Ordinul Bunilor Templieri, sașii ardeleni și presa de propagandă la începutul secolului XX
The Order of Good Templars, the Transylvanian Saxons and the Propaganda Press of the early Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: The order of the Good Templars was founded in the 1850 in the United States on a structure modelled on Freemasonry as a fraternal organization for temperance and abstinence, its members being organized in lodges. The Order allowed access equally to men and women and did not differ in race. From the United States, the order will spread to Europe. It will also appear in the evangelical Protestant environment in Transylvania, in major cities like Sibiu, Brasov, Sighișoara, Bistrița, Orastie, Sebes, Mediaş etc.The emergence and evolution of the order in Transylvania, is closely linked to the measures of national eugenics promoted by the Saxon elite, especially by the physician Henry Siegmund of Medias. To promote the ideas of the Order of the Good Templars, the press will be appealed. More specifically, we will refer to the Volksgesundheit (People's Health) magazine and to the Mitteilungen der Großloge Ungarns of the Internationalen Guttemplersordens (IOGT) and the Alcohol-Enthaltsamkeits-Vereines (AEV) (Announcements of the Grand Lodge of Hungary to the Templars and the Association for Abstinence from Alcohol (AEI)), the official bulletin of the Order of the Good Templars.The first publication to which the Order of the Good Templars appealed was the “Volksgesundheit”. The magazine appeared between 1902 and 1911 in Mediaş in the printing press of G.A. Reissenberger, having as chief editor Heinrich Siegmund, who also was its the owner.The second periodical will appear between December 1, 1911 and June, 1916, in Brasov. It appeared was monthly, in the quart format, and the editor in charge was a certain Dr. Viktor Ziske, who was a lawyer in Brasov. The publication was printed by the “Schneider & Feminger” brothers, of Brasov.

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