Richard Wagner Biography

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8.9 Wagner.

Hitler’s love of Wagnerian opera is undisputed, supported by his late teenage friend Kubizeck’s account of his enthrallment , and his subsequent engagement with the Wagner family.

Richard Wagner himself had been something of a polymath developing a grandiose and all encompassing vision of the function of music in society in the romantic idiom for which, with its belief in music as the supreme art form because of the romantic notion that it had direct access to the emotions. Wagner’s output was, musical, mythological (via the narrative content of his operas), “philosophical”, and political. There are a number of themes that can and have been used to explain Hitler’s adulation.

For example, Wagner had been a revolutionary, having …show more content…
More closely linked to the Russian Soviets, this government rounded up elite hostages, some of whom were shot, precipitating intervention by Weimar Republic President Ebert. On 3rd may, the Freikorps marched on Munich, crushing the fledgling independent state, and realigning it into the Weimar republic.
• The “Spartacist Uprising” in Berlin between January 4th and 15th 1919 was a populist uprising supported by the communist groups. Following a general strike and barricades in the streets, it was crushed by Freicorps sent in by Ebert, with the infamous summary execution of Rosa Luxembourg, her body thrown into a canal .
• The Kapp Putsch in March 1920 was precipitated by the attempt to disband one of the more active Freikorps groups, and was a right wing attempt to establish a more authoritarian regime planned in disaffected right wing and military circles for some months. General Luttwitz ordered the Freicorps to take over government buildings in Berlin. Defence Minister Noske’s instruction to the Reichweir to suppress the rebels was refused on the grounds that the German army could and should not fire upon the German people. The Government fled to Dresden, but was not supported there by Generalmajor Maercker and had to move on to Stuttgart, where it called for a general strike. This received wide support which crippled the newly declared Chancellor Kapp’s cabinet, and after clashes across the country, the two putsch leaders fled into exile
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