One of the darkest chapters in the history of the Gotha "Hofkalender"

Since the 19th century, the Genealogical Pocket Books of the Counts, Barons, the Primitive Nobility and the Nobility of Letters have traditionally been published annually as directories of the various ranks of the German nobility and were part of the "GOTHA". After the Weimar constitution abolished aristocratic privileges in 1918, the pocketbooks underwent a functional change in the "de-nobleised society" of the Weimar Republic and adapted strategically. In the 1920s and 1930s, they developed into a racial-biologically connoted aristocratic register of the German Nobility Association, which manifested the "völkisch destruction of the concept of nobility". In an extension of the perspective of previous research, these processes are not only described as part of the radicalisation of the nobility. The economic and ideological motives of the Perthes publishing house must also be included in order to understand the ethno-anti-Semitic radicalisation of the "GOTHA".

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