Eberhard Achterberg

Eberhard Achterberg ( born January 9, 1910 in Oliva, † August 11 1983 in Neumünster ) was a German scholar of religion, publicist, important Nazi official in the Amt Rosenberg and later a leading member of the German Unitarian Religious Community, university lecturer and school teacher. He is the father of Bernhard Achterberg.

Life

Eberhard Achterberg 1930 was a member of the NSDAP and also temporarily SA man since February. From 1934 to 1936 he published in Bernhard grief journal Nordic voices. In 1935, his contribution Germanic religion in the present dispute.

It was established in 1940 at the University of Jena with a dissertation on luck and fate in Germanic life. An investigation of the nature, occurrence and importance of Old Norse words for luck and destiny in the Islendinga sögur Dr. phil. doctorate. End of the same year he was appointed deputy " editors " edited by Alfred Rosenberg National Socialist Monatshefte ( subtitle: " The central political and cultural magazine of the NSDAP "). As of July 1941, he was her " chief editor " ( editor in chief ). Rosenberg took over Achterberg in his office, which officially represented an authority for the monitoring of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP. There he was from March 1942 to January 1943 Head of " Jews and Freemasons questions " in representation from August Schirmer.

Achterberg denied his Nazi past and never spoke publicly as formerly " Here and For -been " with her apart. In a letter to Erich Fried, he wrote in 1983:

After the Second World War Achterberg lived with his family in Schleswig -Holstein. He put his journalistic work at the German Unitarians on a new basis, which was heavily influenced by Albert Schweitzer. Achterberg was one of their key opinion leaders and " exceptional examples " and worked for 14 years as editor of the journal faith and deed - German Unitarian leaves (now Unitarian leaves ) where it mainly issues with questions of value orientation, the anti-authoritarian education, social policy and personal togetherness employed. Later, he was spokesman for the country's public corporation German Unitarian Religious Community in Schleswig -Holstein.

A teaching position for German and philosophy at the Federal Armed Forces University in Hamburg, was taken from him when one of his sons refused to do military service. In the 1970s he taught at the trade school in Plon.

Shortly before his death Achterberg 1983 elected " head of the Spiritual Assembly " of the German Unitarians. He died of a heart attack.

Writings

  • The German East - duty and obligation. In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, Issue 130, January 1941 12 born, pp. 14-20.
  • Not of God. In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, No. 152/53, Nov / Dec. . 1942, 13, born
  • Quo vadis, France? In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, January 1943 pp. 55-58.
  • Opposing forces in art. In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, Number 155 /56, 1943, Vol 14
  • Meister Eckhart. In: Faith and indeed, Issue 7/ 1960.
  • Faith in the Atomic Age. In: Faith and indeed, Issue 6/ 1962.
  • Man as wholeness and unity. In 1964.
  • Albert Schweitzer. A life in the new era. Helmut Soltsien Verlag, Hameln 1968.
  • Work for peace as a religious order. In: Faith and indeed, Issue 12, 1971.
  • Education for tenderness. In: Reality and Truth, Issue 2, 1977.
  • Values ​​as a guide in human interaction. In: Unitarian leaves, Issue 6, 1980.
  • Size and limits of religious humanism. In: The Humanist, Episode 8, 1982.
  • The force that sustains us. Search for meaning in a threatened world. 232 pp., Verlag German Unitarians, Munich, 1985, ISBN 3-922483-05-4 ( a posthumous collection of texts from 1952, created by his son Bernhard Achterberg )
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