary" tendency, which sought to marry elements of both the radical left and the radical right in order to form a Third Position between the Nazi Party and the Communist Party of Germany. To this end he established his own Arbeitsring Junge Front and subsequently the Group of Social-Revolutionary Nationalists to promulgate his syncretic views.[2] The latter group was established in 1930 due to his disillusionment with the Nazi Party, a group he had hitherto been well disposed towards, as he felt that their revolutionary rhetoric was insincere and that their essential nature was conservative.[3] Nonetheless, he felt that the Nazi Party still contained "useful" revolutionary elements and was particularly active in attempting to win over members of the Hitler Youth to his side.[4] In 1930 he became co-editor of Die Kommenden with the prominent German nationalist and World War 1 Army veteran Ernst Jünger.[1]
After escaping from internment by the French police in May 1940, he fled via southern France to Spain, and then to New York in America . There, he resumed his journalistic activities and worked as a correspondent. In 1943, he married his fiancée Elisabeth Zerner. After the war, he edited the magazine Deutsche Gegenwart and wrote about Jünger. In 1975, he died in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City.[5]
Selected bibliography
Modern Day National Bolshevism
Although Karl Otto Paetel never took power in East Germany in 1949 after World War 2 and the defeat of Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler while in exile and died in 1975 in America he would see the Juche idea in North Korea created by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il his vision of German Nazbolism but Korean .
- Beefsteak Nazi
- Ernst Niekisch and the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany
- German resistance to Nazism
References
- ^ a b c d e Karl M. Otto Paetel Papers, 1907-1984, accessed 17 December 2011
- ^ Timothy S. Brown, Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance, Berghahn Books, 2009, pp. 31-32
- ^ Brown, Weimar Radicals, p. 78
- ^ Brown, Weimar Radicals, p. 134
- ^ Diethart Kerbs: Walter Reuter: Berlin - Madrid - Mexico, 1906-2005. A life of Bund origins. In: Botho Brachmann, Helmut Knüppel, Joachim-Felix Leonhard and Julius H. Schoeps (eds.): The Art of Networking. Festschrift for Wolfgang Hempel. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86650-344-X, p. 116 ([Online http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fhpotsdam/files/14/Kerbs.pdf PDF], accessed April 17, 2013).