Against the Wind: Eberhard Arnold and the Bruderhof - Plough

Against the Wind
order, peace, and safety.’” Gustav Landauer, “Zur Geschichte des Wortes Anarchie” [On the history of
the word anarchy] in Der Sozialist (May 15–June 6, 1909).
23 Eberhard Arnold to Hans Thelemann, February 18, 1920, BA.
24 Eberhard Arnold to Martin Buber, May 9, 1921, BA. The project could not be carried out due to
the terms of Landauer’s will and the fact that Landauer’s correspondence was widely scattered and
unedited.
25 In 1920 Otto Herpel’s Zinzendorf: Über Glauben und Leben [Zinzendorf: on faith and life] carried an
advertisement for the “forthcoming” book Gustav Landauer in seinen Briefen [Gustav Landauer in his
correspondence], which was to be published by Karl Josef Friedrich.
26 Eberhard Arnold to Karl Josef Friedrich, November 8, 1920, BA.
27 A few years later Helmut von Mücke became leader of the NSDAP, the National Socialist German
Workers’ party, in Saxony. 220
28 Eberhard Arnold to Otto Herpel, April 1, 1920, BA; cf. Eberhard Arnold to Friedrich Kleemann, March
17, 1920, BA.
29 German title: “Das Geheimnis der Urgemeinde,” printed in Das Neue Werk, no. 20–21, 160.
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1 Eberhard Arnold to Dr. Pfleiderer, June 13, 1920, BA.
2 Cf. Else von Hollander, Sonnherz-Buch [Sunheart book], unpublished manuscript, recording the
communal life in notes and sketches, from the beginnings at Sannerz until the move to the Rhön, BA.
3 E.g., Eberhard Arnold to Heinrich Euler, November 9, 1920, BA; Eberhard Arnold to F.W. Cordes,
November 12, 1920, BA.
4 Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster: 1869–1966. In 1916 Eberhard obtained Foerster’s services as an author for
the Furche Publishing House, but Eberhard had probably known of his writings earlier. He maintained a
friendly relationship with the well-known educator for almost twenty years.
5 Alfred Dedo Müller to Eberhard Arnold, March 31, 1920, BA.
6 Eberhard Arnold to Otto Herpel, April 1, 1920, BA. In September 1921 a secial issue of Das Neue
Werk came out as a “Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster issue.”
7 German titles: Otto Herpel, Zinzendorf: Über Glauben und Leben [Zinzendorf: on faith and life];
Georg Flemmig, Dorfgedanken [Village musings]; Fritz Schloss, Legenden [Legends]; Eberhard Arnold
and Normann Körber, Junge Saat: Lebensbuch einer Jugendbewegung [Young seed: book of a youth
movement’s life].
8 Eberhard Arnold to Peter Bultmann, October 5, 1920, BA.
9 Eberhard Arnold to Eva Oehlke, September 20, 1920, BA.
10 Otto Herpel to Lydia Eger, November 6, 1920, BA.
11 Eberhard Arnold to auditor Pucks, November 23, 1920, BA.
12 Friedrich Berber, Zwischen Macht und Gewissen [Between power and conscience] (Munich: 1986),
31f.
13 Thomas von Stieglitz’s judgment (cf. Kirche als Bruderschaft, 148) is not tenable when he states that
after the Inselsberg conference in 1919 Eberhard turned away from evangelizing and replaced the