Hermann Ahlwart
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Hermann Ahlwart (b. 21 December 1846 in Krien in Anklam, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation; d. 16 April 1914 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire) was a German teacher and member of the German Reichstag and an outspoken opponent of the Jews. Together with Otto Boeckel he published the magazine "Deutsches Volksrecht" and together with him founded the Anti-Semitic People's Party.
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Life
Hermann Ahlwardt worked as an elementary school teacher in Neuruppin and Berlin. Between 1870-71 he fought in the Franco-Prussian War. After the war he was appointed Rector in 1881 at a Berlin primary school. From 1892 to 1903 he held a seat in the Reichstag.
The Jewish Question
Hermann Ahlwardt began his own investigation of Jewish corruption scandals. In some circles he was hailed as the second Martin Luther.[1] Ahlwardt was a founder of the Antisemitische Volkspartei (1891) and published the paper Der Bundschuh. He published several pamphlets; one titled Judenflinten sent him to prison for four months accusing a Jewish-owned weapons manufacture of supplying faulty equipment to the army.
Visit to America
In 1895 he spent a year in America and gave lectures in the New York area to German audiences. The Jews were hostile to Ahlwart and tried to prevent him from speaking. Future president and at the time police commissioner of New York City, Theodore Roosevelt, decided Ahlwart should be allowed to speak and provided him with a bodyguard contingent made-up of all Jews.[2]
During his visit to America Ahlwart campaigned for presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. He tried to start an anti-Jewish organization based in Brooklyn, New York[3] and he edited a short-lived German language paper Der Anti-Semit.
Death
In 1914, Ahlwardt at the age 67 died in a traffic accident.
Selected works
- The desperate struggle of the Aryan peoples with Judaism, 3 vols., 1890
- Part 2: The oath of a Jew (1891)
- Part 3: Jewish tactics, at the same time answer to Mr. Ludwig Jacobowski (1892)
- The processes Manché and Bleichröder, 1892
- The Jews and the Germans. A supplement to the Jews, 1892
- The Great Prophet. A reminder and parting word to my anti-Semitic friends, 1892
- The Jewish question. Lecture, 1892
- Ottering, 1892
- My arrest, 1892
- As the Jew does, Lecture, 1892
- Neue Enthullungen: Judenflinten (New Revelations: Jew Rifles, 1892) German text
- The Treaty of Germany, 1913
- Truths about a German mine in Bohemia. Rudolfstädter Erzbergbau-Gewerkschaft in České Budějovice. A reality novel of a modern kind with the usual accompaniments of suicide, madness and despair, 1913
- More light! The assassination of Friedrich Schiller, Lessing and Mozart before the Forum of Modern Literary and World History, 1914
- More light! The Order of Jesus in His True Form and in His Relations with Freemasonry and Judaism, 1919
