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Hello,

One of the first things I've read about Julius Evola was that he
had
been influenced by the Netherlander Herman Wirth. Living in the
Netherlands myself, I found this to be an interesting fact. As I began
to read more of Evola's writings and books, the notion of
Wirth's
influence faded to the background. Recently, re-reading various
biographical texts about Evola on the net, I was reminded of him being
influenced by Wirth.

"Herman Wirth was one of the world's greatest archeologists and
anthropologists. Dr. Wirth was a Dutch University lecturer who had
chosen German nationality and became a volunteer in the German Army
from 1914 to 1918. Later, he was known in university circles for his
controversial works on the Middle Ages and Germanic antiquity. He
joined the NSDAP in 1925 and left it in 1926 only to return in 1933.
In these years he wrote the classic work on Teutonic mythology and its
impressions on anthropology of the race known as What is the German
Soul? Dr. Wirth had the good fortune, so to speak, to meet Heinrich
Himmler at the home of mutual friends at a party during the autumn of
1934. At that time they sketched out the outline of a learned society
with the name Ahnenerbe, the object of which would be to study and
research Germanic antiquity for the purpose of supporting national
socialist beliefs by scientific proof. The Reichsführer-SS was very
favorably impressed with the idea as fostered by Wirth because it lay
so close to his own preoccupations, and the society was set up in 1935
with the status of a learned society. The spirit of the work was
summed up in the words of one of the Dutch research experts, who
worked with the Ahnenerbe: "After more than a thousand years of the
spiritual dictatorship of Judaic Christianity over Europe, we find it
necessary to reprove everything!" No domain of human knowledge was to
remain extraneous to the organization. The research came under three
main headings: Erbe, heritage; Raum, space; and Geist, spirit or mind.
In this way prehistory could coexist with geopolitics and philosophy
with biology. The works of this organization were profound and many of
their papers and studies are used by scientists and archeologists,
today."

http://www.germaniainternational.com/ahnenerbe2.html

Martin Schwarz speaks of Wirth's influence on Evola in his article
`Julius Evola, A Philosopher in the Age of the Wolf, An
Appreciation
for his 100th Anniversary':

"In addition, Evola was much influenced by researches into
prehistory,
for instance those of Herman Wirth, which were able to verify the
ancient myths of the Nordic, solar origin of culture. However, in
Evola's traditional reconstruction of the Primordial Tradition this
took on a very different meaning from what Wirth had given it."

Evola himself mentions Wirth in his article `Hitler and the Secret
Societies':

"In the first place, one can see clearly the intention of
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to create an Order in which
elements
of Prussian ethics were to be combined with those of the old Orders of
knighthood, especially the Teutonic Order. He was looking for
legitimation of such an organization, but could not obtain it, since
these old Orders of Catholicism were openly opposed by the radical
wing of National Socialism. Himmler was also seeking, without the
possibility of any traditional connection, a relationship to the
Nordic-Hyperborean heritage and its symbolism (Thule), albeit without
those "secret societies" discussed above having any influence over it.
He took notice, as did Rosenberg, of the researches of the
Netherlander Herman Wirth into the Nordic-Atlantic tradition. Later
Himmler founded, with Wirth, the research and teaching organization
called the "Ahnenerbe." This is not without interest, but there was no
"occult background" to it."

My question now is, if someone could enlighten me further on this
`connection' between Wirth and Evola (or perhaps better:
Wirth's
influence on Evola).

Thank you,

Gerulf








Mon Sep 5, 2005 11:15 am

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Hello, One of the first things I've read about Julius Evola was that he had been influenced by the Netherlander Herman Wirth. Living in the Netherlands myself,...
Gerulf
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Sep 5, 2005
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For those who are not familiar with the figure of Herman Felix Wirth (1885-1981), this Dutch scholar, who became a naturalised German citizen, was the...
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We undertook to give a summary of Evola's views on Wirth's theory three years ago (see 192/193/697/799). Our attention has just been drawn to a booklet called...
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