Karlheinz Weißmann (born 1959 in Northeim, WestGermany) is a German historian, author and intellectual of theNew Right (Neue Rechte). He is co-founder and publisher of New Right magazine "Cato".
Weißmann studiedProtestant theology, pedagogics and history at theUniversity of Gottingen and at the Technical University in Braunschweig. In Gottingen and Braunschweig he became member of the Hochschulgilden ofDeutsche Gildenschaft. In 1989 graduated with a Ph.D. from the history department inBraunschweig. Subsequently, he worked as a high school teacher from 1984 until 2020 at aGymnasium inNortheim, Lower Saxony.
Weißmann has published more than twenty books on historical and political subject. Some of his books deal with German and European political and intellectual history in the 19th and 20th century, notably the „Conservative Revolution“ movement during theWeimar Republic and National Socialism and related movements. Lately, he has published a book onMartin Luther and a book on what he described as "culture war" since 1968.
In 1994 he took part in a debate with leading conservative German intellectuals under the motto “What’s right?” in theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Weißmann’s contribution was entitled “Die Nation denken” (Thinking the Nation) with a subtitle “We are no conspirators”. In the same year he was one of the authors of the book “Die selbstbewußte Nation” (The Selfconscious Nation) which triggered a national debate in Germany.[1][2]Since the 1990s he is considered one of the leading, however controversial right-wing authors. He has long sought to help establish a political movement to the right of the Christian Democrats (CDU).
Karlheinz Weißmann and Götz Kubitschek founded thethink tank "Institut für Staatspolitik" in 2000. Later he got odds to Kubitschek about the question, "how revisionistic and how reactionary to be" (Süddeutsche Zeitung).[3] Weißmann is a writer for newspaper and journals of the political far-right, mainly the weeklyJunge Freiheit. In 2017 he was co-founder of the bimonthly journalCato, an outcast of Junge Freiheit.[3]
He is member of the advisory board of theDesiderius Erasmus Stiftung, a foundation associated with theAlternative for Germany party.
The left liberal daily newspaperDie Tageszeitung has called Weißmann in 2017 disparagingly “The Uber-Intellectual” of the German right.[4]
