Bernhard Förster
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Bernhard Förster (March 31, 1843, Delitzsch, Saxony—June 3, 1889, San Bernardino, Paraguay) was a nineteenth century German teacher who became an antisemite. This is evident, for example, in his writings on the Jewish question, where he characterizes Jews as constituting a "parasite on the German body".[1]Charles Bufe notes H. L. Mencken suggesting Friedrich Nietzsche refused to attend his sister's wedding to Förster because of his antisemitism.[2]
He was married to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, the sister of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. After the failure of his Paraguayan colony "Nueva Germania", he eventually committed suicide by poisoning himself with a combination of morphine and strychnine in his room at the Hotel del Lago in San Bernardino, Paraguay on June 3, 1889.
[edit] References
- ^ Hannu Salmi (1994). Die Sucht nach dem germanischen Ideal. (German) Also published in Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 6/1994, pp. 485-496
- ^ Intro to H.L. Mencken's "The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche" by C Bufe
