Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg

Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg (Фёдор Викторович Винберг), 27.06.1868-14.02.1927, was primarily responsible for the publication of the first German language edition of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". He was a friend and colleague of Piotr Shabelsky-Bork, with whom he collaborated and founded a yearbook, Luch Sveta (meaning "A Ray of Light"). The complete text of the 1911 edition of Sergei Nilus' book, "The Great in the Small", was published in the third issue of this periodical (May 1920).

Vinberg was an ideological influence on the Nazi theoretician Alfred Rosenberg, who in turn influenced Adolf Hitler. Large parts of Rosenberg's magnum opus were lifted from Vinberg's writings. He was also a collaborator of Leslie Fry, with whom he co-authored the 1922 German imprint of the "The Protocols".

Life & Work

A Russian German born in Kiev, Vinberg rose to the rank of colonel in the Imperial Horse Guards. In the years before World War I, he became involved in extreme right-wing politics, writing for Black Hundred publications. After the February Revolution in 1917, he was imprisoned for his role in a plot to overthrow the provisional government. Later he found his way to Germany, where he developed his ideas in a number of writings, notably his ‘Berlin letters’ of 1919 published in Luch Sveta.

Vinberg was a loyal Russian monarchist with an aristocratic contempt for the masses. He called for "Aryan peoples" to unite against the "Jewish plan for world domination".

Walter Laqueur describes his ideas as "a half-way house between the old Black Hundred and National Socialism". Vinberg distinguished two kinds of anti-semitism: the "higher", concerned with restrictive laws against the Jews, and the "lower", the brutal and homicidal behaviour of the lower classes, which was terrible but essential if the Jewish menace, recently responsible for communist revolution, is finally to be laid to rest. Their task would be the complete annihilation of the Jews. He thus foreshadowed the Nazis' Final Solution.

ource

Walter Laqueur- "Russia and Germany; A Century of Conflict", London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1965 pp 114-18

Works

*Akhad-Kham, Asher Gint︠s︡berg.:"Taĭnyĭ vozhdʹ īudeĭskīĭ.: Perevod s frantsuzskago": [of Miss L. Fry by Th. Vinberg, being an attempt to prove:the "Protokoly Sīonskikh Mudret︠s︡ov":published in a work by S. A. Nilus:to be a work by U. Ginzberg] .:by Leslie Fry; Thedor Viktorovich Vinberg Berlin, 1922.:OCLC: 84780936
* Krestny Put (Via Dolorosa)- 1921

References

*L'Apocalypse de notre temps; les dessous de la propagande allemande d'après des documents inédits:by Henri Rollin:(Paris: Gallimard, 1939):pp. 153 seq.

*L'Apocalypse de notre temps: les dessous de la propagande allemande d’après des documents inédits:(Paris: Editions Allia, 1991):ISBN 2904235329

*Russia and Germany, A Century of Conflict:by Walter Laqueur:(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965):pp.109 seq.

*Warrant for Genocide:by Norman Cohn:(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967):pp. 90, 139-140, 155-156, 184

See also

*Adolf Hitler

*Alfred Rosenberg

*October Revolution

*Protocols of the Elders of Zion

External links

[http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/scr/kellogg.pdf Hitler’s “Russian” Connection: White Émigré Influence on the Genesis of Nazi Ideology, 1917-1923]