Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Protocols

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Editions of The Protocols
First publication of The Protocols Programma zavoevaniya mira evreyami
Writers, editors, and publishers associated with The Protocols Carl Ackerman · Boris Brasol G. Butmi · Natalie de Bogory Denis Fahey · Henry Ford · L. Fry Howell Gwynne · Harris Houghton Pavel Krushevan · Victor Marsden Sergei Nilus · George Shanks Fyodor Vinberg · Clyde J. Wright
Debunkers of The Protocols Vladimir Burtsev · Norman Cohn John S. Curtiss · Philip Graves Michael Hagemeister Pierre-André Taguieff · Lucien Wolf
Influenced by The Protocols The International Jew The Jewish Bolshevism · Mein Kampf
v • d • e

Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg (Фёдор Викторович Винберг), 27.06.1868-14.02.1927, was primarily responsible for the publication of the first German language edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was a friend and colleague of Piotr Shabelsky-Bork, with whom he collaborated and founded a yearbook, Luch Sveta (meaning "A Ray of Light"). The complete text of the 1911 edition of Sergei Nilus' book, The Great in the Small, was published in the third issue of this periodical (May 1920).

Vinberg was an ideological influence on the Nazi theoretician Alfred Rosenberg, who in turn influenced Adolf Hitler. Large parts of Rosenberg's magnum opus were lifted from Vinberg's writings. He was also a collaborator of Leslie Fry, with whom he co-authored the 1922 German imprint of the The Protocols.

1 Life & Work
2 Source
3 Works
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Life & Work

A Russian German born in Kiev, Vinberg rose to the rank of colonel in the Imperial Horse Guards. In the years before World War I, he became involved in extreme right-wing politics, writing for Black Hundred publications. After the February Revolution in 1917, he was imprisoned for his role in a plot to overthrow the provisional government. Later he found his way to Germany, where he developed his ideas in a number of writings, notably his ‘Berlin letters’ of 1919 published in Luch Sveta.

Vinberg was a loyal Russian monarchist with an aristocratic contempt for the masses. He called for "Aryan peoples" to unite against the "Jewish plan for world domination".

Walter Laqueur describes his ideas as "a half-way house between the old Black Hundred and National Socialism". Vinberg distinguished two kinds of anti-semitism: the "higher", concerned with restrictive laws against the Jews, and the "lower", the brutal and homicidal behaviour of the lower classes, which was terrible but essential if the Jewish menace, recently responsible for communist revolution, is finally to be laid to rest. Their task would be the complete annihilation of the Jews. He thus foreshadowed the Nazis' Final Solution.