Joachim Hoffmann (December 1, 1930, Königsberg, East Prussia – February 8, 2002, Freiburg) was a German historian and scientific director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office.

Life[link]

Joachim Hoffmann was born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1930. In the latter stages of World War II Hoffmann's family fled to western Germany to avoid the advancing Red Army. There the family settled in Berlin.

From 1951 Hoffmann studied modern history, eastern European history and comparative ethnology at the Free University of Berlin and University of Hamburg. In 1959 he received his PhD in history for his study Die Berliner Mission des Grafen Prokesch-Osten 1849-1852. From 1960 until 1995 Hoffmann was working in the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office, where his field of expertise was the “Armed Forces of the Soviet Union”. In his later years he held the post of scientific director. In these years he was also awarded prizes for his work, such as the “Dr. Walter-Eckhardt” Award (1991) and the “General Andrej Andrejewitsch Wlassow” Cultural Prize (1992). After Hoffmann had retired in 1995, he continued to work as an independent author.

He died in February 2002.^[1]

Work[link]

Hoffmann published a number of books and articles mainly on the German-Soviet war (1941-1945). Most of his works were based on little-known topics like Deutsche und Kalmyken 1942 bis 1945 (Germans and the Kalmyk people) (1977), Die Ostlegionen 1941 bis 1943 (1981) and Kaukasien 1942/43 - Das deutsche Heer und die Orientvölker der Sowjetunion (Caucasus 1942/43 - The German army and the eastern peoples of the Soviet Union) (1991). Also in 1984 he published the book Die Geschichte der Wlassow-Armee (History of the Vlasov Army) (1984). This work became very popular.^{[citation needed]} With the support of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn it was also introduced in Russia in 1990, where it caused great controversy.

In 1983 the Military History Research Office published the volume 4 of its Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg (The German Reich and the Second World War), which covered the prelude and opening phase of the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. Hoffmann contributed critical articles to this volume, which were almost entirely based on Soviet sources.^{[citation needed]}

Hofmann's research led to a conflict with Wilhelm Deist in the following year. Deist, by this time executive scientific director of the Military History Research Office, sued Hoffmann, because in a letter to the director of the office (dating from September, 7th 1983) Hoffmann had accused him of suppressing of the truth about invasion of the Soviet Union for ideological reasons. Deist considered this to be offensive. However, the judge decided against Deist, because Hoffmann had only made use of his right of free speech.^{[citation needed]}

Since the middle of the 1980s Hoffmann as well as critical Russian historians such as Alexander Nekrich^{[citation needed]} and Dmitri Volkogonov were deeply involved in the emerging debate about possible Soviet preparations for an attack on Germany since the summer of 1940. In 1995, right after he had retired, he published his work Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945 (Stalin's War of Extermination). This book caused great controversy, because of some of its thesis. Even the German Bundestag had to pay some attention, because the foreword was written by Manfred Kehrig, who was by this time still employed by the Military History Research Office. This gave Hoffmann's book the look of an official work by the office. In later versions of the book, Kehrig was only allowed to sign this foreword as a private person and without his occupation written under his name.^[2][3]

Controversial aspects[link]

More than once Hoffmann has been criticised by politically correct historians for not being emotive enough in hyperbole against the Third Reich when writing about its war with the communist Soviet Union.^[4][5][6] Most critics concentrate on his last book „Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945“ (1995).

Stalin's war plans against Nazi Germany[link]

One of the main theses of Hoffmann book (Chapter 1 and 2) was that Stalin had planned a war against Nazi Germany in 1941. He mostly referred to newer research done by Russian historians such as Danilov, Gorkov or Viktor Suvorov. According to this thesis, Stalin would have waged war on Nazi Germany in the late summer of 1941, if Hitler had not struck first. According to Hoffmann there was no evidence that Hitler had any knowledge of these plans, which means that even if Stalin had planned a war, the German attack could not be considered a defensive action^{[citation needed]}.

Total number of Holocaust victims[link]

In one part of the book Hoffmann also wrote about the absolute number of victims of the Holocaust. He criticised the evidence for the accepted number of about 6 million victims, claiming that it was a propaganda figure of the Soviet leadership for which there were no evidence.^[7] Hoffmann stated that according to papers now lying in Russian archives only 74.000 victims could be identified by name. However, he added that these figures would naturally make up only a small part of the absolute number.^[8] In view of the lack of archive material, Hoffmann then raised the question of the basis for the estimation of about 5 to 6 million victims. He came to the conclusion that the Soviet commission examining the concentration camp Auschwitz (which did not find any of the German paperwork) had made the best estimate the number of victims. From interviews with former prisoners, the Soviet officers learned that it had been theoretically possible to burn about 5 million corpses. Through they also estimated that 20% of the prisoners were occupied by forced labor, they reported a total number of 4 million victims to Moscow. This report was published later in the Communist party newspaper Pravda (May 8, 1945).^[9] Hoffmann added, that some former Nazis had also reported a similar figure. SS-Organiser Adolf Eichmann had spoken of about 4 to 5 million victims, for which he had no suitable explanation.^[10] Last Hoffmann referred to other historians, such as Dr. Franciszek Piper, the director of the Auschwitz museum, and Jean Claude Pressac, who had both been writing of about only 800,000 to 1.2 million (Piper) or even 631,000 to 711,000 (Cressac) victims of Auschwitz.^[11] Because of this argumentation, some critics accused Hoffmann of getting close to Holocaust denial. It should be noted, however, that other scholars, such as R.J. Rummell have also come up with figures in the five million range for Nazi genocide of Jews^[12].

Political heresies[link]

Shortly after he had retired Hoffmann as an expert took part in a trial against the extremist Grabert-Publishing-company. In the process he granted some degree of respectability to the book "Dissecting the Holocaust", which had been published by the Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf. Still, the court found that phrases such as "supposed", "presumed", "victim of the Jews", "imputed forethought", "furious phantasies", denied the Holocaust and therefore qualified as the crime of race persecution. On June 15, 1996, judge Burkhardt Stein from Tübingen County Court ordered the confiscation and incineration of all books Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte and the destruction of all means for manufacturing them. Later the certificate written by Hoffmann was published in Rudolf's magazine Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung.^[13]

In the same year Hoffmann published Wartime bombings of neutral Switzerland in the revisionist Journal of Historical Review, published by the Institute for Historical Review.^[14] Also the book „Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945“ became very popular^{[citation needed]} among revisionists and the far right. For all these reasons Hoffmann was often accused of being part of one or the other of these movements.^[15]

Selected works[link]

• Die Ostlegionen 1941 - 1943. Turkotartaren, Kaukasier, Wolgafinnen im deutschen Heer, 1976
• Deutsche und Kalmyken 1942 - 1945, 3. Auflage 1977
• Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion, in: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, mit Jürgen Förster; Horst Boog, 1987
• Kaukasien 1942/43. Das deutsche Heer und die Orientvölker der Sowjetunion, 1991
• Die Angriffsvorbereitungen der Sowjetunion 1941 ,in: Zwei Wege nach Moskau. Vom Hitler-Stalin-Pakt bis zum "Unternehmen Barbarossa" , München und Zürich 1991
• Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945, Herbig Verlag, [3rd edition] 1999 ISBN 3-7766-2079-X
  • Reviewed by R.C.Raack in Slavic Review Vol. 55, No. 2 (Summer, 1996), pp. 493–494
  • English Edition: Stalin's War of Extermination, 1941–1945, 2001, Theses & Dissertation Press, Capshaw AL, ISBN 978-0-9679856-8-8
• Berlin Friedrichsfelde. Ein deutscher Nationalfriedhof, 2001
• Die Tragödie der 'Russischen Befreiungsarmee' 1944/45. Wlassow gegen Stalin, Herbig Verlag, 2003 ISBN 3-7766-2330-6

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joachim Hoffmann in the German National Library catalogue (German)

Saint Joachim
Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Virgin Mary
Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Confessor
Born	100.BC unknown real day
Died	unknown Jerusalem
Honored in	Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Churches Anglican Communion Islam Aglipayan Church
Canonized	Pre-Congregation
Feast	July 26 (Anglican Communion), (Roman Catholicism); September 9 (Eastern Orthodox Church), (Greek Catholics); March 20 (General Roman Calendar, 1584-1738); Sunday after the Octave of the Assumption (General Roman Calendar, 1738-1913); August 16 (General Roman Calendar, 1913-1969)
Attributes	Lamb, doves, with Saint Anne or Mary
Patronage	Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, fathers, grandparents, Fasnia (Tenerife)

Saint Joachim ("he whom YHWH has set up", Hebrew: יְהוֹיָקִים Yəhôyāqîm, Greek Ἰωακείμ Iōākeím) was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Joachim and Anne appears first in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible.^[1]

In Christian tradition[link]

Since the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke do not explicitly name either of Mary's parents, but apparently name two different fathers for Saint Joseph, many scholars from John of Damascus (8th C.), and particularly Protestant scholars, argue that the genealogy in Luke is actually the family tree of Mary, and that Heli is her father.^[2] To resolve the problem of Joseph having two fathers - one descended from Solomon, one descended from Nathan, son of David, traditions from the 7th Century specify that Heli was a first cousin of Joachim.^[3]

St Joachim on Glass

In the Protoevangelium of James, Joachim is described as a rich and pious man of the house of David who regularly gave to the poor and to the temple (synagogue) at Sepphoris.^[4] However, as his wife was barren, the high priest rejected Joachim and his sacrifice, as his wife's childlessness was interpreted as a sign of divine displeasure. Joachim consequently withdrew to the desert where he fasted and did penance for forty days. Angels then appeared to both Joachim and Anne to promise them a child. Joachim later returned to Jerusalem and embraced Anne at the city gate. The cycle of legends concerning Joachim and Anne were included in the Golden Legend and remained popular in Christian art until the Council of Trent restricted the depiction of apocryphal events. Traditional depictions (e.g., vestibular statuary) of Joachim show him bearing a shovel.

No liturgical celebration of Saint Joachim was included in the Tridentine Calendar. It was added to the General Roman Calendar in 1584, for celebration on March 20, the day after the feast day of Saint Joseph. In 1738, it was transferred to the Sunday after the Octave of the Assumption of Mary. As part of his effort to allow the liturgy of Sundays to be celebrated, Pope Pius X transferred it to August 16, the day after the Assumption, so that Joachim may be remembered in the celebration of Mary's triumph.^[5] It was then celebrated as a Double of the 2nd Class, a rank that was changed in 1960 to that of 2nd Class Feast. In the Roman Catholic calendar of saints (in 1969) it was joined to that of Anne, for celebration on July 26.^[6]

The Eastern Orthodox Churches and Greek Catholics commemorate Joachim on September 9, the Synaxis of Joachim and Anne, the day after the Nativity of the Theotokos.

Joachim is ascribed the title of "forebearer of God".^{[citation needed]}

San Joaquin, California was named in his honour.

In Islam[link]

The House of Imran (Arabic: آل عمران) is the 3rd chapter of the Qur'an. Imran is Arabic for the biblical figure Amram, the father of Moses, and Aaron, who is regarded by Muslims as being the ancestor of Mary and Jesus through his son Aaron. In Muslim belief, however, the Christian Joachim has been attributed the name Imran as well. Muslims distinguish between the two different individuals as:

• "Imran, ancestor of Mary", who is Amram
• "Imran, father of Mary", who is Joachim

As for the figure of Joachim/Imran, he is revered by Muslims for being the father of Mary and the grandfather of Jesus and also for being one of the most saintly men present in Jerusalem at the time, along side the priest Zachariah. By tradition, Imran's wife was Hannah, the Christian Saint Anne.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Saint Joachim
• St. Joachim

Gregor Gysi
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 18th September 2005
Constituency	Berlin Treptow – Köpenick
Personal details
Born	January 16, 1948 East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	Die Linke

Dr. Gregor Gysi (German pronunciation: [ˈɡiːzi]; born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney and key politician of the socialist left-wing political party The Left (Die Linke). He played an important role in the end of communist rule in East Germany in 1989^{[citation needed]}, and was a main figure in the post-reunification Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He is well known for his rhetoric talent and is considered one of the best German public speakers.^[1]

Family background[link]

Gysi was born in East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany. His father, Klaus Gysi, was a high-ranking official in East Germany, and had been Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973. His mother, Irene, was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who was married to the British writer Doris Lessing during his exile in Southern Rhodesia. The surname "Gysi" is of Swiss-German origin.^[2] Both of his parents were of part Jewish ancestry; his paternal grandmother was Jewish, as was one of his maternal great-grandfathers.^[2][3] One of his maternal great-grandmothers was Russian.^[2]

His sister, Gabriele, is an actress, who left East Germany in 1985. Today, she is chief dramaturge at the Volksbühne in Berlin.

Career[link]

Gysi's political career started in the then-ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) of East Germany, to which he was admitted in 1967. In 1971 he became a licensed attorney, and during the 1970s and 1980s defended several prominent dissidents, including Rudolf Bahro, Robert Havemann, Ulrike Poppe, and Bärbel Bohley.

Gregor Gysi (November 1989)

In addition to his legal work, Gysi emerged as one of East Germany's leading Gorbachev-inspired political reformists within the SED, especially towards the end of the 1980s. In 1989, he and a group of lawyers presented a counter-draft to the government's Travel Bill, which authorised mass public demonstrations. This led to a rally on 4 November in which he spoke and called for various reforms, including free elections. In December 1989, he became a member of a special SED party session investigating official corruption and abuse of power.

He led the transformation of the SED into a democratic socialist party which included the quick resignation of all hardliners from the party's leadership; initially renamed the Socialist Unity Party - Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS), it later became simply the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). Gysi served as its chairman starting in 1990, and in March 1990 was elected to the Volkskammer in the first free election of that body, serving there until it was dissolved upon German reunification on 3 October 1990. In the first post-reunification all-German elections, he was elected to the Bundestag, and served there until 2000. He remained chairman of the PDS through 1998, and then from 1998 to 2000 served as chairman of the party's parliamentary group.

In 1992 allegations were brought against him of having been an "unofficial collaborator" (Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter, IM) or informant of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (the Stasi). He denied these allegations, and the matter was largely dropped due to his parliamentary immunity. In 1995 the Hamburg regional court ruled in Gysi's favour in a complaint against Bärbel Bohley, Gysi's former client, who had accused him of Stasi collaboration. However, the allegations were raised again in 1996, and this time the Bundestag voted to revoke his immunity and proceed with an investigation. In 1998 the Bundestag's immunity committee concluded that Gysi had been a collaborator with the Stasi from 1978 to 1989 under the name IM Notar, and fined him 8,000 Deutsche Marks. However, both the Free Democratic Party and his own PDS disputed the verdict, and Gysi appealed against the finding. Despite the affair, he retained his seat in the Bundestag in the 1998 elections.

In 2000 he resigned as chairman of the PDS's parliamentary group, but continued as an active member of the party. Following the victory in Berlin's 2001 municipal elections of a coalition of the PDS and the more moderate Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he was elected Senator for Economics, Labour, and Women's Issues and Deputy Mayor. He emphasised practical issues and advocated the reinstitution of some of what he sees as the better aspects of East Germany's system, such as extended child-care hours and a longer school day. After a scandal involving his use of airline "bonus miles" he had acquired on trips as a Bundestag member, he resigned on 31 July 2002 from the Berlin city government. The resignation was a blow to his public "can-do" image, but he has recovered from that to some extent in the wake of increasing public opposition to a number of new policies of the federal government, like the Hartz reforms lowering unemployment benefits to the levels of mere subsistence welfare, which he strongly opposes.

Oskar Lafontaine (left) and Gregor Gysi, election poster, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, 2005

In late 2004 he survived brain surgery and a heart attack. Formerly a heavy smoker, Gysi quit smoking after the crisis on his doctors' advice.

Gysi remained the PDS undisputed front man in many people's minds and continued to appear in public. In May 2005, when Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced plans to call an early election in September, many prominent PDS leaders including chair Lothar Bisky called on Gysi to front their campaign. He was a lead candidate of the PDS, winning direct election to the Bundestag for the Berlin Treptow – Köpenick constituency. The PDS fought the election in an alliance with the new western-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG), under the new name The Left Party.PDS, with Gysi at times sharing a platform with WASG leader Oskar Lafontaine, former finance minister and formerly party leader of the SPD. In June 2007, the PDS and WASG formally merged to form a united party called The Left.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gregor Gysi

• Will Germany Go Left of the Left? by Markus Deggerich, Der Spiegel, Sept 25 2009
• Portrait at the website of the parliamentary group of the Left Party
• Biography at Deutsches Historisches Museum

Jonathan David Anthony Bowden (April 12, 1962 - March 29, 2012)^[1] was a British political figure who had been involved with a number of political parties and groups, and a leading speaker on the nationalist circuit. His great influence was the novelist, Bill Hopkins, who had been one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s.

Early politics[link]

Bowden was born in Kent and was educated at Presentation College, Reading, Berkshire. In 1983-4 he completed one year of a B.A. history course at London University's Birkbeck College, but then left. He began his political career as a member of the Conservative Party in the Tower Hamlets association, in the Shoreditch and Stepney Green constituency. In October 1990 (until 1992) he joined the Monday Club, where the following year he made an unsuccessful bid to stand for its Executive Council. In May 1991, he was appointed co-chairman, with Stuart Millson, of the Club's Media Committee^[2][3]. During the early 1990s, he stated that he had been the deputy chairman of the Western Goals Institute^[4] although this cannot be verified.

Revolutionary Conservative Caucus[link]

Bowden and Millson co-founded the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus in November 1992,^[5] with, he said, the aim of introducing "abstract thought into the nether reaches of the Conservative and Unionist party".^[6] In the group's first quarterly journal, The Revolutionary Conservative Review, it stated that "The Caucus has been established by Right-wing activists within the Conservative Party in order to disseminate information, ideology, and intellectual opinion within and beyond the party." However, the journal's name was almost immediately changed to The Revolutionary Conservative, and in issue number 1, they stated that the Caucus "is dedicated to national sovereignty, European culture, masculinity, ruthless elitism, and racial purity." They were attacked by Sir Norman Fowler in the Sunday Express who said, "These people are not remotely typical of mainstream Conservatives", and by James Glyn Ford, MEP, speaking at the 1993 Labour Party Conference when he said, "The Tories have a Far-Right tendency....I have passed details of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus to Special Branch...". However the Conservative MP Rupert Allason was quoted in Searchlight magazine as saying "If they are against Maastricht, they can't be bad."^[7] Issue no.3 of their journal was devoted entirely to the continuing power struggle within the Monday Club following the departure of Gregory Lauder-Frost at the end of May 1992. By the end of 1994, Millson and Bowden had parted company and issue no.4 was the last production of the Caucus.

Later activities[link]

Bowden's book Right was published by the European Books Society in 1993 and brought praised from Gregory Lauder-Frost in The Revolutionary Conservative.^[8] Bowden was also said to be prominent in the milieu responsible for the emergence of Right Now! magazine.^[9]

He later joined the Freedom Party, for which he acted as Treasurer for a short period,^[10] and subsequently, with Adrian Davies, was a member of the Bloomsbury Forum.^[11] Bowden contributed an essay (Bill)"Hopkins - An Angry Young Man" to the book of 20 essays Standardbearers - British Roots of the New Right which he, with Adrian Davies and Eddy Butler, also edited. The book carried a Foreword by a former Vice-President of the Monday Club, Professor Antony Flew^[12].

Bowden went on to join the British National Party (BNP), and was for a period its Cultural Officer. In July 2007, he resigned from the BNP following a bitter dispute in which an associate of BNP leader Nick Griffin made defamatory allegations against Bowden on a blog.^[13] It has been claimed by Martin Webster that Bowden was forced out of the party due to his support for Chris Jackson, who made an unsuccessful attempt to replace Griffin as leader.^[14] After September 2008, Bowden resumed speaking at BNP events, but never rejoined the party. Since the May 2010 elections he had no further connection to the BNP.

New Right[link]

Jonathan Bowden began working with long-time activist Troy Southgate in January 2005 and went on to become Chairman of the New Right. He spoke at thirty-three of the group's meetings in central London. The topics were as follows:

37th New Right Meeting: Saturday 4th February 2012 - 'The Soviet Gulag'

36th New Right Meeting: Saturday 10th December 2011 - 'Yukio Mishima'

35th New Right Meeting: Saturday 15th October 2011 - 'W.B. Yeats'

34th New Right Meeting: Saturday 6th August 2011 -T.S. Eliot

33rd New Right Meeting: Saturday 11th June 2011 - 'Ezra Pound'

29th New Right Meeting: Saturday 23rd October 2010 - 'Savitri Devi: Daughter of the Black Sun'

28th New Right Meeting: Saturday 28th August 2010 - 'Black Propaganda: Murnau's Nosferatu and Right-Wing Aesthetics'

27th New Right Meeting: Saturday 5th June 2010 - 'Julius Evola: The World's Most Right-Wing Thinker?'

26th New Right Meeting: Saturday 17th April 2010 - 'Robert Erwin Howard: Pulpster Extraordinaire'

25th New Right Meeting: Saturday 13th February 2010 - 'Stewart Home: Communism, Nihilism, Neoism and Decadence'

24th New Right Meeting: Saturday 21st November 2009 - 'The Real Meaning of Punch & Judy'

23rd New Right Meeting: Saturday 26th September 2009 - 'Nineteen Eighty-Four & Totalitarian Leftism'

22nd New Right Meeting: Saturday 1st August 2009 - 'Francis Pollini & the Cult of Communist Brainwashing'

21st New Right Meeting: 13th June 2009 - 'Tintin & the Example of Degrellle'

20th New Right Meeting: 4th April 2009 - 'Louis-Ferdinand Céline & the Literature of French Collaboration'

19th New Right Meeting: 7th February 2009 - ‘H.P. Lovecraft: Aryan Mystic’

17th New Right Meeting: 25th October 2008 - 'Max Stirner: Egoist Without Compare'

16th New Right Meeting: 30th August 2008 - 'Criminology: The View From The Right'

15th New Right Meeting: 5th July 2008 - 'Thomas Carlyle: The Sage of Chelsea'

14th New right Meeting: 5th April 2008 - 'The Films of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl's Successor?'

13th New Right Meeting: 12th January 2008 - New-Left Marxism & the Frankfurt School

12th New Right Meeting: 3rd November 2007 - Revisionism: Left & Right, Hard & Soft

11th New Right Meeting: 8th September 2007 - The Art & Philosophy of Jonathan Bowden

10th New Right Meeting: 5th May 2007 - Performance of Beowulf (Part One)

9th New Right Meeting: 13th January 2007 - Robinson Jeffers: Misanthrope Extraordinaire

8th New Right Meeting: 28th May 2006 - Elitism, British Modernism & Wyndham Lewis

7th New Right Meeting: 8th April 2006 - Bill Hopkins and Anti-Humanist Life

6th New Right Meeting: 18th February 2006 - Martin Heidegger & Death's Ontology

5th New Right Meeting: 14th January 2006 - Anti-Liberal Art and Film

4th New Right Meeting: 17th September 2005 - Leni Riefenstahl

3rd New Right Meeting: 28th May 2005 - Ernst Junger: Revolutionary Conservative

2nd New Right Meeting: 12th March 2005 - Nietzsche and Post-Modernism

1st New Right Meeting: 16th January 2005 - 'The History of the British New Right'

Death[link]

He died on 29th March, 2012, from a heart attack at his home in Berkshire.^[15]

Articles[link]

By Jonathan Bowden:

In The Revolutionary Conservative, Issue no.1, London, 1993.

• "John Major - Alone in Toytown without Big Ears".
• "Madonna and Sex; the Erotic Cavortings of a Deranged Bimbo".
• Book Review of Oswald Spengler's "Man & Technics".
• "Culture of the New Right" an article on Wyndham Lewis.

In The Revolutionary Conservative, Issue no.2.

• "Why are we in Bosnia?".
• "Whither The Royals - an Institution in Terminal Decline."

In The Revolutionary Conservative, Issue no.4, London,Summer/Autumn 1994.

• "Animal Liberation" - an investigation of the fanatics.
• "Spotlight on Tina Turner".
• "Militant - an analysis" (with Stuart Millson).
• "A Revolutionary Social & Economic Policy for Conservatives in the 21st century (with John MacLaughlin).

Books[link]

• Mad, Avant-Garde Publishing (1989).
• Aryan, Egotist (1990).
• Skin, Egotist (1992).
• Sade, Egotist (1992).
• Right, European Books Society (1993).
• Collected Works, Avant-guarde (1995).
• Standardbearers - British Roots of the New Right, edited by Adrian Davies, Eddy Butler & Jonathan Bowden; Beckenham, Kent, 180pps, (April 1999).
• Apocalypse TV (2007).
• The Art of Jonathan Bowden (1974 - 2007) (2007).
• The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity" (2008).
• Al-Qa’eda Moth" (2008).
• Kratos (2008).
• A Ballet of Wasps" (2008).
• Goodbye Homunculus!" (2009).
• The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2 (1968 - 1974) (2009).
• Lilith Before Eve" (2009).
• Louisiana Half-Face" (2010).
• The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 3 (1967 - 1974) (2010).

Art[link]

Bowden was also a talented artist and produced hundreds of nightmarish caricatures, many of which adorn his novels. These are collected in three coffee-table book volumes, which include his early graphic novels / comic strips as well as his adult work.

Film[link]

He also starred in two avant-garde films, 'Venus Flytrap' (2005) and 'Grand Guignol' (2009), each directed by the Italian film-maker Andrea Lioy.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Jonathan Bowden- Nietzschean Powerhouse
• Jonathan Bowden addresses a 2009 meeting of the British National Party in Greenwich, London
• Obituary