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 ContentIdeology and scienceUpdating/modernization of the völkisch ideologyHans Freyer's sociology of the völkisch society"German folk and cultural soil" - cultural space researchVölkische race research - dismissible or undeniable (people and/or race)Völkische sciencesVolk/Volksgemeinschaft - political catchword for an ideologically based knowledge constructThe Target groupsLecturers, students and practitioners from the fields ofSociologyPolitical scienceHistoryCultural studiesPsychology, human medicine, population scienceCultural studiesLawEconomicsJournalismThe AuthorDr. Dieter Gessner is a journalist and historian.