People's Community 1933 - 1945

The author of this volume examines the historical development and popularization of the ideological concept of the Volksgemeinschaft. This is a process of scientification, which the author describes using the examples of sociology, history, economics, demography, psychology, and geography. Its result is an ideologically based construct of knowledge determined by völkisch questions: the Volksgemeinschaft. ** The Content**

• Ideology and science
• Updating/modernization of the völkisch ideology
• Hans Freyer's sociology of the völkisch society
• "German folk and cultural soil" - cultural space research
• Völkische race research - dismissible or undeniable (people and/or race)
• Völkische sciences

• Volk/Volksgemeinschaft - political catchword for an ideologically based knowledge construct The Target groups
  Lecturers, students and practitioners from the fields of

• Sociology
• Political science
• History
• Cultural studies
• Psychology, human medicine, population science
• Cultural studies
• Law
• Economics

• Journalism The Author
  Dr. Dieter Gessner is a journalist and historian.

  Fundamental historical study on the emergence and spread of the concept of "Volksgemeinschaft" Comprehensive and systematic introduction and overview

  Autorentext
  Dr. Dieter Gessner is a journalist and historian.

  Inhalt
  Ideology and science.- Updating/modernization of völkisch ideology.- Hans Freyer's sociology of völkisch society.- "German folk and cultural soil".- Kulturraumforschung.- Völkische Rassenforschung - dismissible or undeniable (Volk and/or Rasse).- Völkische Wissenschaften.- Volk/Volksgemeinschaft - political buzzword for an ideologically based knowledge construct.