ABSTRACT
During the conference of 29-30 July 1933 at the Wartburg near Eisenach, many German faith groups joined what became known as the Working Community of the German Faith Movement (ADGB). For the sake of brevity, we shall simply refer to it as the German Faith Movement, although it did not drop the “Working Community” designation until the Scharzfeld conference in 1934.2 Among the groups that joined were: Hauer’s Friends of the Coming Community (FKG); Dr Kramer’s and Carl Peter’s League of Free Religious Communities (BFG); Dr Pick’s and Professor Drews’ Association of Free Religious Communities (VFG); the Rig-Kreis of Hessberg, Wesemeyer and Groh; the German Faith Community (DGG); the Nordic-Religious Working Community (NRA) of Norbert Seibertz, director of the regional superior court; and W.Schloz’s Eagles and Falcons (AF). Smaller groups included: C.F. Lemcke’s Community of German Cognition (GDE); O.Michel’s German-religious League (DRB); the Working Circle for Biocentric Research (AfBF) of Deubel, Eggert-Schröder and Kern; and many others. The AfBF, although led by Deubel and others, was focused on the works of the graphologist and völkisch psychologist Ludwig Klages. The Germanists Bernhard Kummer and Professor Neckel also attended the conference, as did the race psychologist Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss. Further prominent figures included Fr. W. Prinz zur Lippe of the Young-Nordic League (JNB) and Professor Schultze-Naumburg. Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1869-1949) was an architect and leader of the state universities for architecture and educational art in Weimar. In 1932 he was also a Member of Parliament for the Nazi party. Excepting the free religious ones (freireligiöse), all groups were National Socialists or National Socialistic in their orientation.3
