Recovering Germany’s Conservative Tradition – Matthias Oppermann

Recovering Germany’s Conservative Tradition – Matthias Oppermann

In 1927, the most successful attorney in Silesia published a book on conservatism that he knew would be immediately forgotten. Georg Quabbe informed his readers in the introduction that “conservative writings of some length” shared the fate of Johannes Brahms’s Wiegenlied. That lullaby was sung everywhere—except at cradles. Likewise, conservative books were read by some, “but not by conservatives or by those who might become conservatives.” He w…