Continuities of nationalist thought - a topic for agricultural history? Mathilde von Kemnitz-Ludendorff (1877-1966) and the Ludendorff movement

Agrarian-romanticized concepts of homeland and nature conservation have always been part of the formation of völkisch ideology and völkisch settlement concepts. The lecture deals with one of the best-known protagonists of the völkisch movement in the Weimar Republic, the doctor and anti-Semite Mathilde von Kemnitz-Ludendorff. Together with her third husband, the general and politician Erich Ludendorff, she led the nationalist "Tannenbergbund" and founded the ethno-religious association "Deutschvolk". Successor organizations of the Ludendorff movement, such as the extreme right-wing "Bund für Gotterkenntnis e.V.", still exist today. Annika Spilker, Dr.phil., cultural scientist and historian as well as director of the Eschwege town archive and town museum. Main areas of work: Historical gender studies, nationalist movement, history education: history of Eschwege.

Lecture by Dr. Annika Spilker (Eschwege)