Adolf Bartels

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Adolf Bartels (15 November 1862 – 7 March 1945) was a German journalist, writer and poet, known today mainly for his antisemitic and national-socialist stance.^[1]

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.^[1] 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.^[1]

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,^[2] and Martin Luther (1903).

• Gedichte (1889)
• Dichterleben (1890)
• Aus der meerumschlungenen Heimat (1895)
• Der dumme Teufel, a mock epic (1896)
• Martin Luther, a trilogy (1903)

• Friedrich Gessler (1892)
• Die deutsche Dichtung der Gegenwart (1897)
• Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur (two volumes, 1901-02)
• Adolf Stern (1905)
• Heinrich Heine (1906)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1906)
• Deutsche Literatur. Einsichten und Aussichten (1907)
• Deutsches Schrifttum (1911)

• Fuller, Steven Nyole. Nazis' Literary Grandfather: Adolf Bartels and Cultural Extremism, 1871-1945, Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1996 (ISBN 0-8204-2329-7).
• Rees, Philip. Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1991, (ISBN 0-13-089301-3).
• Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Macmillan, New York. ISBN 0-02-897502-2
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

• Newspaper clippings about Adolf Bartels in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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