Larry Eugene Jones is Professor of Modern European History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He is a specialist in the history of the Weimar Republic and author of German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) and Hitler versus Hindenburg: The 1932 Presidential Elections and the End of the Weimar Republic (CUP, 2016). He is currently working on a new book tentatively entitled Conservatives, Nationalists, and Nazis: A History of the German Right from 1918 to 1933/34.

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Introduction: The German Right in the Weimar Republic: New Directions, New Insights, New Challenges

Larry Eugene Jones

Chapter 1. Hindenburg and the German Right

Wolfram Pyta

Chapter 2. From Friends to Foes: Count Kuno von Westarp and the Transformation of the German Right

Daniela Gasteiger

Chapter 3. Conservative Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic: A Case Study of the German National People's Party

Larry Eugene Jones

Chapter 4. Academics and Radical Nationalism: The Pan-German League in Hamburg and the German Reich

Rainer Hering

Chapter 5. Realms of Leadership and Residues of Social Mobilization: The Pan-German League, 1918-1933

Björn Hofmeister

Chapter 6. Continuity and Change on the German Right: The Pan-German League and Nazism, 1918-1939

Barry A. Jackisch

Chapter 7. Weimar's "Burning Question": Situational Antisemitism and the German Combat Leagues, 1918-1933

Brian E. Crimm

Chapter 8. Antisemitism and the "Jewish Question" in the Political Worldview of the Catholic Right

Ulrike Ehret

Chapter 9. Eugenics and Protestant Social Thought in the Weimar Republic: Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Bethel Institutions

Edward Snyder

Chapter 10. Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Right

Joseph W. Bendersky

Notes on Contributors

Select Bibliography of New and Standard Works on the History of the German Right, 1918-1933

Index

Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period. In particular, antisemitism and the so-called "Jewish Question" played a prominent role in the self-definition and politics of the right-wing groups and ideologies explored by the contributors to this volume.