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HIELSCHER

In Armin Mohler's reference book "Die Konservative Revolution in Deutschland 1918-1932", we can get following information about Friedrich Hielscher

• Born in Guben (Niederlausitz) on May 31st, 1902 (AM doen't tell us when FH died).
• 1919: He volunteered shortly in the German Free Corps.
• Studied law in Berlin
• Chosed for a carreer as a free writer and novelist
• Hostile to Hitler, but received a small amount of money to perform research in the SS-run Ahnenerbe (Heritage of the Ancestors).
• Lived poorly as a forest dweller in the Black Forest in South West Germany.
• Founded a small Heathen Community
• Edited the magazine "Der Vormarsch" (The March Forward) in 1928, after Ernst Jünger and Werner Lass abandonned their task as editors.
• Edited afterwards the Journal "Das Reich" (The Reich) in 1930-1931 (This magazine shouldn't be confused with the later "Das Reich" of Dr. Goebbels).

• Except many contributions to collective books, only three books of Hielscher were ever printed:

• "Die Selbstherrlichkeit. Versuch einer Darstellung des deutschen Rechtsgrundbegriffs": This is his dissertation that he submitted to the German Professor Otto Koellreutter, who became a National-Socialist and remained it till 1942, when he quitted the party, after a quarrel with the protagonists of the totalitarian system (Koellreutter advocated the role of the English Judge, who was, in his eyes, the true incarnation of Germanic Law; he admired also the Japanese system, because even during the war years, Japan maintained non totalitarian forms and remained a traditional country united around the person of the Tenno, heir of a centuries-old Shintoist Tradition). Koellreutter started to write fundamental books on German law after the war, when all his ideas were fully matured (cf.: Robert STEUCKERS, "Otto Koellreutter", in: Encyclopedie des OEuvres philosophiques", Presses Universitaires de France, 1992). In this book, Hielscher makes a lot of references to Nietzsche, Spengler and Max Weber.

• "Das Reich". This is an essay on a theology for the German Reich (There is a link possible with Evola, who tried to rediscover the roots of Roman Imperiality, of which the german people is the legal heir according to the "Translatio Imperii ad Germanos"; on the othe hand Evola was fascinated by another Reich-Theologist, Wilhelm Stapel: cf.: Robert STEUCKERS, "La contribution de Wilhelm Stapel à "Il Regime fascista"", in Vouloir, Nr. 2 (new series), 1994).

• "Fuenfzig Jahre unter Deutschen" (Fifty Years Among Germans). This book is his autobiography.

Hielscher should have left an impressive amount of unpublished manuscripts.