Bismarcks Entlassung als Anfang vom Ende? Der Bismarck-Mythos in Autobiographien der Weimarer Republik und des frühen „Dritten Reiches“

• Authors: Marc von Knorring

Title variants

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Bismarck’s Dismissal as Beginning of the End? The Bismarck-Myth in the Memoirs in the Weimar Republic and at the Beginning of the Third Reich

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The Bismarck-myth, which glorified the founder of the empire as an omnipotent hero, boomed in Germany after the First World War. At the same time, the increasing genre of autobiographies and memoirs consistently asked about the nature of the perished Wilhelmine period. In doing so, many authors connected the Bismarck-myth with the fate of the empire. They adopted the connection between the dismissal of the first chancellor und the failure of his successors in foreign policy, which often was postulated in public, and supplemented it by the dictum of inner degeneration after 1890. Thus they extended the Bismarck-myth and supported the increasing demand after a strong leader.

Keywords

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Bismarck-myth; Autobiographies; Interwar Period; Wilhelmine Period

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
• Journal: West Bohemian Historical Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 169-191

Contributors

author

Marc von Knorring

• Institute for Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Passau, Philosophicum, Innstraße 25, D-94032 Passau, Germany