Thule-Seminar

The Thule-Seminar is an extreme-right nationalist organization with strong Neopaganist roots^[1] based in Kassel, Germany. It was founded in 1980 by Pierre Krebs,^[2] essentially as the German branch of GRECE.^[3] Sometimes described as a think tank or "party of the mind", its name alludes to the Thule Society,^[4][5] in an ominous analogy with the organization that facilitated the rise of the Nazis^[6] and provided some of the intellectual cadre for the latter.^[2]

It describes itself as a "research society for Indo-European culture". On its homepage, it deplores the formation of a "multiracial, i.e. monoprimitive" society in the "ethnosuicidal" cultures of Europe and declares its aim to be the formation of "metapolitical" ("metapo") cells across Europe. As emblems, it uses the Black Sun, as well as the combined Tiwaz rune (which is incorrect since "Thule" has a "th"-sound is should be spelled with a "Thurisaz rune") and Sig rune.

Its ideology has been described as based on the Conservative revolution and including elements of anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism and being close to apartheid.^[5]

The first major publication of the Seminar was "Das unvergängliche Erbe. Alternativen zum Prinzip der Gleichheit" (roughly: The everlasting heritage. Alternatives to the principle of equality), edited by Krebs and published in 1981 by Grabert Verlag; notably, the preface of this volume was written by Hans Jürgen Eysenck.^[7] It turned out to be the "programmatic" book of the Seminar.^[8] The Thule-Seminar publishes a journal called Elemente and another one called Metapo.^[5]

See also

• Neo-völkisch movements
• Nouvelle Droite

References

1. Uwe Backes (2011). The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 390. ISBN 978-3-525-36922-7.
2. Tamir Bar-On (2007). Where Have All The Fascists Gone?. Ashgate Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7546-7154-1.
3. Jan Herman Brinks; Stella Rock; Edward Timms (2005). Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalisation. I.B.Tauris. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-84511-038-3.
4. Jonathan Olsen (1999). Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-312-22071-6.
5. Cyprian Blamires (2006). World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 665–666. ISBN 978-1-57607-940-9.
6. Roger Griffin (1991). The Nature of Fascism. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-312-07132-5. The outlet for GRECE ideas in German is the Thule Seminar, a great nephew of the Thule Society which had such a formative influence on the infant (NS)DAP.
7. Margret Feit (1987). Die "Neue Rechte" in der Bundesrepublik. Campus Verlag. p. 80. ISBN 978-3-593-33775-3. Die erste größere Veröffentlichung des "Seminars" war der mittlerweile zum neurechten Standardwerk avancierte Sammelband "Das unvergängliche Erbe. Alternativen zum Prinzip der Gleichheit", der von Pierre Krebs 1981 herausgegeben wurde. Bezeichnenderweise schrieb Hans- Jürgen Eysenck hierzu das Vorwort.
8. Friedrich Paul Heller; Anton Maegerle (1998). Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten. Schmetterling Verlag. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-89657-090-1.

Further reading

• Friedrich Paul Heller; Anton Maegerle (1998). Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten. Schmetterling Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89657-090-1.
• Verena Rick, (14 May 1982) Der Sumpf ist fruchtbar noch. Die „Neue Rechte“ stellt sich vor. Das unvergängliche Erbe“ – Die erste Publikation des „Thule-Seminars“, Die Zeit, p. 48

External links

• Thule-Seminar homepage