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.