{{Short description|Austrian author}} {{notability|date=March 2018}} '''Josef Ludwig Reimer''' (1879–1955)<ref>Rainer Kipper (2002). ''Der Germanenmythos im Deutschen Kaiserreich: Formen und Funktionen historischer Selbstthematisierung''. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tV8Pe4Z7oSkC&q=Josef+Ludwig+Reimer+%281879%E2%80%931955%29&pg=PA330 p. 330].</ref> was an author from Austria who wrote on pan-German ideology in the first decade of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2M2xMV5MeuQC&pg=PA81|editor=George W. Stocking|title=Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|year=1996|volume=8|page=81|isbn=978-0-299-14554-5}}</ref> During a period of colonialism and nationalism, his books were ones of several advocating eastern expansion and ethnic cleansing of non-Germanic people including Slavs and Jews.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKpG-JCMrpQC&pg=PA29|title=Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide|editor1=Richard H. King|editor2=Dan Stone|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2007|page=29|isbn=978-1-84545-361-9}}</ref> Reimer also considered Latin America as one of the possible targets of the German economic exploitation. In his books Reimer extensively borrowed ideas of J.A. de Gobineau and H.S. Chamberlain applying these to the German case.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Textes d'histoire contemporaine |date=1983 |publisher=Presses universitaires de Bordeaux |others=M. Agostino |isbn=2-86781-001-9 |edition=1ère éd |location=[Bordeaux] |oclc=13544151}}</ref>
Notable works include ''Grundzüge deutscher Wiedergeburt'' (1906) and ''Ein pangermanisches Deutschland'' (1905).<ref>{{Citation |title=Le pangermanisme théorique |date=2019-11-28 |url=http://books.openedition.org/enseditions/13936 |work=Mussolini socialiste : littérature et religion : I. Anthologie de textes, 1900-1918 |pages=289–300 |editor-last=Lanfranchi |editor-first=Stéphanie |series=Gouvernement en question(s) |place=Lyon |publisher=ENS Éditions |isbn=979-10-362-0141-7 |access-date=2022-04-28 |editor2-last=Varcin |editor2-first=Élise}}</ref>
==See also== *Pan-German League *German Question *Lebensraum
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