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The Thule-Seminar is a far-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] one of the organizations 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 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 (translation: "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]

References

^ Uwe Backes (2011). The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 390. ISBN 978-3-525-36922-7.
^ ^a ^b Tamir Bar-On (2007). Where Have All The Fascists Gone?. Ashgate Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7546-7154-1.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cyprian Blamires (2006). World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 665–666. ISBN 978-1-57607-940-9.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Friedrich Paul Heller [in German]; Anton Maegerle (1998). Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten. Schmetterling Verlag. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-89657-090-1.

External links

Official website

[Backes2011-1] Uwe Backes (2011). The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 390. ISBN 978-3-525-36922-7.

[Bar-On2007-2] Tamir Bar-On (2007). Where Have All The Fascists Gone?. Ashgate Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7546-7154-1.

[BrinksRock2005-3] 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.

[Olsen1999-4] 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.

[ABC-5] Cyprian Blamires (2006). World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 665–666. ISBN 978-1-57607-940-9.

[Griffin1991-6] 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.

[Feit1987-7] 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.

[HellerMaegerle1998-8] Friedrich Paul Heller [in German]; Anton Maegerle (1998). Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten. Schmetterling Verlag. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-89657-090-1.

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+{{Short description|German far-right ethnonationalist organization}}
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+[[File:Thule-Seminar_Logo.svg|thumb|Combined [[Tyr rune]] and [[Sig rune]] of the Thule-Seminar.]]
-The '''[[Thule]]-Seminar''' is an [[extreme-right]] nationalist organization with strong [[Neopagan]]ist roots<ref name="Backes2011">{{cite book|author=Uwe Backes|title=The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RBnmachN8vkC&pg=PA390|year=2011|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=978-3-525-36922-7|page=390}}</ref> based in [[Kassel]], [[Germany]]. It was founded in 1980 by [[Pierre Krebs]],<ref name="Bar-On2007">{{cite book|author=[[Tamir Bar-On]]|title=Where Have All The Fascists Gone?|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OcaHOPaa0iMC&pg=PA88|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-0-7546-7154-1|page=88}}</ref> essentially as the German branch of [[Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne|GRECE]].<ref name="BrinksRock2005">{{cite book|author1=Jan Herman Brinks|author2=Stella Rock|author3=Edward Timms|title=Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalisation|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=eLqVMOmEsisC&pg=PA125|year=2005|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-038-3|page=125}}</ref> Sometimes described as a [[think tank]] or "party of the mind", its name alludes to the [[Thule Society]],<ref name="Olsen1999">{{cite book|author=Jonathan Olsen|title=Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=okm3UoSBUvoC&pg=PA172|year=1999|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-22071-6|page=172}}</ref><ref name="ABC">{{cite book|author=Cyprian Blamires|title=World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&pg=PA665|year=2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-940-9|pages=665–666}}</ref> in an ominous analogy with the organization that facilitated the rise of the [[Nazi]]s<ref name="Griffin1991">{{cite book|author=[[Roger Griffin]]|title=The Nature of Fascism|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fcn5ZtaPc7oC&pg=PA169|year=1991|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-07132-5|pages=169|quote="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."}}</ref> and provided some of the intellectual cadre for the latter.<ref name="Bar-On2007"/>
