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At the beginning of the thirties, Drucker was no longer content with the role of chronicler and - although an Austrian citizen - he began to actively take part in German politics: he became involved with the "Volkskonservative Vereinigung" (People's Conservative Union) around the former submarine captain Treviranus, who had been a hero of the First World War and a minister in Brüning's cabinet. The "Volkskonservative Vereinigung" had come into being in 1929, when some representatives split off from the "Deutschnationale Volkspartei" ("German National People's Party").
Drucker supposes in retrospect that the founding of the "Volkskonservative Vereinigung" went back to an initiative of Konrad Adenauer, who thereby wanted to strengthen the moderate and democratic right and to create a political power that would appeal especially to Protestant voters. At that time, Bismarck's "Kulturkampf" was still having effects and made it difficult for many, especially for northern German conservatives, to vote for the Catholic centre. Through Gustav Stolper, who was also born in Austria and was publisher of the weekly newspaper "Der Deutsche Volkswirt" (" The German Economist"), Drucker joined the "Volkskonservative Union", whose youth leader he subsequently became. "The only problem was that there was no youth," Drucker remarks today self-ironically on the lack of political success of the "People's Conservatives." >> Encounter with Carl Schmitt |
