Heinrich Ernst WachlerRichard Frank Krummel: Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist. Bd. 1, unter Mitw. v. Evelyn S. Krummel, 2., verb. u. erg. Aufl., Berlin/New York 1998, p. 164. (* 18 February 1871 in Breslau; † September 1945 in Theresienstadt)Puschner 1996: 931. was a völkisch-neopagan and antisemiticWerner Stegmaier, Daniel Krochmalnik, Jüdischer Nietzscheanismus, Walter de Gruyter, 1997, p.389 writer, dramatist and publicist.Uwe Puschner: Die Völkische Bewegung im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich. Sprache – Rasse – Religion, Darmstadt 2001, p. 225.
Wachler's mother had been of Jewish origin but had converted to Protestantism in her youth.Puschner 1996: 767.
There is some confusion about the death of Ernst Wachler. Neopagan web pages Asatru Historical Time Line, The Seeker Journal: Who Are the Asatruar? (reprinted on Beliefnet.com) and print-on-demand booksJunker, Daniel. 2002. Gott in uns. Die Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte völkischer Religiosität in der Weimarer Republik. p. 18, 19, 97. A catalogue entry (mentioning that the book is print-on-demand) is available from the German National Library. make it appear as if he died as the victim of the Nazis in a concentration camp. Neo-völkisch writers allege that he was sent to KZ Auschwitz where he perished. The German historian Uwe PuschnerGerman Wikipedia: Uwe Puschner (Free University of Berlin) mentions that there are various speculations about Wachler's death, but that, according to two of Wachler's close relatives, Wachler died in the summer of 1945, after the war as an imprisoned German civilian, in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from Shigellosis.Puschner 1996: 793
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Literature Uwe Puschner, 1996: Ernst Wachler. and Deutsche Reformbühne und völkische Kultstätte. Ernst Wachler und das Harzer Bergtheater. In: Handbuch zur "Völkischen Bewegung" 1871 - 1918. Ed. by Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz and Justus H. Ulbricht. Munich and others
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