The memorial was the idea of Zehlendorf's mayor, Walter Helfenstein (1890–1945), and the work of Arthur Wellmann (1885–1960). The memorial was melted down in 1943 to make armaments for the war. Works A believer in the absolute superiority of the Aryan race, Fritsch was upset by the changes brought on by rapid industrialization and urbanization, and called for a return to the traditional peasant values and customs of the distant past, which he believed exemplified the essence of the Volk. In 1893, Fritsch published his most famous work, The Handbook of the Jewish Question which leveled a number of conspiratorial charges at European Jews and called upon Germans to refrain from intermingling with them. Vastly popular, the book was read by millions and was in its 49th edition by 1944 (330,000 copies). The ideas espoused by the work greatly influenced Hitler and the Nazis during their rise to power after World War I. Fritsch also founded an anti-semitic journal – the Hammer – in 1902, and this became the basis of a movement, the Reichshammerbund, in 1912. Fritsch was an opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. He published Einsteins Truglehre (Einstein's Fraudulent Teachings), in 1921 under the pseudonym F. Roderich-Stoltheim (an anagram of his full name). Another work, The Riddle of the Jew's Success, was published in English in 1927 under the pseudonym F. Roderich-Stoltheim. References Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1985: The Occult Roots of Nazism'', pp. 123–126. External links Antisemiten-Katechismus by Theodore Fritsch at archive.org 1852 births 1933 deaths German political scientists German Protestants German Reform Party politicians German Völkisch Freedom Party politicians National Socialist Freedom Movement politicians Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic People from Nordsachsen People from the Province of Saxony Relativity critics