Against the Wind: Eberhard Arnold and the Bruderhof - Plough

Against the Wind
2 German name: Gemeinschafts-Verlag Eberhard Arnold. The first reference to this name change is in
a letter Eberhard wrote to Leonhard Ragaz, November 28, 1922, BA. In their “greeting to members
of the Neuwerk Publishing House and to coworkers and readers of our periodical” (Das Neue Werk,
Sept.15, 1922, no. 6, 248), Eberhard and Else von Hollander were still referring to the “Sannerz-Verlag
bei Eberhard Arnold” [Sannerz Publishing House with Eberhard Arnold].
3 German name: Eberhard Arnold Verlag, Sannerz und Leipzig. Gertrud Dalgas states that the change
of name coincided with the introduction of the Renten-Mark (stabilized currency, introduced to curb
the gross inflation) in the fall of 1924; cf. Gertrud Dalgas, Eberhard Arnold’s Wirksamkeit als Verleger
und Christ [Eberhard Arnolds acivity as a publisher and a Christian], unpublished manuscript, BA.
(However, the first edition of Sonnenlieder, published in 1924, still bore the publishing house’s old
imprint.)
4 German titles: Max Bürck, Vom Staatskirchentum zur Menschheitsreligion; Julius Goldstein, Rasse
und Politik; Eugen Jäckh, Blumhardt-Auswahlbuch; Eberhard Arnold, Liebesleben und Liebe; (for
Schloss’s and Herpel’s books, cf. chap. 9, n. 7). 222
5 Eberhard Arnold to Normann Körber, August 4, 1921, BA.
6 Eberhard Arnold to Gertrud Dalgas, July 17, 1922, BA.
7 Ibid.
8 In 1926 in reply to Baron Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern, head of the Fulda district administration; cf.
von Gagern in Eberhard Arnold: Aus seinem Leben und Schrifttum, 42.
9 September 9, 1935, quoted by Emmy Arnold, Gegen den Strom, 68f.
10 The periodical adopted the modified name in October 1922.
11 Gertrud Dalgas recorded a remark from Emmy that gives an indication of how serious the temptation
was: “I would like to go to Jesus, together with Eberhard.”
12 The picture of the sun is central in this poem too:
Who grasps the lightning, holds the sun?
The lightning kindles, the sun flames forth.
It appears that during Eberhard’s stay in Bilthoven in July 1922 – before the crisis broke out – he had
already been meditating on the essence of light and on the imagery in the prologue to John’s Gosel
( John 1:1–18); cf. Eberhard Arnold to Gertrud Dalgas, July 17, 1922, BA.
13 Johann Christoph Blumhardt: 1805–1880.
14 Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt: 1842–1919.
15 Cf. chap. 5, Hermann Kutter and the Social Issue.
16 Cf. chap. 7, Can a Christian be a Police Officer?
17 Eugen Jäckh to Eberhard Arnold, August 18, 1921, BA.
18 German title: Blumhardt: Vom Reich Gottes.
19 Johannes Harder, Aufbruch ohne Ende: Geschichten meines Lebens [Always on the move: stories from
my life] (Wuppertal, Germany: Gudrun Harder und Hermann Horn, 1992), 103.
20 Cf. Gertrud Dalgas, Entscheidende Schritte 1919 –1935 [Decisive steps 1919–1935], unpublished
chronology, BA; cf. Emmy Arnold, Gegen den Strom, 54.