A Liberal Nationalist and Europe 1920-25. Ewald Ammende and his Idea of a Peaceful Continent.

Abstract

Ewald Ammende was a Baltic German businessman who championed the rights of national minorities in the 1920s. He helped set up the Verband der deutschen inderheiten in Europa, played a part in the achievement of cultural autonomy in Estonia and established the Congress of European Nationalities. Although in the 1930s his career went awry as a result of compromising with National Socialism, this paper looks at the intellectual and practical world he inhabited in the early part of the previous decade. The views he held at this time about how best to preserve peace and stability in Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals defined him as a 'liberal nationalist'.