The History of the German Tribes, (ed.: Karl Haushofer)

The History of the German Tribes, (ed.: Karl Haushofer)

The history of the German tribes
The emergence of the German people
edited by Karl Haushofer

Even today, the identity of the German people is shaped by the cultural diversity of the German tribes and their historically developed characteristics. The fact that Germany did not become a centralized state and remains a federal state is due to its rich tribal heritage and the enduring sense of home and belonging felt by many people in their respective regions. The path to national unity for all Germans over the past two centuries could only be achieved by overcoming existing tribal divisions and antagonisms, and by recognizing and supporting the tribes as fundamental pillars of national identity. This has been a difficult political process, still ongoing, requiring those in political power to have a keen understanding of the significance and value of collective identities and knowledge of historical contexts.

In this work, renowned scholars (historians, Germanists, folklorists, and geographers) explore the history of the Germanic tribes from prehistoric times to the present day. The book describes from various scholarly perspectives how the "old tribes" (Bavarians, Franks, Swabians, Thuringians, Saxons, and Frisians) formed as early as the Migration Period and how new tribes developed in the course of German eastward expansion. It also clarifies the power-political and spatial implications of these developments for the emergence of a unified German national and state consciousness.

Under the editorship of Karl Haushofer (former Major General, Professor of Geography and the leading representative of a German geopolitical school), a first comprehensive and scientifically sound, generally understandable account of the history of the German tribes was achieved in the 1930s, which is now available in a new edition, editorially revised.

• 564 pages
• Paperback
• Format approx. 21 x 14.8 cm
• Weight approx. 640 g.

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Table of contents of "The History of the German Tribes":

1. Foreword by the Editors

2. The concept of tribe in German history

   1. Prehistoric precursors
   2. The Age of Tribal Formation
   3. German further education of tribalism
   4. The development in the East
   5. Modern-day fates

3. The emergence of the German tribes.
   From the West Germanic peoples to the Frankish state.

   1. West Germanic: philological and historical
   2. The Mannus Song and the Unity of the North
   3. The peoples between the Elbe and Rhine rivers in the first century
   4. Armin as creator of Germanic world history
   5. Arminius' legacy in the beginning of the struggle against Rome's Rhine and
      Coastal front
   6. Beginnings of tribal formation
   7. Rome forced onto the defensive
   8. Rome's Rhine and coastal frontage in Germanic surf
   9. The Franks as executors of the West Germanic awakening and Clovis's establishment of rule
   10. The fate of the West Germanic settlement after the victory
   11. On the road to the First German Reich

4. The Low German region

5. History and fate of the Lower Saxons and Frisians.

   1. The tribal territories of the Saxons and Frisians
   2. The conflict between the Saxons and Frisians with the Frankish Empire
   3. The entry of the Saxons and Frisians into the German Empire. The time of the Saxon emperors.
   4. Saxony and the Empire on the move eastward. Lothair and Henry the Lion
   5. The Saxon and Frisian lands in the centuries of the empire's decline
   6. Lower Saxony and Prussianism

6. The German northeast from the Elbe to the Narva.

   1. Borders and landscape structure of the eastern region
   2. German settlement in the 12th and 13th centuries
   3. The establishment of German territorial states and their development up to the modern era
   4. The cultural achievements

7. The Central German region

8. Unity and diversity of the Franks

9. Settled populations and the formation of new tribes in the Central German region.
   Advance into Upper Saxony

10. Silesia and the Silesians

    1. Prehistory
    2. German settlement
    3. Nature of the Silesian
    4. First becoming
    5. Developmental years
    6. Silesia and the Reich

11. The Upper German region

12. The Alpine region in German history.
    By Albrecht Haushofer

13. The German cultural landscape of the southwest.

14. The fate of the Old Bavarian tribe.
    By Karl Haushofer

    1. The tribe on its spatial-political stage
    2. From the center of the Germanic southern front – to the inner pivot point of the East Germanic tribes
    3. Exposed flanks and depopulated areas of the people's land / The second land grab of the Bavarian stem duchy and its flooding
    4. Destruction of the territorial protection and the offensive power of the stem duchy in the southeast by the imperial government's southern policies. Formation of new southeastern protective units.
    5. Alpine region, southern policy of the empire and ecclesiastical territorial fragmentation
    6. Old and new Eastern March. Root sprouting of the old trunk.
       Inland turn
    7. The Palatinate-Bavarian connection as a Rhine-Danube link,
       in its effect secondhand. “Main line”?
    8. "The happiest century in Bavarian history" and its conclusion

15. Austria and the Danube region