Against the Wind: Eberhard Arnold and the Bruderhof - Plough

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ChaptEr ElEvEn Against the Wind 1 Wegwarte is the German name of a small blue wildflower, also known as “bride of the sun,” and introduced in North America as chicory. Some sources translate the magazine’s name as Wayside Flower. 2 Eberhard Arnold to Adolf Braun, April 26, 1924, BA. 3 Quoted from Eberhard’s “Die Lebensgemeinschaft und die Zukunft der Arbeit” [Community life and the future of our work], unpublished manuscript, (1921–1922), BA. 4 In a letter from the Neuwerk Sunheart Community to the “werdende Gemeinde” of Neusonnefeld, August 24, 1924, BA. “Our community household feels that its fundamental vocation is to work for the nascent community church.” 5 Report about the work at Sannerz, Easter 1925, Geschichtsband, vol. IV, bk. 3, no. 34. 6 The quoted text is from Eberhard’s article “Warum wir in Gemeinschaft leben,”Die Wegwarte, no. 10/11 (1925). English edition Why We Live in Community (Farmington, PA: The Plough Publishing House, 1995). In October 1925 Eberhard wrote a note in which he referred to the necessary reverence for Gemeinde and its members. Geschichtsband, vol. IV, bk. 3, no. 49. 7 Eberhard Arnold, “Die Lebensgemeinschaft und die Zukunft der Arbeit.” 8 Eberhard Arnold to the Habertshof cooperative, February 1922, BA. 9 E.g., Hans Brandenburg, in Die Brücke zu Köngen [The bridge to Köngen] (Stuttgart: 1969), 76, said that “it was hardly possible to find compatibility between Wilhelm Hauer’s personality and Eberhard Arnold’s characeristics.” Wilhelm Hauer was leader of a Köngen youth group. 10 For a brief explanation of the origins of the Free German Youth and its role in the Youth Movement context, cf. chap. 7, n. 1. 11 Eberhard Arnold to Ludwig von Gerdtell, September 7, 1920, BA. 12 For a discussion of the 1913 Hohe Meissner conference, cf. chap. 7, Youth on the Move and related notes. 13 Eberhard was referring to the discussion between Hermann Schafft and the Communist party functionary August Wittvogel at the Meissner conference; cf. Normann Körber, “Kampf um die Schlüchterner Jugend” [Fight for the Schlüchtern youth] in Hermann Schafft: ein Lebenswerk [Life and work of Hermann Schafft], 62ff. In communist terminology, the “last battle” (or “fight”) refers to the final overthrow of capitalism. 14 “Der Ruf an uns” [The challenge to us], leaflet, October 1923, in Geschichtsband, vol. IV, bk. 3, no. 2. 15 Eberhard Arnold to Ludwig von Gerdtell, op. cit. 16 “A Christian movement that gives a united witness to Christ is not to be found here; neither is an honoring of men, which directly opposes him,”wrote Eberhard in “Die religiöse Welle in der freideutschen Bewegung” [The religious upsurge in the Free German movement], unpublished manuscript (1923), BA. 17 Hans Joachim Schoeps (Rückblicke, 45) wrote, “A large part of us in the Free German Union consciously represented a liberal humanist attitude alongside and in contradiction to Eberhard Arnold. And we got on together very well. There was a great and generous spirit of mutual resect because anything narrow and sectarian was completely foreign to Arnold.” 18 “Die religiöse Welle in der freideutschen Bewegung,” op. cit. 19 According to Hans Joachim Schoeps’s account (Rückblicke, 45): “When there were powers that opposed the Holy Spirit, powers that he sensed as coming from the world of demons, these had to be conquered. 224
Against the Wind It once happened to me, when out of some dark instinct I set myself against the spirit of Sannerz and made a cynical remark, that Eberhard Arnold took thorough measures to drive out the demons from me.” 20 Eberhard Arnold to the Evangelical booksellers, April 1926, BA. 21 Including apparently opposed witnesses in the project was part of the concept; cf. flyer from the Hochweg Publishing House in 1925. “Our ‘Living Library’ has its origin in the faith…that in the whole church the whole truth is at work. From this truth, the light of God breaks into the most varied, often humanly opposed, groups that have very clear and objective differences between them.” 22 German title: Die ersten Christen nach dem Tode der Apostel. The 1998 English edition from The Plough Publishing House carries the title The Early Christians: In Their Own Words. 23 It read as follows: “The editor must express the deepest gratitude to his father. Over the years it becomes ever plainer to him how much he owes to his father’s books, to his guidance in church history, his 225 comprehensive scholarship, and his biblical and church orientation.” 24 The search for writings began with a letter to the Mennonite Publishing House in Altona, in which Eberhard asked for a collection of sixteenth-century Anabaptist songs, April 17, 1923, BA. 25 Cf. “Warum wir in Gemeinschaft leben,” op. cit. 26 Ibid. 27 Eberhard Arnold to Fred Sicora, January 6, 1926, BA. 28 Eberhard Arnold to Else von Hollander, February 20, 1926, BA: “The Free Germans in Hamburg, whom I love very much, suggest the following name, which according to the ordnance map applies to the hill where the hof is situated: Bruderhof Botenberg [Bruderhof messenger hill]. We should become messengers for the message from the Bruderhof.” 29 Emy-Margret Arnold, Kindheitserinnerungen, 54. 30 Quoted by Emmy Arnold, Gegen den Strom, 85. ChaptEr twElvE 1 Hans-Joachim Schoeps, Rückblicke. 2 “Der Augenblick” [The moment], plans for 1929-1930. These handwritten notes were undoubtedly made at the beginning of 1929. Geschichtsband, vol. V, no. 52a. Regarding the “open door” principle, cf. transcript of brotherhood meeting, August 11, 1929, BA. 3 Transcript of a discussion on January 17, 1932, BA. Here Eberhard refers to an admonition from Else Baehr during his student days in Halle: “If you don’t have the humility to accept money for the Lord’s service, then you cannot become a disciple.” 4 In Gegen den Strom Emmy gives a striking description of the Bruderhof diet: just potatoes and plenty of sauerkraut. 5 “Erinnerungen an Eberhard Arnold” [Memories of Eberhard Arnold], tape transcript from June 16, 1993, BA. 6 Cf. “Unser Weg zur Erziehung,” Die Wegwarte (1927). 7 Cf. chap. 10, Children’s Community. 8 “Der Kampf um die Kindheit” [The fight for childhood], Die Wegwarte (1928).
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Contents—iv Foreword—ix Preface
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Mapping Out Inner Land 14 —61 Aga
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