+The '''[[Thule]]-Seminar''' is a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] nationalist organization with strong [[Neopagan]]ist roots<ref name="Backes2011">{{cite book|author=Uwe Backes|author-link=Uwe Backes|title=The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBnmachN8vkC&pg=PA390|year=2011|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=978-3-525-36922-7|page=390}}</ref> based in [[Kassel]], [[Germany]]. It was founded in 1980 by '''Pierre Krebs''',<ref name="Bar-On2007">{{cite book|author=Tamir Bar-On|title=Where Have All The Fascists Gone?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcaHOPaa0iMC&pg=PA88|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-0-7546-7154-1|page=88}}</ref> essentially as the German branch of [[Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne|GRECE]].<ref name="BrinksRock2005">{{cite book|author1=Jan Herman Brinks|author2=Stella Rock|author3=Edward Timms|author3-link=Edward Timms|title=Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalisation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLqVMOmEsisC&pg=PA125|year=2005|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-038-3|page=125}}</ref> Sometimes described as a [[think tank]] or "party of the mind", its name alludes to the [[Thule Society]],<ref name="Olsen1999">{{cite book|author=Jonathan Olsen|title=Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okm3UoSBUvoC&pg=PA172|year=1999|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-22071-6|page=172}}</ref><ref name="ABC">{{cite book|author=Cyprian Blamires|title=World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&pg=PA665|year=2006|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=978-1-57607-940-9|pages=665–666}}</ref> one of the organizations that facilitated the rise of the [[Nazi]]s<ref name="Griffin1991">{{cite book|author=Roger Griffin|author-link=Roger Griffin|title=The Nature of Fascism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcn5ZtaPc7oC&pg=PA169|year=1991|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-07132-5|pages=169|quote="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."}}</ref> and provided some of the intellectual cadre for the latter.<ref name="Bar-On2007"/>
-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 (occult symbol)|Black Sun]], as well as the [[bind rune|combined]] [[Tiwaz rune]] (which is incorrect since "Thule" has a "th"-sound is should be spelled with a "[[Thurisaz rune]]") and [[Sig rune]].
+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 (occult symbol)|Black Sun]], as well as the [[bind rune|combined]] [[Tiwaz 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]].<ref name="ABC"/>
-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]].<ref name="Feit1987">{{cite book|author=Margret Feit|title=Die "Neue Rechte" in der Bundesrepublik|year=1987|publisher=Campus Verlag|isbn=978-3-593-33775-3|quote=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.|page=80}}</ref> It turned out to be the "programmatic" book of the Seminar.<ref name="HellerMaegerle1998">{{cite book|author1=Friedrich Paul Heller|author2=Anton Maegerle|title=Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten|year=1998|publisher=Schmetterling Verlag|isbn=978-3-89657-090-1|page=135}}</ref> The Thule-Seminar publishes a journal called ''Elemente'' and another one called ''Metapo''.<ref name="ABC"/>
+The first major publication of the Seminar was ''Das unvergängliche Erbe. Alternativen zum Prinzip der Gleichheit'' ([[translation]]: "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]].<ref name="Feit1987">{{cite book|author=Margret Feit|title=Die "Neue Rechte" in der Bundesrepublik|year=1987|publisher=Campus Verlag|isbn=978-3-593-33775-3|quote=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.|page=80}}</ref> It turned out to be the "programmatic" book of the Seminar.<ref name="HellerMaegerle1998">{{cite book|author1=Friedrich Paul Heller |author-link1=:de:Friedrich Paul Heller|author2=Anton Maegerle|author2-link=Anton Maegerle|title=Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten|year=1998|publisher=Schmetterling Verlag|isbn=978-3-89657-090-1|page=135}}</ref> The Thule-Seminar publishes a journal called ''Elemente'' and another one called ''Metapo''.<ref name="ABC"/>
 == See also ==
-* [[Neo-völkisch movements]]
 * [[Nouvelle Droite]]
 == References ==
-{{reflist}}
+{{Reflist}}
 == Further reading ==
-* {{cite book|author1=Friedrich Paul Heller|author2=[[Anton Maegerle]]|title=Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten|year=1998|publisher=Schmetterling Verlag|isbn=978-3-89657-090-1}}
+* {{cite book|author1=Friedrich Paul Heller|author2=Anton Maegerle|author2-link=Anton Maegerle|title=Thule: vom völkischen Okkultismus bis zur Neuen Rechten|year=1998|publisher=Schmetterling Verlag|isbn=978-3-89657-090-1}}
-* Verena Rick, (14 May 1982) [http://www.zeit.de/1982/20/der-sumpf-ist-fruchtbar-noch Der Sumpf ist fruchtbar noch. Die „Neue Rechte“ stellt sich vor. Das unvergängliche Erbe“ – Die erste Publikation des „Thule-Seminars“], ''[[Die Zeit]]'', p. 48
+* Verena Rick, (14 May 1982) [http://www.zeit.de/1982/20/der-sumpf-ist-fruchtbar-noch Der Sumpf ist fruchtbar noch. Die „Neue Rechte“ stellt sich vor. Das unvergängliche Erbe“ – Die erste Publikation des „Thule-Seminars“], ''[[Die Zeit]]'', p.&nbsp;48
 == External links ==
-* [http://www.thule-seminar.org Thule-Seminar homepage]
+* {{official|http://www.thule-seminar.org/}}
+{{European New Right}}
+{{Authority control}}
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+[[Category:Modern pagan organisations based in Germany]]
+[[Category:Modern pagan organizations established in 1980]]
+[[Category:Political and economic think tanks based in Germany]]
+[[Category:1980 establishments in West Germany]]
+[[Category:Modern pagan political organizations]]

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