Hermann Ahlwardt

Hermann Ahlwardt (21 December 1846 – 16 April 1914) was a writer, a member of the Reichstag (German parliament) and a vehement antisemite.

After stealing money collected for a children's Christmas party in 1889, Ahlwardt was fired from his job as a primary school principal. He blamed his financial difficulties on Jewish money-lenders and wrote a book claiming the German government was in the pay of the Jewish banker, Gerson von Bleichröder. He was jailed for four months when it came to light that he had forged the documents he used to support the claim.

In 1892, Ahlwardt accused arms manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Co. of being in a Jewish-French conspiracy to sell defective rifles to the German army in order to weaken the country militarily and was sentenced to five months' imprisonment for this unfounded defamation but was not jailed because by this time he had been elected to the Reichstag. He had run in a by-election for a very rural Brandenberg district seat. World agriculture prices were depressed at the time and he had told this farming community that their troubles were due to the Jews. This is supposedly contradicted by news articles of the time that show the names of officers printed during his 1895 visit are not generally used by Jews, such as Cartright and O'Brien. Theodore Roosevelt, police commissioner at the time, confirmed in his autobiography that he deliberately assigned Jewish police to protect Ahlwardt, in order to ridicule him. In addition, there have been multiple Jewish families with the last name "O'Brien" and "Cartright".

Selected works The desperate struggle of the Aryan peoples with Judaism, 3 vols., 1890 Part 2: The oath of a Jew Part 3: Jewish tactics, at the same time answer to Mr. Ludwig Jacobowski Der Gipfel juedischer Frechheit - Das Gesetz ist todt - Es lebe Bleichroeder, 1891 The processes Manché and Bleichröder, 1892 The Jews and the Germans. A supplement to the Jews, 1892 The Great Prophet. A reminder and parting word to my anti-Semitic friends, 1892 The Jewish question. Lecture, 1892 Ottering, 1892 My arrest, 1892 As the Jew does, Lecture, 1892 The Treaty of Germany, 1913 Truths about a German mine in Bohemia. Rudolfstädter Erzbergbau-Gewerkschaft in České Budějovice. A reality novel of a modern kind with the usual accompaniments of suicide, madness and despair, 1913 More light! The assassination of Friedrich Schiller, Lessing and Mozart before the Forum of Modern Literary and World History, 1914 More light! The Order of Jesus in His True Form and in His Relations with Freemasonry and Judaism, 1919 Mehr Licht - Der Orden Jesu in seiner wahren Gestalt 1925 (published posthumously)