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About Paul Weyland
- Paul Wilhelm Gustav Weyland (20 January 1888, Berlin – 6 December 1972, Bad Pyrmont) was the anti-semitic leader of the Anti Einstein League.In 1919 Weyland published the novel Hie Kreuz - hie Triglaff (The Cross against the Triglav), which gives a chauvinistic account of the historical events of the tenth century A.D.
- in Pomerania.
- It ends with an open allusion to the contemporary conflicts between Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia.
- A second book Der Tanz als kulturelles Ausdrucksmittel (Dancing as an expression of culture) was promised, with a chapter on modern dance as a sign of cultural decline.
- However this book never appeared and Weyland was to move on to scientific theory.Weyland was a key figure involved in organising an anti-semitic campaign against relativity.
- In August 1920 he organised a mass meeting at the Berliner Philharmonie to contest Einstein's theory of relativity.
- After ensuring the meeting had been well-advertised in the newspapers, Weyland delivered a vituperative attack on Einstein, described as "with heavy artillery" in one newspaper.
- This attack consisted primarily of unsubstantial insults against the theory of relativity alongside claims that it was promoted by a "the clique of [Einstein's] academic supporters".
- Weyland claimed that the theory constituted a form of hypnotic mass suggestion and Jewish arrogance, which was a product of an unsettling spiritually chaotic period and that it amongst other repellent ideas it was poisoning of German thought.
- It was this speech which culminated in the statement: "Relativity theory is scientific Dadaism".He was later granted American citizenship.
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