[Juenger-list] Global Civil War (Weltbuergerkrieg)

[mvk575b@tninet.se (Bertil Haggman)]

Recently I reread Ernst Juenger's Princeton letters during
the Vietnam War. The letters are from 1968-1969.

It led to my solution, at last, to the Weltbuergkrieg mystery.
Up until now I had failed to find the first mentioning
of the term in Juenger's writings.

First I would like to mention a reference in which I think
Ernst Juenger is not correct. In a letter of May 8, 1968,
he wrote:

"PS. Sie fragen nach dem Terminus "Weltbuergerkrieg".
Ich glaube, dass ich ihn im Jahre 1932 in meinem Buch
_Der Arbeiter_ zum ersten Mal Verwandt habe."

I tried _The Worker_ but could not find any reference to
the Global Civil War there. Has anybody reading _Der Arbeiter_
noticed the term there?

Think I have reconstructed what I think is the first use of =
Weltbuergkrieg=20
anywhere and am grateful for critical/non-critical remarks.

Just before Juenger was ordered to the Eastern Front he
visited Kirchorst and wrote in _Strahlungen I_ on November 10,
1942:

"Die Art der Anteilnahme, die ich in mir der zeitgenoessischen
Geschichte gegenueber beobachte, ist die eines Menschen,
der sich weniger in einen Weltkrieg als in einen Weltbuerger-
krieg verwickelt weiss. Bin deshalb in ganz andere Konflikte
als in jene der kaempfenden Nationalstaaten verknuepft.
Diese muessen nebenbei absolviert werden."

Then Juenger traveled to the East via Berlin, where he a few
days later visited Carl Schmitt November 12 - 16. There
is no mention of Weltbuergerkrieg in those notes but it is interesting =
that
the term is for the first time mentioned by Schmitt in a
lecture during the winter 1942/43 in Berlin. The text was
published as "Die letzte globale Linie" in Marine-Rundschau, 8/1943,
pp. 521-527.

Is there a connection to the meeting Juenger-Schmitt in Berlin=20
in November 1942 and the Schmitt use of the term in a lecture
a few months later?

Back to the Princeton Letters: "Der Weltbuergerkrieg ist neben
der Technik das Mittel, durch das die Gestalt des Arbeiters
sich realisiert. Das ist der Kern unserer Anstrengungen, die
uns im einzelnen oft sinnlos vorkommen."

This is in my opinion a very interest link between Weltbuergerkrieg -
Technik - Arbeiter in Ernst Juengers thinking.

With Juengerian wishes

Bertil