Reichsbürger.

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Consider this to be cataloged in the strange but true category. Never head of this before. Only borderline germane to the blog but nonetheless interesting.

The restoration of the Hohenzollern dynasty? The return of Kaiser Wilhelm? Germany?

"The march of Germany’s extreme monarchists"

From www.spectator.com.uk the article by Katja Hoyer 05 November 2022.

"The far right in Germany isn’t all angry young men with shaved heads, baseball bats and black boots. There are those who appear respectable, even intellectual. The Reichsbürger movement includes accountants, teachers and academics; many members are middle-aged. It’s a fractured network with vastly diverging world views, united in their belief that the current government is illegitimate."

"The Reichsbürgers claim that the German empire was not legally abolished when it collapsed at the end of the first world war and that it therefore continues to exist. To them, the so-called November Revolution of 1918, in which Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate, ending the German monarchy, was a coup without legal basis. The governments that followed – beginning with the Weimar Republic and ending with today’s parliamentary democracy – have no right to exist. Today’s Bundestag can therefore be overthrown without qualms, even with violence if necessary. While this kind of extremism is still rare, there has long been residual monarchism in Germany. Around 10 per cent of Germans support the restoration of the royals; among those under 34, that number is nearly one in five."

Sentiments for the return of the German monarchy in the aftermath of World War One not so rare.

Strong and stable rule was preferred to the chaos of the Weimar Republic. Especially among the professional German officer corps of the Reichswehr. Ludendorff in Germany and Von Trapp in Austria favoring a governance by nobility as an alternative to what was perceived as weak and chaotic liberal democracy.

THAT SUCH SENTIMENTS STILL SURVIVE IN MODERN-DAY GERMANY DOES SURPRISE ME.

See also the now inactive Internet web site the "Mad Monarchist". The author makes an interesting assertion. The level of good governance as can be measured whether by rule of nobility or rule by commoner hardly a whole lot different. 

We eagerly wait the response of Kaiser Wilhelm. We may have to wait a while however!

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