Houston Stewart Chamberlain und die europäische Dimension völkischen Denkens 1890–1918
Houston Stewart Chamberlain and the European dimension of völkisch ideology 1890–1914

Summary/Abstract: This article revisits the intellectual and ideological formation of Houston Stewart Cham berlain, the central anti Semitic and racist public intellectual of the Wilhelmine Empire. I intend to interpret Chamberlain’s ideological disposition and political activism not only as a product of German national discourse, but as rooted in a European context. The ar ticle illustrates, firstly, how imagined European spatial dimensions informed Chamber lain’s racial conceptions; secondly, his perception of the periphery of the Habsburg Empire as a völkisch battlefield; and, thirdly, the way in which he influenced a host of different publics, primarily the German, but also other European societies like the Romanian. His ability to adjust and to modernise ensured the longevity of his intellectual legacy beyond the Wilhelmine Empire and connected his thinking with the origins of the early National Socialist movement.

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