Eberhard Achterberg
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Eberhard Achterberg was a religious scholar, journalist, more important Nazi
official in the Rosenberg office and later a leading member of the German Unitarian Religious Community, university lecturer and school teachers. He is the father of Bernhard Achterberg.
man. From 1934 to 1936 he published of Bernhard Kummer sNordic Journal of votes. 1935, his contribution Germanic religion appeared in the present dispute.
It was in 1940 at the University of Jena with a thesis onluck and fate in Germanic life. An investigation of the nature, prevalence and significance of the Old Norse word for luck and fate in the Islendinga sögur Dr. phil. PhD. End of that year he became deputy "editor" of the "key political and cultural magazine of the Nazi Party," as the subtitle, the National Socialist Monatshefte, which are of Alfred Rosenberg
published. From July 1941, he was their "main editor (editor). Rosenberg took over Achterberg in his office, which officially launched a service for the monitoring of the entire spiritual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP represented. There he was from March 1942 to January 1943 Head of "Jews and Freemasons questions" on behalf of August Schirmer.
Achterberg, denied his Nazi past and never put the public apart than once "But this has-been and" with it. In a letter to Abraham Lincoln
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 footing, which was strong by Albert Schweitzer
marked. Achterberg was one of their key opinion leaders and "outstanding exponent" Peter and worked for 14 years as editor of the magazinefaith and action - German Unitarian Leaves(today: Unitarianleaves), where it mainly issues with questions about the value orientation, the anti-authoritarian education have employed the company policy, and personal interaction. Later, he was spokesman for the state public body German Unitarian Religious Community in Schleswig-Holstein
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A teaching point 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 Vocational College in Plön.
Shortly before his death Achterberg was elected in 1983, the spiritual head of the Council of the German Unitarians. He died of a heart attack.
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
official in the Rosenberg office and later a leading member of the German Unitarian Religious Community, university lecturer and school teachers. He is the father of Bernhard Achterberg.
Biography
Eberhard Achterberg since February 1930 was a member of the Nazi, sometimes also SASturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
man. From 1934 to 1936 he published of Bernhard Kummer sNordic Journal of votes. 1935, his contribution Germanic religion appeared in the present dispute.
It was in 1940 at the University of Jena with a thesis onluck and fate in Germanic life. An investigation of the nature, prevalence and significance of the Old Norse word for luck and fate in the Islendinga sögur Dr. phil. PhD. End of that year he became deputy "editor" of the "key political and cultural magazine of the Nazi Party," as the subtitle, the National Socialist Monatshefte, which are of Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg
' was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government...
published. From July 1941, he was their "main editor (editor). Rosenberg took over Achterberg in his office, which officially launched a service for the monitoring of the entire spiritual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP represented. There he was from March 1942 to January 1943 Head of "Jews and Freemasons questions" on behalf of August Schirmer.
Achterberg, denied his Nazi past and never put the public apart than once "But this has-been and" with it. In a letter to Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
he wrote in 1983:
- For half a century has passed since our "takeover" passed. Still, the guesswork, as it could have happened. Only we, who were active at the time of conviction here, we must be silent still, we can not say what moved us then, as it looked in the Republic. Our contribution to the elucidation of what had been before 1933, is undesirable. You will only hear the witnesses, all of which were even then "it". That gives it necessarily a bad image and with so my opinion does not help to prevent the dangers of the future. And the new signs are frightening. I see no risk in the "Neo-Nazis," I see with great concern the growing xenophobia, which is still effective, old Nazi enemy of communism, in the popular sentiment for capital punishment in the resistance against liberalization in prison, in both criminal and sexual area (§ § 218 and 175). I see a danger in the increasing violence on the part of the "authorities" against the citizens of discrimination in the peace movement and the restriction of fundamental rights. Because I was convinced it was active, so I would advocate that such a development is not a must repeat.
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 footing, which was strong by Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...
marked. Achterberg was one of their key opinion leaders and "outstanding exponent" Peter and worked for 14 years as editor of the magazinefaith and action - German Unitarian Leaves(today: Unitarianleaves), where it mainly issues with questions about the value orientation, the anti-authoritarian education have employed the company policy, and personal interaction. Later, he was spokesman for the state public body German Unitarian Religious Community in Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
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A teaching point 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 Vocational College in Plön.
Shortly before his death Achterberg was elected in 1983, the spiritual head of the Council of the German Unitarians. He died of a heart attack.
Publications
- The German East - the role and commitment. In: National Socialist Monatshefte, No. 130, Jan. 1941, 12th Jg, p. 14-20
- Not of God. In: National Socialist Monatshefte, No. 152/53, Nov. / Dec. 1942, 13 Jg
- Quo vadis,In France: National Socialist Monatshefte, Jan. 1943, p. 55-58
- Opposing forces in art. In: National Socialist Monatshefte, No. 155/56, 1943, 14 Jg
- Meister Eckhart. In: Faith and deeds, Issue 7 / 1960
- Faith in the nuclear age. In: Faith and deeds, Issue 6 / 1962
- The human being as a totality and unity. 1964
- Albert Schweitzer. A life in the new era. Helmut Soltsien Verlag, Hameln 1968
- Work for peace as a religious order. In: Faith and deeds, Issue 12, 1971
- Education for tenderness. In: reality and truth, Issue 2, 1977
- Values as a guide in human relations. 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 p., Verlag German Unitarians, Munich 1985 ISBN 3-922483-05-4 (a posthumous collection of texts from 1952, completed by his son Bernhard Achterberg)