Rune masters IV

Friedrich Marby

Friedrich Bernhard Marby (10 May 1882 – 3 December 1966) was a German rune occultist and Germanic revivalist. Father of usage of Rune postures, runic yoga. He is best known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes row. Marby was imprisoned during the Third Reich, which may have been due to a denunciation by Karl Maria Wiligut. According to the Odinist magazine Vor Trú, issue 69, Marby "was one of the most (if not the most) important figures in the realm of runic sciences" with an impact felt not only by contemporaries but "among today's researchers and practitioners."

Biography

Born in Aurich, Ostfriesland, Friedrich Marby was trained as a printer and served professionally as an editor. He developed a set of occult exercises he called "runic gymnastics" as a means of "channeling runic power and forms through and around the self". From 1924, he began publishing his theories and research.

There was a school of rune scholars who interpreted the Eddas completely in anti-Semitic fashion, but Alan Baker in his book Invisible Eagle singles out Marby as one of the exceptions. Marby, along with Siegfried Adolf Kummer, was criticized by name in a report made to Heinrich Himmler by his chief esoteric runologist, Karl Maria Wiligut. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke states that Wiligut censured them "for bringing the holy Aryan heritage into disrepute and ridicule", suggesting "this criticism may have led to Marby's harsh treatment in the Third Reich."

According to Vor Trú, Marby spent 8 years and 3 months in the camps at Flossenbürg, Welzheim, and Dachau before being released on 29 April 1945. He resumed publishing his magazine Forschung and Erfahung (Research and Experience) and books. He died in 1966.

Marby's "runic gymnastics" (Runengymnastik) was advocated as "Rune-Yoga" (also "Runic Yoga", "Stadhagaldr") by Stephen Flowers ("Edred Thorsson") from the 1980s.

Works

An den Quellwurzeln unseres Seins

Die aufschlußreiche Pendeluntersuchung

Der germanische Einweihungsweg in Sinnbildern und Symbolen

Die drei Schwäne

Der Weg zu den Müttern

Runenschrift

Runenwort

Runengymnastik

Siegfried Adolf Kummer

Siegfried Adolf Kummer (born 1899, date of death unknown) was a German mystic and Germanic revivalist. Father of the Rune Dance, the inspiration to all others, one of the first. He is also most well known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes row. He, along with Friedrich Bernhard Marby, were imprisoned during the Third Reich for being unauthorised occultists.

Biography

Little is known of his life or of his fate in the wake of the events of the Nazi era.

Kummer, along with Friedrich Bernhard Marby, were criticized by name in a report made to Heinrich Himmler by his chief esoteric runologist Karl Maria Wiligut. Goodrick-Clarke states that they were "censured by Wiligut in his capacity as Himmler's counsellor on magical and religious subjects for bringing the holy Aryan heritage into disrepute and riducule and this criticism may have led to Marby's harsh treatment in the Third Reich."  But what his fate was is unknown. At least one report has him fleeing Nazi Germany in exile to South America.

In 1927, Kummer founded a "runic school" called Runa, associated with the summer schoolBielatal Bärenstein of Georg and Alfred Richter. The runic exercises, comparable to the "runic gymnastics" of Marby, runic dancing and runic songs were taught. Kummer held that

"As a we now can receive various waves by means of a radio device, so the German by means of runic exercises and dances can regulate the influx of invisible ethereal cosmic waves. Those who dismiss this as impossible will never be able to detect thought waves, because they are in disharmony with the cosmic All, and are impeded by racially foreign blood."

Written works

Heilige Runenmacht (1932)

Runen-Magie(1933)

Runen - Raunen: Eine Sammlg eingesandter Berichte nach d. Runenkunden

Walhall

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