Guida Diehl: Volksmissionarin, Frauenrechtlerin und Nationalsozialistin
Guida Diehl (1868-1961) was a pupil of Adolf Stoecker and a representative of the Christian-Social wing of German Protestantism. She was also an extraordinarily active, strong and self-possessed woman. Even though her involvement with religious, soical and political activities was multifarious, she...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1999
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1999, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 149-171 |
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| Summary: | Guida Diehl (1868-1961) was a pupil of Adolf Stoecker and a representative of the Christian-Social wing of German Protestantism. She was also an extraordinarily active, strong and self-possessed woman. Even though her involvement with religious, soical and political activities was multifarious, she is almost exclsuively now remembered in the historiography of the women's movement as one of the leaders of the Nazi women's organizations. This essay seeks to explain the variety of motives which led to her activities in these different spheres, and to demonstrate both the continuities and discontinuities, the contradictions and ambivalences which were reflected in the course of a long life. I come to the conclusion that the First World War caused a major change in her thinking. She developed from being a strongly-committed Christian Socialist to a fanatical nationalist and opponent of democracy. Nevertheless, even in supporting the Nazis, she believed she was committed to Stoecker's programme for the re-christianization of society. Her biography provides evidence of how susceptible large parts of German Protestantism were to the allurements of the Nazis, and at the same time throws an interesting ight on the attempts to come to terms with the past in the former German Democratic Republic. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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