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Place of Birth: Wesselburen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Adolf Bartels
- Adolf Bartels (15 November 1862 – 7 March 1945) was a pastor, German journalist and poet.
- Known for his völkisch worldview, he has been seen as a harbinger of Nazi anti-Semitism.Bartels was born at Wesselburen, in Holstein, and educated at Leipzig and Berlin.
- An artisan's son, Bartels studied literature.
- After 1895 a free-lance journalist in Weimar, he gained a reputation as a Hebbel scholar.
- In 1897 he wrote a history of German literature that was marked by racist evaluations and rabid antisemitism; it became a pioneering work for National Socialist literary reviews.
- According to Bartels, even authors whose names sounded Jewish, who wrote for the "Jewish press", or who were friendly with Jews were "contaminated with Jewishness".
- The noblest task of völkisch cultural policy would therefore be a radical de-Jewing of the arts, and thus the "salvation of National Socialist Germany" (German: National-sozialistisches Deutschlands Rettung; 1924).
- Bartels led a successful campaign to prevent the unveiling of a statue of Heinrich Heine in 1906.
- After World War One, Bartels' work experienced an upsurge in popularity, with his followers forming the Bartelsbund (Bartels Society) to promote his ideas; the Bartelsbund later merged with Erich Ludendorff's Tannenbergbund group.
- Bartels' work achieved "quasi-official" status in Nazi Germany, and Hitler personally awarded Bartels the Adlerschild medal, Nazi Germany's highest civilian honour, in 1937.Bartels died in Weimar on 7 March 1945.
- Bartels's further literary productions included Die Dithmarscher (1898), a historical novel based on his native region advocating ruralism, which sold over 200,000 copies by the 1920s, and Martin Luther (1903); these books are largely forgotten today.
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