Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing

Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (b. 23 June 1927 in München; d. 25 January 2009 ibid) was a German journalist, an intellectual patriot affiliated with the Neue Rechte ("New Right"), and the founder of the magazine Criticón. He was a conservative nationalist and Christian who opposed American and Soviet domination in post-World War II Germany.

Death

The death of Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing on January 25, 2009, brought an end to the career of one of the most insightful German political thinkers of his generation. Although perhaps not as well known as other figures associated with the postwar intellectual Right, Schrenck-Notzing displayed a critical honesty, combined with an elegant prose style, which made him stand out among his contemporaries. A descendant of Bavarian Protestant nobility who had been knights of the Holy Roman Empire, Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing was preceded by an illustriousgrandfather, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, who had been a close friend of the author Thomas Mann. While that grandfather became famous as an exponent of parapsychology, and the other grandfather, Ludwig Ganghofer, as a novelist, Caspar turned his inherited flair for language toward political analysis.

Writings (selection)

• Charakterwäsche. Ares, Graz 2004, ISBN 3902475013 .
• (Hrsg.): Stand und Probleme der Erforschung des Konservatismus. Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3428100522 .
• (Hrsg.): Lexikon des Konservatismus. Stocker, Graz 1996, ISBN 3702007601 .
• Abschied vom Parteienstaat – Tendenzen eines Umbruchs. MUT, Asendorf 1988, ISBN 3891820348 .
• (Hrsg.): Deutsche Identität. Sinus, Krefeld 1982, ISBN 3882892056 .
• Honoratiorendämmerung. Das Versagen der Mitte, Bilanz und Alternative. Seewald, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3512003176 .
• Zukunftsmacher. Die Neue Linke in Deutschland und ihre Herkunft. Seewald, Stuttgart 1968.
• Konservative Publizistik. Texte aus den Jahren 1961 bis 2008. FKBF, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814310-0-1

External links

• "Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing, RIP" by Paul Gottfried]
• "Conservatism in Germany: In Remembrance of Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing (1927–2009)" by Harald Bergbauer
• Literatur von und über Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek