Biography of Armin Mohler: Pioneer of the New Right

Reading time: 4 min.
|With his essay on the "Conservative Revolution," Armin Mohler struck a chord with those in the Bonn Republic who thought a little fascism wouldn't hurt. Maik Tändler's biography impressively demonstrates how right-wing intellectual networks today build on Mohler's theories.
Review by Claus Leggewie
Armin Mohler came out of hiding at the farewell ceremony. The "fascist," as he had freely declared himself during the conversation, freed from institutional shackles, handed me a typewritten version of the "Leuchter Report," the fictitious "report" of an American Holocaust denier. I should read it , he said, as if he wanted to put me on the right path. The journalist, born in Switzerland in 1920, had just resigned as managing director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation , where he had unscathed a double role as bourgeois master of ceremonies and right-wing extremist influencer.
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