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Michael Hagemeister (born 9 January 1951 in Ellwangen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German historian and Slavist, an authority on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion[1]: 1619 [2]: 9  and on Sergei Nilus.[3]

Hagemeister was employed at the universities of Marburg, Bochum, Basel, Innsbruck, Frankfurt (Oder) (Viadrina European University), and Berlin. Hagemeister served as researcher at the Department of History of the University of Basel [4] and as temporary professor at the Department of History of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and at the Department of East European History at Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder).[5]

Hagemeister wrote his doctoral thesis on the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov (1829–1903).[6] In his current research he concentrates on the origins and early history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the life and work of the Russian religious and apocalyptic writer Sergei Nilus (1862–1929).

Research on the Protocols

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in the Russian Empire in 1903, is a notorious forgery that pretends to detail a long-term Jewish plan for world domination.[7] The origins of the document are shrouded in mystery and many theories have been proposed.[8]: 43-61  The theory that had received the most support until recently was presented at the Berne Trial of 1933–1935, in which two Jewish organizations sued the Swiss distributors of the Protocols.[8]: 43-61  The plaintiffs invited witnesses who testified that the Protocols was originally written in France in the late 1890s by agents of the Russian secret police and later translated into Russian.[8]: 43-61  According to their version, the main perpetrators were police commander Pyotr Rachkovsky and his unsavoury collaborator Matvei Golovinski.[8]: 43-61  This account became generally accepted following the publication of Norman Cohn's Warrant for Genocide in 1966, which added many details to it.[8]: 43-61 [9]

Hagemeister's research into the origins of the Protocols led him to discount both the French origin of the document and the involvement of the Russian secret police. He discovered that the chief witness for the prosecution at the Berne trial had demanded a large sum of money in advance and that the plaintiffs themselves considered him highly suspect.[10] His historical research supports the textual analysis of Cesare G. De Michelis, who concluded that the forgery was originally written in Russian in 1902–3 by unknown person(s). [7] Among the experts who have accepted Hagemeister's theory is Richard S. Levy, who called him "the leading authority on this subject".[8]: 43-61 

Publications

References

  1. ^ Stackelberg, Roderick (2006-12-01). "Book Review: The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945". The American Historical Review. 111 (5): 1618–1619. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.5.1618. ISSN 0002-8762.
  2. ^ Kellogg, Michael (2005). The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44299-2.
  3. ^ Price, Richard (2011). "The Canonization of Serafim of Sarov: Piety, Prophecy and Politics in Late Imperial Russia". Studies in Church History. 47: 346–364. doi:10.1017/S0424208400001078. ISSN 2059-0644. S2CID 150771930.
  4. ^ Faculty page, University of Basel
  5. ^ "Curriculum Vitae,Faculty Page, Ruhr-Universität Bochum". www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  6. ^ Stolovich, L. N. (1992-04-01). "Michael Hagemeister. Nikolaj Fedorov. Studien zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung". Russian Studies in Philosophy. 30 (4): 77–82. doi:10.2753/RSP1061-1967300477. ISSN 1061-1967.
  7. ^ a b Cesare G. De Michelis (2004). The Non-Existent Manuscript: a Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion. Studies in Antisemitism Series. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-1727-0.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Richard S. Levy (2014). "Setting the Record Straight Regarding the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Fool's Errand?". In William Collins Donahue; Martha B. Helfer (eds.). Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. Vol. 2. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 43–61.
  9. ^ Norman Cohn (1966). Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Harper & Row.
  10. ^ Michael Hagemeister (2009). Jan Goldstein (ed.). "Russian Émigrés in the Bern Trial of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1933–1935)" (PDF). Cahiers Parisiens. 5: 375–391.

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