Friedrich Wurzbach

Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Wurzbach [Würzbach] (1886 Berlin - 1961 Munich). Nietzsche scholar, Nazi sympathiser and convinced propagandist, was born in Berlin in the summer of 1886 to a Polish-Jewish mother and German-Protestant father.

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The Nietzsche Years (1919-1933)

In 1919 Wurzbach founded the Nietzsche Society in Munich.[1] Other members soon included writers and intellectuals such as Thomas Mann and [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal].

Nazi Propagandist (1933-1939)

In 1933 Wurzbach was appointed to head of World View [Weltanschauung] at the Munich city radio-station [Reichsender München].

Jewish 'Victim' (1939-1945)

Wurzbach’s attraction to Nazism is all the more curious as Wurzbach himself was, in the language of the Nazi Racial-Purity Department, “half-Jewish”.[2] Wurzbach was eventually fired from his position at the radio-station when his final plea for clemency, petitioned to Hitler, was turned down.

Post War (1945-1961)

Wurzbach escaped prosecution by the Allies after the war. He presented himself to the commission as a victim and was officially given the political all-clear in 1946. He then worked intermittently at the Vocational College [Volkshochschule] in Munich until his death on the 14th of May 1961. In those final years after the war he repeatedly tried, in vain, to regain regular air-time at the radio station from which he had been dismissed.

Würzbach Bibliography

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References

  1. ^ Max Werner Vogel. Chronik des Nietzsche-Kreises: Versuch eine Rekonstruktion. Ed. Beatrix Vogel. München: Alitera Verlag, 2007
  2. ^ BRHA, 14-9-1939

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