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Harold Schmautz
from Tradition und Leben
"Working for the Impossible: Is a New German Monarchy Thinkable?"
Synopsis
Germans have never been consulted about their constitution, nor has there ever been a referendum on the question of whether the country should be a republic or a constitutional monarchy.
The thesis presented and discussed deals with the accusation that monarchists have been the greatest enemies of the return of a monarchical head of state. There have always been monarchists in Germany and until the early 1990s even in the Bundestag, but in the public opinion the change from a republic to a monarchy is a non-issue.
At present many Germans are dissatisfied with situation in the country. But the dissatisfaction isn't directed against the constitution, but against the political parties.
Germans are averse to change. The paper deals with the options German monarchists have and with the problems they face internally as well as with the public.
Harald Schmautz was Chairman of the German monarchist organisation Tradition und Leben (Tradition and Life) from 1984 to 1988.
Two of Harold Schmautz' papers can be read on this page:
Conference paper: Working for the Impossible: Is A German Monarchy Thinkable?
How to Organise a Monarchist Organisation
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