ABSTRACT
What were the deeper cultural backgrounds of Baschwitz and his work? What was the general atmosphere in the emerging German empire of his youth? What were the distant origins of his family and his family name? How about his social class and upbringing as a typical German Bildungsbürger? What was the precise nature of his Ph.D. dissertation in the early social sciences? Did he have a knack for writing, and why did he choose to become a journalist? How was he affected by the run-up to the First World War?
