Cause of death Suicide Known for Nueva Germania | Name Bernhard Forster | |
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Born March 31, 1843 ( 1843-03-31 ) Delitzsch, Province of Saxony Role Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche's husband Died June 3, 1889, San Bernardino, Paraguay Spouse Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche (m. 1885–1889) Books Lesser Known Liberian Timber Species: Description of Physical and Mechanical Properties, Natural Durability, Treatability, Workability and Suggested Uses Similar People Elisabeth Forster‑Nietzsche, Max Liebermann von Sonn, Otto Bockel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Umberto Orsini | ||
Bernhard Forster (March 31, 1843 – June 3, 1889) was a German teacher. He was married to Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, the sister of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Biography
Forster became a leading figure in the anti-Semitic faction on the far right of German politics and wrote on the Jewish question, characterizing Jews as constituting a "parasite on the German body". In order to support his beliefs he set up the Deutscher Volksverein (German People's League) in 1881 with Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg.
He left Germany in 1886 to emigrate to Paraguay and the following year he set up a colony known as "Nueva Germania". However, as this initiative was a failure, he eventually committed suicide by poisoning himself with a combination of morphine and strychnine in his room at the Hotel del Lago in San Bernardino, Paraguay on June 3, 1889.