Ernst Jünger - A century of life of Heimo Schwilk
The book deals with the life and works of Ernst Jünger. It is divided into 23 chapters with 568 pages. A closer examination of the relationship the chapter on the stages of life of discipleship is quite interesting. The first 50 years of life by Ernst Jünger be described by the author Heimo Schwilk in the first 16 chapters of the book, as he used for the last 52 years only 7 chapters. A clear focus on recently in the First World War, the whole 4 chapters are devoted.
The author claims to be the first time a comprehensive and accurate picture of the children and youth to publish disciples. This claim is also due to the fact that the treatment of life 1895 to 1925 dissertation were filed. Nevertheless, the concentration in amazement at the first 50 years of life, if you look at the entire works of Ernst Jünger, the most of his works since 1945, has written in his second half of life. There are, almost all published books, at least briefly mentioned and discussed as well as the content, but takes the book "Storm of Steel" is a relatively dominant position within the books in the biography.
The introduction of the book is kept in my opinion, with 3.5 pages relatively short. The author is there to primarily on the correspondence of to support disciples and some other documents to trace to the internal development of disciples and to look behind the self-stylization and disciples "to show as a child of his time." In the introduction Heimo Schwilk his personal acquaintance with Ernst Jünger, and this is by him described as very helpful because of the unrestricted access to the archive in the Schiller National Museum. Similarly, the contacts with the family should be particularly emphasized to disciple second wife, Liselotte disciples, and the publisher Klett-Cotta. From the former he had the "opportunity to demand and intimate conversation, "special allowed to Liselotte and the second contact him in the hitherto unpublished correspondence between Ernst Junger and his publisher Ernst Klett to inspect and quote from it. The largest source of the author, all works of Ernst Jünger, he used different editions of these. Especially with "Storm of Steel" This is of particular importance because it is from this book a total of 7 different versions. They differ not only by stylistic revisions, but also by adding and to stress later nationalistic passages were also some particularly gruesome battle accounts weakened later. Another source of letters from family members, friends and acquaintances from the national-revolutionary environment. Some of these letters have been published as books, while others are relatively hard to the general public not accessible. Even the books of disciple's first wife Gretha von Jeinsen, and his brother Georg Friedrich is available at the source notes, also some books, Festschriften to birthdays and even a few newspaper articles written about the disciples. I think it is still for quite noteworthy that the author repeatedly cites books that he himself has written or to which he has at least worked. These are among others for Auto Bild biography of Ernst Jünger in Heimo Schwilk was part of the editors. By working and personal acquaintance, I get the question of whether to take the author of this biography, because of possible friendly ambitions is still capable of a critical position to that described by them. After I had read the book completely and I could get a comprehensive picture, these doubts, however, have largely dissipated. A problem that could not be resolved, however, was that even this extensive biography of the countless works of Ernst Jünger often discussed only briefly mentioned, or even just has.
On March 29, 1895, Ernst Jünger was born the eldest of seven children in Heidelberg. Two of his siblings died in infancy still. His father, Georg Ernst Jünger was Protestant and his Catholic mother Karolina Lampel at birth by Ernst Jünger not yet married. This situation attracted his parents before his birth, from Munich to Heidelberg. Georg Ernst Jünger succeed over the years to accumulate some assets. The decisive factor was less of his work as a chemist, but speculation with potash and Ölbohrrechten, where there was a high profit margin. Because of the success in the workplace and other children, the family had to move several times. Besides the poor performance were the residence one of the reasons that Ernst Jünger eleven times had to change schools. Due to extremely poor Notes and the related non-promotion that school failure in mind, he fled to France in November 1913 to be enlisted in Verdun by the French Foreign Legion. Heimo Schwilk indicated the flight to France and joining the Foreign Legion as a disciple "way out in the fall," driven by pure desperation. Within days of joining the Foreign Legion disciples is admitted to an instruction company in the Algerian-Abbes Sidi-Be. An attempt to escape to Morocco from there penetrate into Central Africa will fail within a few kilometers. The rapid intervention of his father is Ernst Jünger eventually released and returned already back in late December 1913, after Germany. His difficult time at school and his escape to the Foreign Legion he is, decades later, process them in the books "The slingshot" and "African Games".
Shortly after the outbreak of the 1st World War II, graduated from the disciples Notreifeprüfung reports and voluntarily in Hannover at the "Fusilier Regiment, Field Marshal Prince Albrecht of Prussia, No. 73. After basic training, the reserve battalion, the disciples listened to, 29 December 1914 moved to the western front in the Champagne. After the first injury in April 1915 suggests a disciple of his father on the advice of the officer's career. After his return to the western front, he is soon promoted to lieutenant and platoon leader. He logs in repeatedly volunteered for dangerous patrols and patrol companies. Heimo Schwilk justified this behavior by looking for the danger and because of the high probability of being awarded with medals. He manages also to the end of the war to receive several awards, including the Iron Cross First Class and the Pour le Merite. In the four years of war, the Pour le Merite was only awarded 687 times, and Ernst Jünger was at age 23 the youngest Soldier who was awarded this medal. Besides the numerous awards he was but seven times wounded, including a lung injury which, as the author points out "many other things cost the lives of" should. Of special importance is the Ernst Jünger's war experiences from the beginning maintained in diaries, has until the end of the war, he filled 16 journals with his notes. Shortly after the war, he begins with the diaries Leave as a basis, the book "Storm of Steel" which appears in a 1920 edition of only 2,000. This has remained his most successful book that was translated into seven languages and was sold in German speaking countries alone over 300,000 times. By 1923, disciples served in the army of 100,000 men of the Weimar Republic. After retiring from the military realm, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in science studies. From there, he is also the reluctance to publish his political ideas. His contributions to the national revolution also appear among other in the "Nationalists observer" and a few weeks before Hitler's putsch in November 1923, he calls for a revolution under the swastika, which should lead to a dictatorship of national socialism. Although disciples sat at this time some hope in the Nazi party, he gave his views, which were in contradiction to the party, does not occur. Especially in the last years of the Weimar Republic, he is even partially against the Nazi Party. For example, he rejected the legality of the party, including its racial theory, Hitler and even from the leadership in the national movement in some way. It was also disciples too elitist and an intellectual exclusivity "considered what might have been another reason which, according to an initial area, built an ever increasing distance. Absolutely it should be mentioned here, however, are that its anti-democratic, anti-liberal and nationalist tendencies remained. The Nazis tried for a long time but Ernst Jünger to win for the party and offered him a seat in the Reichstag even twice, but that offer had been from him, in part, rejected in a very condescending tone. Because of this attitude and its still relatively numerous critical comments he seizure of power by the Nazi Party become the target of two house searches and some of his friends, such as the National Bolsheviks Ernst Niekisch be arrested. On the other hand, contact many of his friends and political allies to the new rulers, including Carl Schmitt, that the friendship between these two has almost stopped. Decided not to make disciples of active resistance and decides instead to aesthetic and literary to fight back. The book "On the Marble Cliffs" which appears in 1939, draws a slightly decipherable Criticism of the Nazi regime and is one of the few published books critical of the regime in the Third Reich. (Another, for example, by Oswald Spengler "year of decision" would be.) For the above reasons, I break down the description of the curriculum vitae of Ernst Jünger from here. write
A brief overview of the life of Ernst Jünger, simplify without risking too much, is almost impossible. I already had up to now remove much information and unmentioned aufzeigenswerte links , Otherwise I leave the scope of this review would have exceeded by far. However, I could represent the stage of life by Ernst Jünger 1895-1939, at least roughly.
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