English Translation

As far as the new German mining law as the basic law of these squire cooperatives and other hut and guild orders were concerned, the German Landsknechtsfähnchen, however, rejected the Turks in the east and the French in the west and showed the image of the defensive "Haufens", to which the coat of arms of the empire stood in the flag cloth. The young Martin Luther is also part of this tremendous awakening of popular thinking and creativity. He is on a front with all the peers from the ranks of the artists who struggle to reflect on the roots of the German essence. But also the imperial knighthood and the royal merchants in Lübeck and Augsburg, who demanded the political new building of the whole empire, are also outraged against the tyranny of the papal church and against the disintegration of the empire by the alien idea of the princely state. This German departure has achieved lasting successes in many areas of European spirit and activity. His messengers have bridged with the merchants deep into the East and beyond Spain to the new continent America and built new bases, in the same way the Nordic countries connected with Italy. Emperor Maximilian I, who was close to these artists and thinkers, had seen his origins and ancestors in the circle of the great Germanic army kings and mythical figures, how the ore figures of the wake of his Innsbruck tomb prove impressive. But the Spanish Habsburger Karl V, who was raised in the Netherlands, his grandson, did not recognize this German departure as an emperor and therefore did not take over as a creative force. This has become one of the tragic German fates, and among them the political seed of these first decades after 1500 had to wither in the state field. But the germination of this whole German departure was so elementary in its entirety that it remained alive in the art and buildings throughout the centuries and continues to work in the mind today. KurtOberdorffer lichts is a state without a people, a soul-lofe runstwerk, nothing is a people without a state, a bodyless, airy scheme, like the world-flesh gypsies and Jews. State and people in one give only a naughtyness, and its preservation power remains the popularity. eutschland, when it develops in agreement with itself, as a German community, its monstrous never used forces, can once be the founder of eternal peace in Europe, the shooting angel of humanity. FRIEDRICH LUDDIG JAHN 13